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Some of you may remember me from about a year ago when I posted about my disastrous attempt to add a colony of A. stiendachneri to my 6ft 'upper rio negro' biotope aquarium, which ended with the loss of the entire colony. (I still feel pretty bad about that, even though I don't know that there was much of anything I could have done to prevent it)
Anyway, after some 9 months of soul searching, I finally decided to give Apisto's another try. Originally I was on the lookout for some A. cacatuoides, but on a visit to the local LFS last weekend, I came across some very lovely A. agassizi 'Double Reds' and took home a trio. I figured if I tried a species from a different species complex, it might help clarify what went wrong the first time around.
I have diverged somewhat from the biotope in the process, but I figure if I do well with the aggies, I will have little trouble finding buyers, and thus defray some of my costs, and the Apisto experience will be invaluable when it comes time to move on to one of the rarer 'biotope accurate' species.
It is now 6 days since I purchased them, and they have settled in beyond my wildest expectations, with one female already guarding a clutch of eggs!
There is still a long way to go, and I worry that the female will have her work cut out for her in keeping any fry safe from the cardinal and rummy-nose tetras who share the tank, not to mention the pair of medium angels. Never the less, things are looking alot rosier than last time.
Anyway, after some 9 months of soul searching, I finally decided to give Apisto's another try. Originally I was on the lookout for some A. cacatuoides, but on a visit to the local LFS last weekend, I came across some very lovely A. agassizi 'Double Reds' and took home a trio. I figured if I tried a species from a different species complex, it might help clarify what went wrong the first time around.
I have diverged somewhat from the biotope in the process, but I figure if I do well with the aggies, I will have little trouble finding buyers, and thus defray some of my costs, and the Apisto experience will be invaluable when it comes time to move on to one of the rarer 'biotope accurate' species.
It is now 6 days since I purchased them, and they have settled in beyond my wildest expectations, with one female already guarding a clutch of eggs!
There is still a long way to go, and I worry that the female will have her work cut out for her in keeping any fry safe from the cardinal and rummy-nose tetras who share the tank, not to mention the pair of medium angels. Never the less, things are looking alot rosier than last time.