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Recent content by Graham

  1. Graham

    Looking For: A few Apistos to make pairs

    Hope you don't mind if I piggy-back onto this, Jeff. I also have a lone A. bitaeniata shushupe male from (I believe) the same shipment. I had a line on more a while back, but the contact isn't returning my emails... Never seen these available other than imports, so I'm not optimistic, but if...
  2. Graham

    Looking for Apisto Inka 50 (A. baenschi)

    Thanks for the suggestion, Juan.
  3. Graham

    Looking for Apisto Inka 50 (A. baenschi)

    Sounds good, Tuna. I'll be in touch... Thanks.
  4. Graham

    Looking for Apisto Inka 50 (A. baenschi)

    I have one specimen sitting in the tank all lonesome...not sure if it's a male or female as of yet...still to young. It's basically the sole survivor of a horrible wild import experience. Does anyone know of (or have) a source of these? I used to see them all the time, and now not so much...
  5. Graham

    Peru Apisto Order...NO GOOD!

    Anything's possible - but the shushupe I got showed no typical signs of ammonia burn at all. The Inka did have some irritated spots on the flesh. But there's the whole other factor that the other fsh in my tank were fine until the Apistos moved in.
  6. Graham

    Peru Apisto Order...NO GOOD!

    Yep, same shipment. I can't understand it. The shushupe appeared really healthy. All were eating and going about their normal territory establishments...and then one at a time, kaput. If the neons hadn't also started dropping, I would not have suspected "extraneous" circumstances. I'm just...
  7. Graham

    Peru Apisto Order...NO GOOD!

    I purchased 6 Inkas and 7 shushupe from the same shipment (I assume). After 5 days, I have one of each fish left. Worst experience in my 20 years of keeping fish. The Inkas were pretty much gone within 48 hours. The shushupe looked fine, really healthy in fact. Then one by one, they would...
  8. Graham

    Breaking the Nijsseni code

    Congrats! I've been working on mine for 6 months with still no babies. I've got the pH below 6, tried temps from 76-82, fed all kinds of live foods, changed water often, changed water rarely, used ultra-low (10ppm) TDS water, treated with peat, almond leaves - nothing. I know I've had...
  9. Graham

    New skin

    Me likey! Very refreshing...
  10. Graham

    proper PH lowering

    IIRC, most bags of peat will give you the approximate pH if you read the back of the bag. I have seen ranges from 4 to "below 6". All brands are not the same and any time I buy a new bag I like to test it out on a more "dispensible" tank before putting it into heavy use.
  11. Graham

    Breeding Rack

    I agree with Ted - breeding stock in a multi-species system has too much potential to wipe out all the source fish. It's not worth the risk. It's also not worth having to subject healthy fish to treatments affecting the other fish, etc. Also consider that you're going to need significantly...
  12. Graham

    fry food

    Although I didn't diligently keep at it, I've tried 2 sizes of GPs (both smaller than BBS-size) with no apparent feeding response from Apisto fry. With the ease of microworm culturing and BBS hatching, I didn't have the desire to keep trying.
  13. Graham

    Breeding care, instinct or learning process?

    With all this energy spent speculating, why don't we try to come up with a way to test the hypothesis? :) Is it even possible? My argument is that environmental conditions will dictate the behavior of the fish over anything learned. If the environment doesn't approximate the natural...
  14. Graham

    Breeding care, instinct or learning process?

    I think we're trying to identify that bridge between instinct and memory-based learning - or at least make it more cut and dry, when I don't think we can. It may be a part of each, though I think "fish memories" or cognitive learning is likely quite rudimentary at best when it comes to something...
  15. Graham

    Breeding care, instinct or learning process?

    AFAIK = As far as I know :) Good discussion, folks!
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