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    Silver Apistogramma ID

    Hi, my local fish store has had this fish for a few months. We don't really know what it is, nor what it was imported as. It could've been as regani or steindachneri, but at least to me it doesn't look like either. Maybe you guys have a possible ID?
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    Is it safe to keep chocolate gourami with breeding apisto ?

    My experience with nijsseni is that they're absolute psychos, the entire complex. They could work in a tank this big but I would avoid them. I'm also unsure they would appreciate the pH of max. 5.5. A. elizabethae and Dicrossus absolutely would.
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    Is it safe to keep chocolate gourami with breeding apisto ?

    Officially, 77 is enough. In my experience, even lower works. I keep them at 72, and so does my friend who has spawned them. I will argue though, that it's better to be safe than sorry and go for 77+. But you could go all the way up to 84 if you wanted to, yes.
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    Is it safe to keep chocolate gourami with breeding apisto ?

    I know it's quite a bit later now, but given you mention it's a long term plan I might be in time. I feel like behavior wise it would work fine, especially in a tank that big. I keep both Sphaerichthys osphromenoides and S. selatanensis and in my experience S. selatanensis stress much less than...
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    Which apistogramma to choose for an Igarapé do Daracua biotope ?

    I can highly recommend them. As for trunk tree, this is the medium size for 9 euros. A good 40cm tall if not more. And this is my tank, which uses 5 30-40cm pieces and 1 50-60cm. All trunk tree.
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    ID friend's Apistogramma

    I have received no photo updates, but the fish does seem to feel a lot better at the moment according to them. I'll be staying at their place tomorrow so I'll try to take a few better pictures. I do agree that it looks a lot like brustband though.
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    ID friend's Apistogramma

    Hi, a friend of mine has gotten this Apistogramma, it was sold as panduro. To me, it doesn't really look like panduro but I wouldn't know what it is either, other than it probably does belong to the nijsseni group.
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    How many Dicrossus filamentosus in a 60x60cm tank?

    Lol yeah it was some quick placement, I rescaped the tank a few days ago and the tank got too cold too quick so I placed it wherever the water was high enough :p same goes for the spraybar, had it lowered to avoid the splashing noises at night as I didn't have enough RO ready to top it off...
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    How many Dicrossus filamentosus in a 60x60cm tank?

    Yes, of course. The setup is not 100% complete yet, I have yet to introduce the leaf litter and small twigs as I have to go to the forest first, but I do plan on covering pretty much 100% of the bottom with it. The Nannostomus are still in QT and that's why they're not visible.
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    How many Dicrossus filamentosus in a 60x60cm tank?

    Yes, it's a biotope community setup. Eventually I do plan on separating some eggs if they happen to lay on an easily removable object and I see it in time, but otherwise I'm fine with most eggs being eaten if that's what has to happen. The peat substrate and leaf litter do offer quite a few...
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    How many Dicrossus filamentosus in a 60x60cm tank?

    Well, the title says it all. I have a 60x60x40cm (24x24x16") tank and I would like to stock it with some Dicrossus filamentosus. They'll be the only bottom dweller so they will have the entire 60x60cm for themselves. The bottom is pretty much covered in leaf litter and there's a huge piece of...
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    A. panduro heavy breathing + wound.

    Update. This is looking like myco, sadly. It is not getting new wounds though, and the breathing seems a bit better, so it might be a normal wound. He's still eating fine. The container was only for the pictures, by the way.
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    A. panduro heavy breathing + wound.

    Thank you! This was very helpful!
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    A. panduro heavy breathing + wound.

    So, in case it is Myco, what should I do? Take the female out? Is it infectious? Should I desinfect everything that is used in that tank? Is it a danger to all other tanks? Sorry for the questions, but I'm reading very varied things on the internet.
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    A. panduro heavy breathing + wound.

    Hi all! My Apistogramma panduro male seems to be breathing heavily and has some sort of wound. This is the wound, under the mouth, close to the gills. The other side is perfectly fine. It looks like several bubbles, and for a second I thought a snail might have laid eggs, but that doesn't...
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    Tank mates for A. panduro.

    That's the problem.... Biotope correct means no aquatic plants, at all. The only picture I have been able to find with aquatic vegetation, is a picture of the Rio Ucayali, with Limnobium laevegatum, and it was posted on an aquarium related site, with no source. Even if it was real, I'd prefer...
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    Tank mates for A. panduro.

    Hi, I'm looking for (biotope correct) tankmates for A. panduro. The tank will be 60x45x35 cm (about 24x18x14"). I had thought of Nannostomus marginatus, because they're beautiful, but I've heard stories of panduros butchering them during the breeding season. Is there any fish that A. panduro...
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    Apistogramma Panduro - Pairs, Harems, Breeding

    As far as I'm concerned, panduros don't really understand the concept of a harem and almost always form a pair, leaving the extra female(s) behind.
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