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  1. Bekateen

    Breeding / Raising Apistos

    Okay, thank you. Cheers, Eric
  2. Bekateen

    Breeding / Raising Apistos

    I'm sorry, that's not what I meant to ask. Which temperature ranges and which pH ranges produce more males?
  3. Bekateen

    Breeding / Raising Apistos

    Thanks, Mike, for the perspective. Actually, prior to finding this thread, I had suspected that my skewed sex ratio was due to differential mortality or some other social effect. But after getting only one male in three (or four) clutches made me suspicious that it might be environmental. So...
  4. Bekateen

    Breeding / Raising Apistos

    Reviving an old thread, could someone please describe the current understanding of temperature- and pH-sex determination? I searched the forums here and I couldn't find specific answers. Specifically, I've got Apistogramma agassizii. The adults are kept in a 36 gal community tank, pH about...
  5. Bekateen

    Ideal spawning cave

    Hi Darrel, Are the moss and java fern alive when you super-glue it to the shell? I mean, will that harm the living plants? Or do they adapt/survive that just fine? Thanks, Eric
  6. Bekateen

    Ideal spawning cave

    Prescription medicine bottles have also worked for me. They typically have openings about the same size as an old 35 mm film canister, but they are usually longer than the film canister, giving the cave some depth for the female to recess into.
  7. Bekateen

    How to kill algae in Apisto tank: Use chemicals or barley extract?

    Hi All, As a follow up to these posts, I'm changing the water more frequently and I reduced the artificial photoperiod slightly (but it's still over 12 hr/day, since the tank is yielding lots of baby Corys, and banjo cats, and a decent number of A. agassizii - they seem to like spawning when...
  8. Bekateen

    My 64 Litre South American Biotope

    My agassizii spawn in a community tank. The females nest in either terra cotta breeding caves or segments of PVC pipe, capped at one end. I leave the mom and eggs in the community tank until the eggs hatch. When the fry are wrigglers, I lift the entire breeding structure out of the aquarium...
  9. Bekateen

    Substrate For Planted Apisto Aquarium

    I use simple playground sand, bought at my local Home Depot and washed thoroughly (even though it is pre-washed). I also do not use any dirt substrate but I buy aquarium plant fertilizer sticks that can be hidden under the sand and I also use liquid plant micronutrients (I forget the brands of...
  10. Bekateen

    How to kill algae in Apisto tank: Use chemicals or barley extract?

    No, the tank does not get much direct sunlight - very little actually. But it does get 14+ hours of fluorescent light per day (usually on at about 7am; off between 9-11pm). I don't know the exact output of the fluorescent bulb, but the hood is a standard Aqueon hood for the Aqueon 36 gal...
  11. Bekateen

    My apisto cacatuoides

    I set up my tanks with ordinary "sandbox" sand that is commercially available at hardware stores. It is pre-washed, but obviously you still need to wash it - not just to be sure it's clean, but also because it can have particles that are so small that a powerful external power filter can...
  12. Bekateen

    How to kill algae in Apisto tank: Use chemicals or barley extract?

    So from most of your entries, I'm inferring that you don't recommend using anything to kill the algae, but rather you suggest I reduce nutrients, reduce lighting and/or add more plants. Part of the problem in my tank is that the plants are what get covered with algae. Will decreasing light or...
  13. Bekateen

    How to kill algae in Apisto tank: Use chemicals or barley extract?

    Hi All, I have a well-planted 36 gal community aquarium (heavily-filtered) that houses about 40 small fish, including four Apistogramma agassizii (1 m, 3 f). The aquarium is generally healthy, so much so that the apistos spawn regularly in the tank, as do my 3-lined Corys, albino Corys, banjo...
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