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Thanks for the compliments and tips everyone. I'll see about picking up some new food. I currently feed a mixture of frozen brine shrimp, frozen freshwater mix, frozen bloodworms and some high quality pellets (also zucchini for the Oto's).
I just got home (from our own baby class) and my one female Apistogramma Borelli 'Blue' has babies swimming around her! Anything that gets close she goes after. I'm afraid the babies won't last with the cardinals but they are hiding in the plants since I have so many. This is my first spawn of...
What do you mean? Like I shouldn't have gotten 2 males? I figured 125g was plenty of space for them especially with all the hiding places in the plants.
I just wanted to follow up with everyone. I went with 2 males and 4 females of Apistogramma Borelli 'Blue' from Wet Spot. Here are a few pictures. Thanks again!!!!
These pictures are from the first day (3/27/13)
Pictures from today (4/2/13)
I'm running 125 micromols of light at the substrate so I need the high ppm of CO2 to prevent algae. CO2 comes on 30 minutes before lights and shuts off 30 minutes after (8hr photoperiod). I have the ability to control CO2 based on pH but I'd rather not run it 24/7.
There is a fairly...
I've really got the apistogramma bug and want to buy some for my new high tech planted 125g. I've been looking around the internet and decided to ask a few questions.
First off, these are my water parameters...
pH-6.55 with CO2 and 7.4-7.5 when CO2 is off
Temperature-Flexible between 72-78F...