niall_227
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Hi, I have a great passion for keeping tropical fish.
It started out 2 years ago when I was 14, I got a small 40L tank, I had many tetras, bottom dwellers and I had a pair of A.cacatoides. They were what I called my show pair of fish. About a year later I upgraded to a 180L tank which I moved my fish. I tried to keep the same community although my cacs spawned twice in there before the male died of old age. In that tank I have since kept and grown on discus and at the moment I have got some geophagus.
Just this year I was thinking of how much I enjoyed keeping my apistogramma and decided to purchase a second tank, this one is 160L and I decided I was going to give breeding apistogramma a go. Which brings me to now; once I had established my new tank and got everything perfect for the apistos I went in and bought 2 males and 4 females. Just 3 days later I watched intriguingly as the female enticed the male into a tiny clay pot that I have. I watched as the female prepared the top of the pot and then turn upside down laying eggs one by one. On the downside to this though is that the male ate the eggs one by one. This was quite disappointing. 1 week later after feeding them live daphnia and bloodworms twice I feel that another female is showing her colours and showing the same behaviours as the previous ready female. This was today, and I decided to look up about the male eating the eggs which is where I found this great website. I would appreciate any type of feedback or advice on the matter.
I would also like to mention that every picture I take of my fish I put in an online photo stream. Im sorry if any of them are blurred, all photos are taken from my phone, just click on one to enlarge it and then it is a little better quality. Take a look!
http://doiop.com/niall.fish
It started out 2 years ago when I was 14, I got a small 40L tank, I had many tetras, bottom dwellers and I had a pair of A.cacatoides. They were what I called my show pair of fish. About a year later I upgraded to a 180L tank which I moved my fish. I tried to keep the same community although my cacs spawned twice in there before the male died of old age. In that tank I have since kept and grown on discus and at the moment I have got some geophagus.
Just this year I was thinking of how much I enjoyed keeping my apistogramma and decided to purchase a second tank, this one is 160L and I decided I was going to give breeding apistogramma a go. Which brings me to now; once I had established my new tank and got everything perfect for the apistos I went in and bought 2 males and 4 females. Just 3 days later I watched intriguingly as the female enticed the male into a tiny clay pot that I have. I watched as the female prepared the top of the pot and then turn upside down laying eggs one by one. On the downside to this though is that the male ate the eggs one by one. This was quite disappointing. 1 week later after feeding them live daphnia and bloodworms twice I feel that another female is showing her colours and showing the same behaviours as the previous ready female. This was today, and I decided to look up about the male eating the eggs which is where I found this great website. I would appreciate any type of feedback or advice on the matter.
I would also like to mention that every picture I take of my fish I put in an online photo stream. Im sorry if any of them are blurred, all photos are taken from my phone, just click on one to enlarge it and then it is a little better quality. Take a look!
http://doiop.com/niall.fish
