Nuno Prazeres
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Can anyone confirm if this little guy is a male of this species?
Thanks
Can anyone confirm if this little guy is a male of this species?
Thanks
Currently I have them in a 120 gal system (just a trio, 10 pencil fish and 30 cardinals). The bottom is fully covered with leaf litter. Temperature is 26 C, pH is 6.4 and TDS is 27. Females are always spawning but the fry misteriously vanishes before I can spot them free swimming.
Are water conditions wrong?
I feed them solely live foor (spirulina enriched daphnia an grey mosquito larvae). The leaf litter is full of micro life - worms, cyclops and ostracodae - and they are always chewing aufwuchs. Never had Apistos that looked this healthy.
Thanks.
Just took a brief look at the tank a few minutes ago and came across this:
I do not know if it helps.
Anyway... If these are indeed A. cf. pertensis, where are they from and what type of habitat they live in? A. pertensis ecology is quite known from Rommer but not A. cf. pertensis.
Currently I have them in a 120 gal system (just a trio, 10 pencil fish and 30 cardinals). The bottom is fully covered with leaf litter. Temperature is 26 C, pH is 6.4 and TDS is 27.
Females are always spawning but the fry misteriously vanishes before I can spot them free swimming.
Are water conditions wrong?
I feed them solely live foor (spirulina enriched daphnia an grey mosquito larvae). The leaf litter is full of micro life - worms, cyclops and ostracodae - and they are always chewing aufwuchs. Never had Apistos that looked this healthy.
Thank you all. It seems I lost this one too. I have a friend who has a couple from the same shop and he is also experiencing the same: loss of fry. He keeps them in a smaller system without ostracosa or cardinal tetras
His water is not as soft as mine. Given this, I think it is either less than optimum water conditions or this is indeed a hard species to reproduce.
Concerning the mosquito larvae, they survive for 1 minute at most. I think cardinal tetras would rather explode than leaving a grey mosquito larvae survive.
I think that the "Grey Mosquito Larvae" are "Culicidae", so the larvae are air breathing, and normally reside at the waters surface (like the ones below).If the larvae reach the substrate about the only thing that can find them is corydorus or some other catfish
There must be something about Mosquito larvae, all fish seem to really like them.Exactly!!!! Those are the larvae I feed them with. I also give them daphnia but they do prefer mosquito larvae.
All mosquitos have similar larvae. Some get larger than others and some of the larger species are predatory, primarily cannibalistic but they will eat fry and eggs if available. The gray mosquito you are using is not native here. We do have a smaller mosquito, 3/16 inch adults, which I do sometimes feed me fish. I usually warn people about mosquitoes because a lot of inexperienced keepers go out and serine local streams and windup with dragonfly nymphs, damsel fly, predatory may fly and caddis species, stonefly, and the larger mosquitoes. All of these potential threats look harmless when small until they start eating your spawns.Hi all, There must be something about Mosquito larvae, all fish seem to really like them.
I've got a few Parosphromenus at the moment. I don't see them very often, as they mainly remain in the shadows amongst the leaves and plants.
They ignore Daphnia, will sometimes eat Grindal worms, usually eat Lumbriculus etc, but they will chase Mosquito larvae all the way to the surface.
cheers Darrel
That is interesting, I think in Europe we tend to forget that N. America has a much more diverse fauna. I've just had a look at predatory Toxorhynchites spp. etc.Locally I have identified three species that are predatory. In eastern Tennessee I had five predstory;N.C., five; S.C., seven, and south Florida, ten. There was a species in Florida that would feed on baby mollies.