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I've had similar death happened to my pucallpaensis female, but the male is fine and don't exhibit any such problem at all (and he's been living happily after for over a year since the female's death and is still alive and well).
I've since placed him with a group of agassizi. sp. Tefe and...
BBS don't spoil water as badly as the adult will enjoy them so they'll be all eaten within time.
As for fry surviving in a community tank - they can providing the female is persisting she is. I've had a two baenschi that got paired up and enjoyed some teenage fun in the grow out tank with a...
I suggest you need to cut out the dry food until they've reached 4 weeks old. Newly hatched don't need any food until they becomes free swimmers. Then they will take on small live food (BBS, microworm, etc). Until they reach a decent size at about 4 weeks old, there's not much point of offering...
Being German fish, I would incline to believe their bloodlines are reasonable good. Hence breeding amongst themselves won't have too much issue for probable a few more generations.
This is what I believe, I don't know how the German breeders choose their fish for breeding.
Another reason to go with the wild caught fish is for the bloodline.
You don't need to worry about in-breeding when the fish is wild caught.
We've found many poor quality apisto in Australia simply they've been too heavily in-bred.
One area you need to be careful of is pH do influence the gender ratio of the fry. From memory, higher pH promote more female while lower for male. Not 100% if this is true for all species though (but there has been experiment with cacatoides which align with the above believe).
Thomas.
Oops - saw the heading - it's about cacs.
From memory, cacatoides prefers neutral pH, so as long as it's not too far off (either way) then it should be okay.
Just make sure the tank is properly cycled as ammonia at pH > 7 can be fatal to little fish.
Cheers,
Thomas.
bigbird is right - Aquapets at Bondi Jn and BNC at Matraville is the place to shop for apisto.
Auburn Aquarium might have some in at rare occasions, but normally don't have much to offer.
Another alternative is to ask around for breeders. There are a few around Sydney.
Thomas.
Hi Justin,
In the past, I've found it absolutely difficult to care for the apisto in a large planted tank. I've tried them in a 5 ft planted tank in the past, as you've already pointed out - pulling them out is almost impossible. This include removing the sick fish for treatment.
At the...
Very likely the female will eat fry/egg if heavily disturbed.
If the harem is working the way it should, probably you should consider leaving her with the fry together with the harem unless you're concern about the fry survival.
I'll probably remove the other male and any female that isn't...
Hey Steve,
Hate to disappoint you but the elizabethae has proven to be one heck of a problem in keeping them alive and well (even for F1).
I'm now back to square one - raising a new (relatively) pair in a grow out tank and hopefully there maybe some better news early next year.
Hi...
Deformities I've seen include odd size eye, mouth warp, kink in the spine, etc.
The fish looks horrible, can't really think of any reason why people releases such fish into the market. :mad:
It's always good to know where your fish came from.
Cheers,
Thomas.
Hi Tom,
Well done, but there's some not so good news about cacs in general.
One thing you need to be aware of is there has been shocking quality with the cacs in Oz. If you've bought the pair from the LFS, there's a high possibility they're locally bred and may carry some form of...
Not sure what's available in Canada, but there are BBS strainer in the market that allows you to strain and rinse the BBS with minimal losses (some still makes it through though).
Congratulation - this is the beginning of the addiction.
The pair should take care of the fry (unless the male is a bad father - like my elizabethae in the past, he sneak up and snack on the fry) until the pair is ready for the second spawn (around 4 weeks). Then the female will chase them...
Welcome to the wonderful world of dwarf cichlids.
Where about are you in Oz?
There are several of us hanging around.
The local board is hosted in www.discusforums.com
Cheers,
Thomas.