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Thanks for the advice.
I am currently working on setting up a 10g breeder for the pebas. I think I'll try spawning them just below neutral at first & if that doesn't work I will lower to pH. I'll update this thread if I have any luck.
I have a pair of pebas that I now strongly believe to be a male & a female.
Unfortunately due to my living situation right now when I found them (I've always wanted this species so I knew I had to buy them) I had to house them in my good friends community tank. The female is bright yellow now...
Yes that's a male & a female, however, those aren't my fish.
I went to the LFS and picked up a boy that had colored up. He's beautiful, obvious male. And what does that supposed female do when I plop the new make in? HE colors up and turns out to be a male too, of course.
well I'll have to go to my local Mom & Pop fish store. They had a larger one that was obviously male, but his mouth looked strange and I wasn't sure whether or not he was deformed. I'll see if they have any others coloring up.
Measured "it" today with an actual ruler. About 1.5 inches. I'm leaning towards female at this point. Does anyone know if pebas are polygamous or monogamous? If they're polygamous I'll just pick up another male, otherwise I'll look to trade one of the girls.
They're in a tank without substrate so that obviously needs to change but they're being fed a quality diet in RO water. I'll see about getting sand this week.
I'll have to measure it. It washes out and then gets its vertical line back all the time depending on mood.
It's pretty small but the female is the exact same size and she's totally sexable. This one actually loses its pattern when it's feeling 'confident.'
They're about 2cm long.
I recently bought a pair of Apistogramma sp. pebas from my LFS thinking I had a male and a female. Now I'm not so sure. The one I presumed to be a male is starting to look a lot more like a female. I was just wondering if that is so.
Now it sometimes gets these black ventral fins (not so bold...