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I picked up another one of these guys at the LFS I got the first ones at. They still had one left. The fins led me to believe it was a female so I bought her since I have only one female(not counting unsexed juv). I got her home and compared to my fish. Her body shape suggested a...
mature pics
So I now know these are not Norbeti's. Last I heard Mike said "They are a eunotus-complex (cruzi-subcomplex) species. More than likely they are A. sp. Nanay/Melgar."
Well I moved them into my 30G and got a few more pics.
The pics above are of first male
below is a poor...
so now the previously sub male has become the dom male. I think I will move all four to a 30g if I can catch them. I took out the rubbernose plecos and green fire tetras from the 30g to make it a little more breeding friendly. I will also take the hatchet fish with when I move the apistos from...
I'm not too worried about the fry being eaten since the females are very protective and I put in some java moss.
What I am trying to find out is if a sub male in the environment helps or hurts either the breeding of rearing of fry.
So I have 4 unidentified apistos (possibly A. sp. Nanay/Melgar ) in a 75 gallon planted tank with some keyhole cichlids, some tetras, hachets, and a bunch of BN plecos. I have two males and two females and one surviving fry that is almost half the size of a female. Well one of the males is...
So at what point shall I pull them from the community tank. I have a 30 G ready with 3 rubbernose plecos and 4 pygmy corys and a bunch of baby swords and a few other plants and driftwood. I figure the rubbernose to be too big to get in the apistos cave and the corys too small too do damage as...
Thank you all for the replies. It seems my hunch was correct. So how will I know when they mature. They are already breeding. I went back to the LFS to see if they had any more but the two they had listed as Norberti seemed to be males. Could these be a cross breed? Should I not breed...
Yes I am aware they are apistos and I know they stay small I just assumed a fish to have to mature before breeding and since I was also under the assumption that they were Norberts I figured a mature size of around two inches. The males I have a about an 1 1/4" at this point.
Do I need better photos? I'm not sure you can tell by the snail shells that these guys are quite small and the females smaller still. I was suprised they would breed at such a small size. I havn't put a ruler up to them yet but I can in the next round of photos I do.
I bought these guys as Apistogramma Norberti. I now have 2 males and 2 females. The males don't seem to color up much but the females brooding color is sharp. I am not sure that they are Norbertis though. Here are a few pics. I can take more if needed to ID.
This is before they were...
I got this guy about a week ago. He was the only apisto I've seen other than agazzis in the LFSs. It's only about an inch and a half and mostly blue. There is some red/orange in the tail and in pictures some yellow shows up on the cheek. I am new to apistos and would like to figure out what...