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Recently a friend gave me 5 apisto which were bullying his other fish in his community tank and he needed to get rid of them. These apisto most likely are wild caught some place in Venezuela, as due to economic and political situation there are no imports and exports and the market is very...
Well, I got a pair of WC A. megaptera, if I remember well from the Atabapo region. As far as I could find out, they breed at pH of 4.5 and 5 ppm. I think I'll have to put some catappa leaves somewhere in the acuarium.
Well, it took less than an hour for both to enter and inspect the cave. And both do move gravel, they constantly pick some to spit it at another place.
Don't know if it is due the water change I made while placing the cave, but both look a lot more animated doing their tail flashing. My new pH...
Reading about breeding caves, I have seen two versions of the aperture: some have a round hole near the center top of the shell, others have the aperture on the rim which makes contact with the substrate.
I like to try to breed A. megaptera... will the aperture make any difference? Or do they...
Thanks for the welcome. Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to do some exloring, right now it's too dangerous and visits to Venezuela are not recommended. Living in Caracas with a contaminated river "Rio Guaire" gives not that many chances to explore for fish...
Hello everyone...
Well, after registration, I set up a breeding tank. Now it has a pair of A. megaptera exploring it's surroundings and I guess I will have tons of questions, hoping to achieve the breeding of this pair.
Hope for a lot of help from this community.
Regards
Wilfried