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    Tank mates for cockatoos

    Most tetras are probably ok as tank mates in a community tank as long as you are not expecting to breed your apistos - community tanks are not good breeding tanks and the other fish usually eat the eggs. Cardinal and rummy nose are both nice looking tetras IMO and more interesting than the...
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    29g trifasciata tank

    If you do go for pencilfish as dither fish try to get Nannostomus Marginatus as these dont pray on eggs, the bekfords variety have been reported to eat eggs on occasion
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    New to Apisto Breeding

    I have used Ember Tetras as dithers in a breeding setup, they are very small and wont pray on eggs or fry.
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    Apisto Female superb parenting

    I have had similar experiences. I find the apisto mums to generally do a great job. On one occation mum had take fry out of the cave to brows for food then when I accidently disturb them she then rounded them all up and put them back in the cave. As the fry got larger then became used to me...
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    Another batch of fry..

    They are just regular Agassizii group. The dad is a double red variety I purchased him to add to my breeding group. The mum is from a spawn about a year ago where the parents were a natural colour pair. So it will be interesting to see the colour on these fry once they grow up.
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    Another batch of fry..

    I always get excited when I see new fry! These are Apistogramma Agassizii This spawn is from a new mum and I used a different cave to the style I used previously with another pair. This cave being white where as I normally use brown natural colour caves - seems they don't care about the colour...
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    what to do about Macmasteri fry

    Yeah could be good to remove the male if there are some early signs of aggression all be it mixed behaviour
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    Recent acquisition

    They are some nice looking apistos! Were the eggs viable, any luck with fry?
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    what to do about Macmasteri fry

    I also suggest removing the male. They can get temprimental and become aggressive. This page has some tips for breeding apistogramma which I have found useful before. Also if the fry are too small for BBS microworms work well, although having said that the size in the photo suggest they will...
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    Runts

    Yep I have also done this too, but then you hit a limit on how many tanks you have! :p But separating 2 or 3 times is very helpful
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    Ap. Viejita Gold

    I have experience breeding agassizii. At time to ensure strong genetics I out cross so for example buy another male to breed with my existing females. I have also bred "natural" colour mainly blueish female agassizii with a "triple red" male - they bred successful the colour of the fry vary...
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    Pair Displaying Breeding Behaviour?

    They may prefer sand but I dont think it will be the difference between whether they spawn or not. From your description certainly sounds like spanwing behaviour. live foods is also a good way to encourage them and BBS is good for fry if they appear, this has a few more tips - How To Breed...
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    Apistos and Ember Tetras

    I keep agassizii and ember tetras together and also never had any issues
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    Apistogramma Borellii Community-ish Tank

    Nice looking tank, good work!
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    Apistogramma Agassizii Gold Blaze breeding project

    Pretty good plan, good that from the outset you recognize the need for multiple tanks. The first week or 2 the fry are free swimming they might benefit from some smaller foods like micro works etc. but they should take BBS very early... trying to remember what I did for my last spawn.... think...
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