Kelbrina
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Hello again everyone! I "accidentally" got two apistos from my LFS. I just happened to be there as a shipment arrived and all of the apistos in the bag were near-death or dead, so the employee gave two to me for free. I was in the process of setting up a 70g tank with nice, soft, fine sand (it's awesome to watch them take mouthfalls and watch it sprinkle out). The only inhabitants were 3 male guppies. It was cycled, just devoid of any decoration save for one or two plants. I popped a cave into the tank and a spare piece of driftwood to give them some hiding places and about two weeks later one of them started viciously guarding the cave.
Then a few days later babies! it is now exactly 30 days since they left their cave and I think there's easily over 30 of them. Mom is doing great! Dad has been hiding on one side of the tank behind his driftwood to avoid her wrath. I'd move him but I don't have any tanks to move him too right now. I've been hatching brine shrimps and feeding them once a day, two times a day if I am lucky. Can you lovely people help me identify them?
Images of the parents and fry here: http://imgur.com/a/ReEmg
And a gif of the babies yesterday. My camera didn't pick up the color well but they had just eaten a big batch of brine shrimp and they had reddish-orange bloated bellies.
https://gfycat.com/ScholarlyLameEasternglasslizard
Then a few days later babies! it is now exactly 30 days since they left their cave and I think there's easily over 30 of them. Mom is doing great! Dad has been hiding on one side of the tank behind his driftwood to avoid her wrath. I'd move him but I don't have any tanks to move him too right now. I've been hatching brine shrimps and feeding them once a day, two times a day if I am lucky. Can you lovely people help me identify them?
Images of the parents and fry here: http://imgur.com/a/ReEmg
And a gif of the babies yesterday. My camera didn't pick up the color well but they had just eaten a big batch of brine shrimp and they had reddish-orange bloated bellies.
https://gfycat.com/ScholarlyLameEasternglasslizard