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    Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi female & fry

    This is a young female of mine and her first spawn. She'd been holding for about 11 days, but yesterday got frazzled at *something* and started spitting fry left and right. She ignored the ones she'd spit, so I caught her, stripped the rest, and rounded up the strays still in her tank. I...
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    A precious species - ID

    Dang, I THOUGHT that looked like a shiner but I told myself it couldn't be. Beautiful little fish, but wow on the price! The store I work at brings gets shiners (and dace) in every so often, through our wholesalers--who get most of their fish shipped from Florida or Asia--and we SELL them...
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    moving holding Pseudocrenailabrus multicolor?

    I moved her Sunday, all was good, she held the eggs through the move... then this evening while I was watching her, in her nice tank by herself with no reasonable external stimuli to cause it, she just randomly spat the eggs out. Don't know if she's just too young, or inexperienced, or got too...
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    Sexing Psuedocrenilabrus.m.multicolor

    Like many fish, these guys have the unfortunate habit of really "washing out" when stressed (for example, in a store tank, or bagged up at an auction) so it can look like you've got all of one sex even if the fish are mature and will color up for you nicely in just a couple days. Personally...
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    moving holding Pseudocrenailabrus multicolor?

    So I was doing my fishy chores this evening (why, oh WHY do I only seem to be able to do water changes at 1 AM?) and noticed one of my Egyptian mouthbrooders in my 72 hiding under a ledge, breathing heavy and looking strange. A closer look revealed that she indeed DID have a huge, distended...
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    sexing my new A. borellii

    I know Jim Ellenberger from Mainly Cichlids over here in California gets in wild apistos from time to time (although he's really more of an African cichlid guy, himself). He gets some from other wholesalers (particularly Oliver Lucanus at Below Water, but he does quite a bit of direct...
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    Apistogramma Study Group at ACA

    Dang. I was hoping I was wrong, so I could make it.
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    Apistogramma Study Group at ACA

    The schedule says the ASG is on Thursday night? Are there some wires crossed here as to when it is? (I REALLY hope it's Friday night, not Thursday, as I won't be getting into Sacramento until Friday afternoon.)
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    How to distinguish A. borelli from A. "steel blue"?

    Thanks to the both of you. That's incredibly helpful information for me to file away in my brain for later.
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    How to distinguish A. borelli from A. "steel blue"?

    Let me start by saying I don't own any of either at this point, although I've wanted some true borelli for quite a while. Unfortunately, every time I've seen them, they seem to be "dubious" in quality, health, no females, or possible "steel blue" hybrids instead of the true A. borelli. So my...
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    Hi from California

    Hey all! I'm hailing from California, where my fish are both work and play (I work at a LFS, then come home to do my own fishroom chores, or leave work early to attend local club meetings [SVAS and PCCA]). I mostly keep westies, specifically pelvicachromis-types, although I'm working with...
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    Anyone attending ACA 2007?

    Hello, all! I'm new to the board (tjudy pointed me over this direction), but not the hobby or dwarfs. I was wondering who, if anyone, was attending the Sacramento ACA this year. It'll be my first fish convention (I'm extremely excited!) and I'd love to know if there are going to be other...
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