Apistogramma agassizi 'blue'

[slimbolen99]

Like I said before, December is the month for Apisto spawning, I guess.

Got two wild pairs of Apistogramma agassizi 'blue' about a month ago. The dominant male promptly killed the other male.

I have the new trio setup in a 75 gallon aquarium with seven neon tetras as dithers. Lots and lots of leaf and driftwood cover, and about 1" of pool filter sand for substrate.

pH: 6.0 or lower (hopefully)
Temp: 76*F

The male had been courting one of the females for quite a while but nothing came of it...until one day about a week ago the female disappeared. Quite disgusted, and assuming the worst, I did a big water change thinking I might stir the corpse up.

The other day, however, discovered the female guarding about 75 or so tiny free swimming babies. For some reason, I don't have any pics of the male...I'll have to go down and see what I can get.

 

[slimbolen99]

Finally got downstairs and grabbed a few pictures, not very good ones, of the male A. agassizi 'blue'...

 

[Jonathan Aquari]

great pics. I was thinking about buy some, so now I will

 

[slimbolen99]

Thanks. I hope folks realize that even the wild type fish are amazing and pretty too. The male still hasn't even grown into colors yet.

Went downstairs a couple of days ago to do some work, and noticed it was like World War III in this tank. Took a peak, and discovered the second female had apparently spawned, and has free swimmers now as well. Gonna have to go oak leaf collecting today; there's not enough cover in this tank for two female Apistogramma agassizi's!

Second female Apistogramma agassizi 'blue' with fry:

First Apistogramma agassizi 'blue' female with fry (older fry)

 

[Jonathan Aquari]

do you keep them in strait RO or do you mix with tap

 

[Tom C]

....I hope folks realize that even the wild type fish are amazing and pretty too...

Nice fish, Slimbolen99!
But "...even the wild type.."?? In my eyes, domestically bred fish are nothing compared to the wild types:

A. agassizii Flamenco (Rio Tigre):

A. agassizii (Rio Ampiyacu)

A. agassizii (Rio Galvez)

A. agassizii (Rio Tahuayo)

A. agassizii Butterfly (Rio Tamshiyacu)

A. agassizii Pastel (Rio Tamshiyacu)

:biggrin:

 

[slimbolen99]

Absolutely Tom. I love your site and pictures of all the wild apistos. It is an inspiration. I'm fairly confident that there is not a "domestic" strain fish in my fish room.

 

[slimbolen99]

do you keep them in strait RO or do you mix with tap

Tap water treated with a pH down buffer, and filtered through peat moss for 48 hours before being added to the tank. No RO or RO/DI.
pH out of the tap is over 8.0
pH afterwards is in the neighborhood of 4.5
TDS = 572
PPM = 294
kH = 1*
gH = 8*

 

[DaRe]

Amazing apistos Tom! I'd love to keep a few of those :tongue:

Also the agassizii "blue" look fantastic! Where is this species in this list?
http://apisto.sites.no/page.aspx?PageId=118

 

[Mike Wise]

There is no listing because this is only a color morph of A. agassizii without a collecting location. My species list shows listings for different known populations. Not all of them represent different species.

 

[DaRe]

It's not the first time I've seen the term blue on wild agassizii. Has anyone been able to get some location info of this color variant?

 

[Mike Wise]

This is a color variant. The species is highly polychromatic. Virtually every population of A. agassizii will have some predominantly blue fish. A better question to ask is: does anyone know the location where this specific blue morph of A. agassizii is collected? The answer for now is 'no'.

 

[Gwendal]

I love agassizii, nice wild pics Tom!





1 saludo

 

[edwliang]

There is no listing because this is only a color morph of A. agassizii without a collecting location. My species list shows listings for different known populations. Not all of them represent different species.

mike, i want to know how come the spawned female sometimes has one black spot, sometimes two.

 

[Mike Wise]

A. agassizii females (and most other agassizii-complex species) have a reputation for showing 1, 2, or even 1 on one side and 2 on the other side lateral spots. It is just an oddity for these species.

 

[Jcwong]

Nice fish!

Congratulations on breeding them successfully!

 

[susanamck]

I recently purchased 2 wild females which we just labeled as wilds, under more investigation and lots of calls to the suppliers my lfs told me they were the blue strain collected from Rio nanay river in Peru. Don't know if this helps the ' where they are from question.


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