Baby Iniridea 3 months old

[koty]

My A. Iniridea are 3 monthes old. Grew in pure R/O with half grown ancistrus in a 45 liter aquarium with massive filtration

Feeding is based only on detritus from a gambisia inhabited aquarium situated in a sunny spot. You can see the green guk at the bottom:

Feeding twice dayly 10 ml. I had about 10 fish and now i can count 6.

Here are the fish. The center picture was taken during feeding:

 

[Apistomaster]

Hey Koty,
Those little guys grew pretty fast the way you handled them. I managed one pair from six A. iniridae I bought a few months back. I have them finally adapted to peat filtered RO water and 5.5 pH. They are set up in a bare botom 20H filled 2/3 full. I also have 12 Nannostomus mortonthaleri and 3 small Poecilocharax weitzmani with them. Furnished the tank with a half dozen each floating and sunken spawning mops, several pieces of Malaysian bogwood, Java Moss and a few small notched flower pots. I managed to not get a single snail in it.
The female was yellow before I moved her but they have only been in the tank about five days. The water is so hostile to life(other than the fish) that I have to use care when feeding live blackworms because they go into shock when they hit the water.
I'll take what I can get but I am trying to get the pencils and the iniridae to spawn. If I notice pencil eggs then I'll remove all the fish but I am hoping the A. iniridae spawn first and that I have the water to their liking. I also added several clumps of Alder cones to the tank. They seem to be pretty potent sources of the good brown stuff. Corydoras specialists have reported favorable reductions in the % of fungused eggs so I'm giving them a try as part of the blackwater tea formula.
I hope I end up with more A. iniridae than I started with. I really like them.
I put my four spare males in with My Heckel Discus tank and in there they come right out and lose the shyness they had in a smaller tank shared with some wild caught Corydoras panda.

 

[Lisachromis]

Interesting feeding method. Sure looks like it works well for you.