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Hi Gerald, I'm afraid I don't have enough experience to say what it was precisely, and I haven't preserved a sample! But the other organs esp liver did not have the same symptoms and seemed in good shape or at least uninfected. Suspect that it must have wolfed down some unexpanded granular food...
Darrel, your Camallanus worms got me worried... by this morning the sick fish was looking terminal so I gave it the coup de grace and did a quick autopsy under high magnification - turns out it had an colon impacted with a knobbly sausage of hard, granular gack the colour of earwax, about 3mm...
I've never had Camallanus worm infestations before - they sound extremely nasty.
Am now pondering what to do with my surplus young males... will have to go back to LFS and see if I can find/pick out a female (looking for tail patternings mostly), if so I will try and pair her up and move the...
PS do you think 120L too small for 4 Blaukopf (of either sex?). As neither I or the LFS staff could sex them in the shop, idea was to get enough to have a decent chance of a pair, and take others back if there was too much aggression.
Thanks all - at least the sp. ID seems positive, hopefully the sex will become clear as they mature. So is the leading-edge of the pectoral a poor diagnostic then? And can males have a lot of yellow in them too? I'm a bit confused... my guesses were based on the sexing guide posted on...
I don't see the red - but my red/green colour vision's a bit funny. However looking at the various posts on this species it seems that the strongest diagnostic would be the black leading edge on pectoral fins of mature females - suggesting that the yellow one's a female. The two less colourful...
Hi, I picked up 4 "Apisogramma sp." from the LFS 4 days ago, I think they're 'Blue Steel' and maybe 2/3rds grown (about 4.5 cm) - one is a distinct yellow with a lot of blue on the head, two are more or less grey and black and very hard to tell apart, and the last has been sick since release and...