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Sounds about right to me, looks about right me. Get the pH down, and the protein up and you should be on the way. It always amazed me how much they could eat in the pre spawn/conditioning phase. Best of luck!
Probably 40+ different cf eunotus species. If you’d like Mike or Frank to be able to narrow it down to something more specific than cf eunotus, the more pictures the better
agassizii has seemed to be wildly polychromatic within population in the few (3 boxes) imports I’ve handled. Heck even the kids in those spawns turned out to be many colored at the sibling level. Mac, which local populations have you found to be uniform?
They get collected in the middle of nowhere (export infrastructure wise), they can’t possibly be on the whitelist, and the 7 Americans who were willing to pay silly money for them all got them a couple years ago.
Short answer says agassizii x agassizii works. Long answers is something along the lines of what we consider the species agassizii, is actually somewhere between 7 and god knows how many different species that all kind look alike.
Maybe reach out to Dr Anthony Mazeroll? Last we spoke he was trying to reproduce the pencil fish in ponds at his center in Peru. Pretty sure he could provide some first hand info on any Apistogramma bycatch.
Fish that probably eat fry (rasbora), fish that like caves(ancistrus)….I’d probably send the second male back. Tank is less than ideal for breeding a single pair….3-4 females turns into the bad type of circus pretty quick
Pretty much what’s been said above ^^^. I’ll let my ego out for a second….I’d consider myself in the 99th percentile when it comes to breeding SA cichlids, and I can say with absolute certainty I couldn’t get it done in 10 gallon tanks. 5 gallon tanks…. I’ve read about people who say they can...
Doesn’t really look to me like any of the fish you have listed will be very happy with hard, high pH water. I’d either dance with who I brought, and lean towards the Central American and african rift lake fish that would enjoy that water, or start budgeting for the equipment (RO filter) that...
They’re awfully flexible, the numbers you posted above are correct IMO, pH from 5-8, tds between 5-100 (10-200 us/cm). When I was breeding a bunch of them, folks that got fry reported successful spawns at 150ppm tds (300us/cm) and a pH near 8.
Congratulations! Interesting behavior….while the male borellii I kept also took charge of parading the fry around, it usually wasn’t until week three or four.
26 is not hot for borellii, the whole borellii are a “cool water fish” is completely made up. Being a fish from the south, they’re able to survive being “cool” (say 15* seasonally) , but you’ll also find those same fish in water that’s 32* at a different time of year. Years ago Ken Davis iirc...