New to Apistos.

[Buccal]

I won a breeding pair of F1 Apistogramma affini Cruzi from an auction last week and I put them in my tank I had setup for growing up Jack Dempsey cichlids (all gone now). I want to make a proper tank for them so I've came to this forum.

I wanted to use a combination of moss, driftwood, indian almond leaves, ferns, anubias and other low light plants for my ~10-15g setup.

Regarding substrates I have some left over Amazonia/Africana. I have experience with plants, fish and shrimps. Is there another one I can use? Or maybe I can use the ADA soil as a bottom layer as they crumble over time if actively "sifted" through which the apistos are known to do.

What TDS do people recommend? Ive seen anywhere from 50-200.

For tank mates could I use some otos, cories and amano shrimps?

Thanks for the help.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

I wanted to use a combination of moss, driftwood, indian almond leaves, ferns, anubias and other low light plants for my ~10-15g setup.

Perfect, just need to add some floaters.

Regarding substrates I have some left over Amazonia/Africana. I have experience with plants, fish and shrimps. Is there another one I can use? Or maybe I can use the ADA soil as a bottom layer as they crumble over time if actively "sifted" through which the apistos are known to do.

Most of us use silica sand, but there is no reason why you can't use any fine grained substrate that doesn't raise TDS. I've got some moler clay cat litter in one tank and that is fine. I'm no familiar with ADA Amazonia, but I think it might contain too many nutrients when new, and be a bit large grain size. The powder size would be perfect. Same applies to ADA Africana, which I believe starts out with less nutrients, so would be my choice out of the 2.

F1 Apistogramma affini Cruzi

Not sure about these, it is not a name I'm familiar with, but I would try and aim for TDS towards the lower part of your range. It may be part of the A. eunotus complex

I try and keep conductivity about 100 microS so 50 - 60ppm TDS. Final point would be to have a good read through the forum, it has taught me so much. You could have a look at ApistoBob's (Bob's a member) web-site, it is full of good advice <http://www.dwarfcichlid.com/Aquarium_care.php>

cheers Darrel

 

[Gwendal]

In my tanks i use to have 100-150 microS and i have always nice fry.






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