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You're right about the pic. I have a pic via cell phone which looked okay on the tiny phone screen but it pretty terrible on a computer screen. I'll post the pic anyways. (I realized the tail looks clamped but its due to the angle.)
Sorry, I wasn't being clear. He has a separate tank from the other apistos since Nov/Dec when they reached sexual maturity.
His jaw does move, normal as far as I can tell.
Their frozen food is thawed in a small cup of old tank water.
Hes taken back to hiding again.
Between the original post and today, he managed to eat some worms. He was hiding for all of the time when he was not eating.
I just came home today and found him lying on the substrate, his body, fins, and eyes were all dark. He had "normal colors" during the other times he cames out. No...
There are similar threads about eating but not quite the same and I didn't want to hijack.
I have a small male A. cacatuoides who has always eaten less than the other cacs that I received with him. He is in a tank with rasboras and receives thawed and live foods. (Hasn't accepted pellets.)...
One of my most recent pics of Poldo (the bigger of my two males). I finally caught him in mid "yawn" or stretch, not sure way he does this. Still trying to get a front shot of him doing this.
I still wish to put Neocaridina in that tank but look at the size of that mouth...
This a corner shot of the tank, its a bit different now but close enough:
Its a 29gal with about 60W of T5HO. As for water parameters, I haven't checked for several months. I just know that the water is soft out of the tap.
The most predominant plants in there are:
Echinodorus...
Thanks :)
I don't do anything fancy with this tank aside from some yeast based CO2 diffusion, I'm not sure what I can write about. If you have a specific question though, I'll try to answer it.
Thanks very much, animalmgc :)
Yes, Cleo is a girl and she does have a black band under her lower lip but I don't believe she is an A. sp. Schwarzkinn/Black-chin.
The band is pretty narrow and she doesn't have the separate black spot near her tail. Those are the only two markings I know...
Its really interesting how fish can express themselves through their color and fins. Here are a few pics of the same fish. The underlying color is similar but the vividness and patterns can change so drastically. (The pics are not digitally enhanced.)
(You can catch a...
Thanks for posting these videos. In the second video, its almost mesmerizing how she is able to move her body vertically while the eyes are fixed in one place.
Just curious about this, how does the female kill her mate? How big is the breeding tank?
Mi piace particolarmente l'acquario da 400L. Il layout unico e semplice attira l'attenzione.
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I especially like the 400L tank. The unique, clean layout is really eyecatching.
Jungle Fizz tabs technically do work in that they do produce CO2 but they don't seem to produce a large volume of gas.
You could try a yeast driven CO2 system. You can either make the system with household items (really cheap) or you could buy it (Hagen, not so cheap). The principle will be...
I think they mean boiling as a treatment, not a preventative.
Perhaps I missed these bits of information but how much light do you have and what type of lighting?