Hi all! I've been a large fish guy for most of the time. Keeping stingrays and discus currently. However somehow managed to convince the wife that the home needs a 1.5 ft tank to be complete! Empty now, and very keen to keep apistos! Joining everyone here for research and hope to get my 1st pair in the very near future!
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Hello from Singapore
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Welcome! Can you tell us more about your discus and stingrays? Do you keep them together? Can you post pics? I also have discus.
Sure! I have a pair of p14, 10 discus, 10 yellow tailed congo tetras, a juvenile ghost knife fish, and 4 small plecos in a 6ft tank with 5ft sump in a cabinet.
I did this combo of fish after seeing a tank full of wild discus with stingrays. However, in hindsight I probably would not recommend it. Stingrays eat like pigs and discus take their time. I do find that I at times have to over feed the fish to ensure that all the discus have eaten well. Lost a few of the more timid and shy individuals as they simply were not eating enough. The stingrays cannot actually kill the discus, but you'll have lost scales and some lost fins on them from time to time. One of my discus actually lost an eye because the stingray ulcerated it's eye quite badly
I did this combo of fish after seeing a tank full of wild discus with stingrays. However, in hindsight I probably would not recommend it. Stingrays eat like pigs and discus take their time. I do find that I at times have to over feed the fish to ensure that all the discus have eaten well. Lost a few of the more timid and shy individuals as they simply were not eating enough. The stingrays cannot actually kill the discus, but you'll have lost scales and some lost fins on them from time to time. One of my discus actually lost an eye because the stingray ulcerated it's eye quite badly
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Thanks for posting the pic. I'll keep my discus without rays for now. My dream pond would be arrowanas and stingrays.
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Hi all,
Are Potamotrygon Rays all right in a tank without a sand substrate?
I've only ever seen them in the pond in the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew Gardens (it has a viewing window), where they seem to spend most of their time either buried or "blowing" the sand.
cheers Darrel
Are Potamotrygon Rays all right in a tank without a sand substrate?
I've only ever seen them in the pond in the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew Gardens (it has a viewing window), where they seem to spend most of their time either buried or "blowing" the sand.
cheers Darrel
Yes Darrel, they do very well without substrate and I know a lot of people who successfully bred them in bare tanks/ponds. My stingrays actually do the burying behavior even without substrate. I plan to do some enrichment for them by throwing a mini Kong toy stuffed with seafood
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Hello I'm from Singapore too and just signed up after lurking for ages.
I'm pretty new to apistos, and currently keep A. trifasciata, A. bitaeniata 'Tefe', and a dwarf Crenicichla from Venezuela (not sure about species, looks like what Glaser sells as C. cf regani 'Orinoco').
Mun, if you would like to try your hand at raising some trifasciata fry/juves I've got some month-old ones eating baby brine shrimp and grindal worms to rehome. They're in a 90x40x40 cm colony tank and the parents don't have good spawns when the tank is crowded, so I pass the fry/juveniles to people who are willing to put in the effort to grow them out. Their water parameters are pretty close to tapwater - pH around 7, TDS 200-250, a little on the cold side for Singapore because it's 'outdoors' (in a HDB flat corridor).
I'm in Hougang - we can arrange something. nine435 zero130
Cheers
I'm pretty new to apistos, and currently keep A. trifasciata, A. bitaeniata 'Tefe', and a dwarf Crenicichla from Venezuela (not sure about species, looks like what Glaser sells as C. cf regani 'Orinoco').
Mun, if you would like to try your hand at raising some trifasciata fry/juves I've got some month-old ones eating baby brine shrimp and grindal worms to rehome. They're in a 90x40x40 cm colony tank and the parents don't have good spawns when the tank is crowded, so I pass the fry/juveniles to people who are willing to put in the effort to grow them out. Their water parameters are pretty close to tapwater - pH around 7, TDS 200-250, a little on the cold side for Singapore because it's 'outdoors' (in a HDB flat corridor).
I'm in Hougang - we can arrange something. nine435 zero130
Cheers
Hello I'm from Singapore too and just signed up after lurking for ages.
I'm pretty new to apistos, and currently keep A. trifasciata, A. bitaeniata 'Tefe', and a dwarf Crenicichla from Venezuela (not sure about species, looks like what Glaser sells as C. cf regani 'Orinoco').
Mun, if you would like to try your hand at raising some trifasciata fry/juves I've got some month-old ones eating baby brine shrimp and grindal worms to rehome. They're in a 90x40x40 cm colony tank and the parents don't have good spawns when the tank is crowded, so I pass the fry/juveniles to people who are willing to put in the effort to grow them out. Their water parameters are pretty close to tapwater - pH around 7, TDS 200-250, a little on the cold side for Singapore because it's 'outdoors' (in a HDB flat corridor).
I'm in Hougang - we can arrange something. nine435 zero130
Cheers
Hi Boofeng! Thank you for the generous offer! However I haven't got a spare tank for the juvenile trifasciata, although it would have been a wise choice to get experienced with them! However please feel free to keep in touch!
I'm located in Clementi.
