A Viejita Rio Meta free swimmers

[chris1932]

I put alot of patience into this pair because I like the pair so much. After fiddling with water quality, temp, and light cycle I have been rewarded with a big group of free swimmers. Mom took them for thier maiden swim on tuesday of this week. These pictures were taken at 5:00 today.

Hope everyone enjoys. By the way I never get response on breeding threads.

 

[bigbird]

congratulations, well done. The pictures look great and the whole team swimming together even better. I presume there are no other apistos or fish in this tank and that it is a pure breeding set up ?

Have a good day
cheers jan-kurt

 

[chris1932]

You are correct to assume that it is a breeding setup. The male is still with his female and off spring. If this pair was not so pretty they would have been down the road six months ago. I am glad I gave them a chance. I currently have 16 tanks dedicated to apistogramma pairs. Thank you for the comment

Chris

 

[Apistomaster]

Very nice family you have there, Chris.
You are getting good at breeding these Apistos aren't you?

Larry

 

[madattiver]

Congrats!! The pics look excellent too :wink:

 

[chris1932]

I am trying. Right now out of the 19 or so pairs I have the only two that have not reproduced are still too young. I really enjoy seeing the family aspect that these fish display. I have less problems getting the wild pairs to spawn than wild fish and that strikes me as strange. Bev N is doing a admirable job of breeding also. I have seen her room and fish. Its impressive. Dale is getting things set up really fast.

 

[Bev N]

Yes Larry he is getting very good at it. There are youngins in just about every tank of pairs he has. After visiting his fishroom I returned home to give long lectures to my pairs...bunch of freeloaders!

He has one super fish room and some really impressive fish. I like his set up for this breeding tanks so much I copied it exactly. Happy fish are productive fish!!


Bev

 

[javoski]

great family!
great photos!

 

[georgedv]

How about some pictures of those fish rooms. Other than myself, I don't know anyone else here in south carolina that keeps a fish room and be able to exchange ideas and tricks.

g

 

[chris1932]

I will take some pictures today and start a new thread.