Id species (sold as Apistogramma sp. "Ipiranga")

[anewbie]

Sounds like typical apisto behavior to me.

I guess but some behave differently then others....

Looks like she only had 9 to 11 frys (which is similar to last 2 times); like the wolli she keeps them on the sponge filter (food i suppose) and she scoots off when i feed them bbs via a pipette -

This is very different to the kribs which will allow me to put my fingers next to the frys (i'm feeding them flakes now); or the e. lucaniusi which seems to bring the frys to the front for me to feed and take them away after i feed them.

In truth the africans (well kribs and el) seem more adaptive to new situations then a lot of the apisto. The n teugelsi less so.

Anyway as long as she keeps them on the sponge they are easy to feed as it is the back corner next to the glass and if a predator does show up they will just hope down between the glass and sponge where they can't be reached.

 

[anewbie]

I've had these for a bit over 2 years and they were young adults so at least 3 years old - some pictures of the adult male:

and 3 pictures of one of his f1 males (i was noticing some orange form on the tail and wanted to compare him to the adult):

In the aquarium he looks a little different but in the picture he is a splitting image of his father.

In truth the original male/female seem to be doing pretty well - the female spawned a month or two ago and other then looking at the calendar they seem to be aging quite well compare to the ladisalo. Also seem to be growing nicer looking as they get older (but i suppose that is an imho since you might disagree)
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I went back and tweaked the gamma to compensate for the phone compensation:

In the corrected images you can see the orange tips forming in the tail at the very end - which stand out a lot more in the aquarium.

 

[anewbie]

Hum turns out that i posted updated pictures a month ago so i'll just post one picture today - the f1 male from the first spawn is around 2/3 the size of the f0 male (both the f0 male and female are fine but the female is showing a bit of age) - he has a bit of lyre-tail with orange tip developing:

not sure where the orange is from - he looks nicer in the tank the phone is mucking a bit with the colour balance - the f0 male prefers he stays on the right - not exactly cramp as the tank is 48x16 (inch) so he has around 24x16 - he can wonder over the left but now and then he gets a nasty tail wag and knows it is time to head over. I think i have 2 males from first spawn and 1 from the 2nd (there has been 4 spawns i know about). There are several females in the mix at least 2 maybe more - bit difficult to tell because about 60% of the aquarium is 100% hidden from human view and the younger ones are pretty much free to roam the full area. I really have to adjust how i scape things so it is easier to find fishes.