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Recent content by Matteo ITA

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    Apistogramma trifasciata biotope (Planning)

    In my new setup I'll have the same fish of these tank: Apistogramma borelli, Aphyocharax rathbuni and Corydoras aeneus. Sfortunatamente passo ad un nuovo allestimento perchè ho avuto un blocco del filtro in concomitanza con la caduta accidentale di molto cibo in vasca durante la mia assenza che...
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    Apistogramma trifasciata biotope (Planning)

    This is the last update of my tank. I'm going to start a new setup.
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    Apistogramma trifasciata biotope (Planning)

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    How to do an biotope for Ap. Trifasciata Guaporé

    Hi :) Rio Guporè is between Bolivia and Brazil. In the same area there is the Pantanal. I think that in the Brazilian part of Rio Guaporè there are a lot of plants; probably more than in other Bolivian parts of the river...
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    How to do an biotope for Ap. Trifasciata Guaporé

    Hi, in this page there is a biotope of Rio Guporè by Bleher. There is the image but not the description with the name of the plants. In Rio Guaporè there are a lot of plants and it is similar to a Pantanal biotope...
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    Apistogramma trifasciata biotope (Planning)

    This is the male: Tomorrow I'll try to add better photos of the females. You are right: in that photo it doesn't look like a borelli female...
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    Apistogramma trifasciata biotope (Planning)

    A female of Apisto:
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    Apistogramma trifasciata biotope (Planning)

    Si ci sono già. La vasca era stata avviata a Dicembre 2013 :) Ho 1M + 2F di Apistogramma borelli. Se riesco a fotografarli, pubblico le foto ;)
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    Apistogramma trifasciata biotope (Planning)

    Italiano anche tu? :) Grazie del complimento :) La pianta alta è L'Echinodorus grandiflorus: dovrebbe crescere fino ad uscire dalla vasca. Tha tall plant on the back is Echinodorus grandiflorus: it should grow and come out of the tank.
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    Apistogramma trifasciata biotope (Planning)

    Hi :) Update. What do you think? Thanks, Matteo.
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    Apistogramma trifasciata biotope (Planning)

    Thanks for your answer :) The Potamogeton is invasive: I have started with 7 stems and now it covers all the floor. Indeed the floor is covered by the Potamogeton and not by the E. bolivianus! But the result is good imho. I agree with you; I'll add some coconut caves and dead leaves. I add...
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    Apistogramma trifasciata biotope (Planning)

    Hi, other photo of the tank. Whati do you think? Thanks, Matteo :)
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    Phalloceros caudimaculatus

    Thanks for your answer Mike! They can tolerate a wide range of parameters, evidently. Also my tapwater has the same parameters of the yours. I'd like to keep them in my tank but in Italy they aren't common and, moreover, the opinion of gerald is very convincing :)
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    Phalloceros caudimaculatus

    Hi gerald :) Thanks for your explanation. I agree with your opinion: probably Phalloceros in nature live also in soft and acidic water but not because they prefer that conditions.
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    Phalloceros caudimaculatus

    Hi, my name is Matteo and I'm Italian. I have read about this fish in an article about Paraguayan fish (but it could be found also in other countries). It is Phalloceros caudimaculatus, but there are also other species of Phalloceros in the same "biotope". It is a Poeciilidae but it seems that...
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