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Recent content by Corine

  1. Corine

    Diagnosing Sick Panduros

    My Mildred (a. cacatuoides) just died of the same kind of thing. She started floating at the water surface yesterday evening, so I took her out and put her in a hospital tank, but she was dead when I came home from work this afternoon. :frown:
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    Juvenile cacatuoides sexing

    I have 60 of that size (and can't sex them yet either), and they eat flakes and enthusiastically chomp on the shrimp chunks as well.
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    How to icrease survival rate?

    I have very little experience (2 batches of cacatuoides fry), but I have 60 left over from both spawnings, which I hear is a really good number. I fed liquifry in the first few weeks and I have javamoss which is teeming with "dust". Mine were in the 20 gallon community tank for the first 3...
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    Mikrogeophagus ramirezi - opinions

    Heh, I don't have a lot of choice. I picked Sid and Nancy up Friday afternoon. Came home this evening from a session and they're spawning! :eek: :biggrin:
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    Mikrogeophagus ramirezi - opinions

    Ooo, lovely. I caught them cleaning up a rock this evening. They've only been in the tank for a day! :eek: Funnily enough, they are extremely popular here, but their availability in LFS is patchy.
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    Mikrogeophagus ramirezi - opinions

    He is a bit skinny, and also quite shy compared to her. He has had a good feed today though. I'm looking at opinions on form and colour I suppose. Do these look good enough to do some decent breeding with? A good starter pair you might say? They're Dutch bred, young adults and the best of the...
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    Mikrogeophagus ramirezi - opinions

    I would like some objective opinions on these two please! (Click on the picture to be taken to a bigger picture.) This was taken with aquarium light from above and flash from below. Nothing else done to the pictures except resize.
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    Sudden cacatuoides death

    Other than the fry, nothing has been introduced. The fry were born in the tank. My tank hasn't changed (other than fry) for the last 4 months, since I got the cacatuoides. Mildred isn't looking too good either, she is very swollen with eggs and in breeding colours, but no interested in caves...
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    Sudden cacatuoides death

    Yesterday afternoon as I fed my fish, everything was fine with George, my cactuoides male. He chased the food, flared at other fishes, swam around normally. Yesterday evening he was dead and shredded to bits. I am slightly at a loss as to what might have happened to him. I suspect he was dead...
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    New cacatuoides and immediately fry!

    And another question! Some of my fry have a continuous line along their side. Some of my fry have no line, but a dot on their flank. Is this normal in their development or does it mean anything? I'm so chuffed watching these little things grow and develop, they're soooooo cute!
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    At what age/size and colour question

    Oooo, yellow gold are pretty! I have another tank..... oooooooo. :biggrin:
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    At what age/size and colour question

    Thanks Mike, you really are a fount of knowledge! And the colour issue? I have some that have gone entirely transparent/milky white-ish and I was wondering if it had to do with what I read in another thread (http://www.forum.apistogramma.com/showthread.php?t=7623) or if it is a normal stage...
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    At what age/size and colour question

    First off, at what age or size are ap. cacatuoides ready to go to the shop? The LFS will take any I want to sell, but they're about 5 weeks old now, about 1cm in size. I thought at 3 or 4 months, but is that right? And some of my fry are turning see-through. A lot of them are still grey with...
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    Q: Cacatuoides breeding

    So I managed to catch 10 fry and put them in the Aqua40. Now I don't see them anywhere anymore! There are plenty of places to hide for them there, and I'm continuing to add food to the tank, but I'm not sure they survived the transplant. However, at last count Mildred still had 25 fry left! I...
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    Q: Cacatuoides breeding

    I have three Corydoras aeneus and 9 Corydoras pygmaeus. I read that the aeneus would be the biggest threat to the eggs, but they stay far, far away from Mildred. The pygmaeus are too small to eat the fry. Yeah, even catching the big ones can be very challenging in this tank. I'll give that a...
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