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By the way
Rams are not apistos, but they are a dwarf cichlid
If you google apistogramma ramirezi you won't get as many hits as their valid name "Mikrogeophagus ramirezi"
I have been trying to get more and more people to convert from Africans to Apistos in my club, as our water here is pretty well suited to them.
I would be more than willing to help out if possible. Hoping to be at the ACA.. but would love for the ASG to be something other than a meet and...
If your substrate or rocks are raising the pH, the LAST thing you want to do is inject CO2. CO2 dissolves into carbonic acid, and if your substrate or decor is leeching calcium/magnesium etc... adding CO2 will increase the rate at which the minerals dissolve in the water column.
3 gallons really isn't a lot of space for most dwarfs. I feel sorry/guilty if I have to put one of my fish in a 5 gallon hospital tank for any length of time...
RO stands for Reverse Osmosis.
It is water that is filtered through a ... you guessed it... RO unit.
It removes almost all the impurities/minerals, etc... out of the water.
Great way to get lower pH water.
It's funny how there are always exceptions to the norm.
My panduros are in a 75 gallon with other cichlids (2 pairs of panduros and a lone female [had 6 but one didn't survive transport], 4 keyholes and 4 angels). The males will occassionally flare gills at each other, but otherwise are...
What I'd like to know is if there would be any health concerns.
Additionally, would it not be advisable to try to breed this female, given the colouration?
I had a male cacatuoides who had a similar fate.
Got him from an LFS instead of a breeder (first mistake). He ate well for weeks, then one day he just stopped eating. Eventually, he wound up in a corner, lying on his side with his back arched. I'm pretty sure this is Tuberculosis, which is...
I used pencil fish as a target for my cacs.
As for the rams, if your tank is heavily planted and/or lots of hiding places/territory markers, you can get away with a pair for every square foot of tank footprint. But that's really pushing it.
My rams pairs get 2 square feet to themselves...