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Grasping for air was meant as a matter of speech, but is inaccurate of course. Heavy breathing, as you call it, is equally worrisome I would say. Too much carbondioxide or too little oxygen?
Aeration can be tried.
Did you put a lot of dead wood and leaves at once in the tank?
My 30 days old A.sp. Juruá have lived on BBS only until 3 days ago. I now alternate a BBS meal with a meal of the tiniest cyclops. It is excellent exercise for the fry as cyclops are fast and often successfully avoid being eaten. The fry have to really hunt for a meal. It is a pleasure to see...
November and December last year I was lucky enough to get hold of 4 A. psammophila, (of which I sent some pictures before, when they were still minute). Three males and one female I can now establish. Furthermore A. sp. Jurua (sp. cruzeiro), a couple and A. flebellicauda, a couple. The A...
I recently came across a Japanese Imperial oak (Quercus dentata) from which I have a lot of leaves now. The leaves are up to 30-40 cm long, thick and hairy.
I have started using them in my tanks mainly because they make excellent sight barriers and hiding places.
What I should have started...
A week ago I was fortunate, very much so, to be able to buy 4 young, less than 2 cm sized, Apistogramma psammophila.
This Apistogramma (or diplotaenia) was high on my wishlist. They are F1's. The parentstock is from Rio Atabapo, Colombia.
They are small. They are presently being fed live...
Thanks for your input MacZ. I have only 1 compound walnut leaf in a160 litre tank. Such a leaf is like a twig with five leaves attached really. Besides: it was not fresh, but dry and brittle. Leaves I use most are oak leaves. And I use some alder cones now and again.
That's what I read as well: these leaves being fed to shrimp. I have uses some walnut leaves since a few weeks. Your remark worried me a bit. I m reassured now, but will keep my eyes open. Thanks. I have both walnut-(Juglans regia) and oak (Quercus robur) trees in my garden.
Cheers Jacobus
Darrel,
A question on an 11 year old piece of advice from your side: For what reason would you definitely not use walnut leaves in an Apisto tank?
Thanks Jacobus
Phoned the fish store where I bought the fish.
They do not have any information on the catch location at all.
So this does not bring us any further. Pity.
Mike's photo of Julio Melgar's fish is indeed something else: no coloured eye, only yellow pectorals, and
the fish shows most of all blue notes, whereas mine is having more orange. But that might not be a decisive point?
It remains a puzzle. I'll try to get more info on the origin.
That is what bothered me as well: the absence of yellow pectorals (which look nice indeed) and the red ringed eye. These two are really good, well defined determination points, which are clearly missing.
I agree with you on the fact that they do not belong to the ortegai-, but rather the cruzi...