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I am setting up a 600 gallon planted tank (7 x 3 x 4 ft) that will have a large sandy foreground area with wood mulch and botanicals. I also have in my fish room a group of 9 Dicrossus warzeli and another group of 10 Biotoecus (I can't remember if I got them as opercularis or dicentrarchus -...
I'm in the midst of resetting my 600 gallon tank, moving back to South American cichlids after 2 years of dabbling with Tanganyikans. I have an auto water change system set up that changes about 5% - 8% of water daily using RO water. Several years ago when utilizing this system (without...
I know many of us simulate biotope style tanks just using leaves and wood decoration, but for a more realistic look and feel, the substrate in such areas typically contain much more than just leaves - seed pods, tree bark, etc. Tannin Aquatics offers a curated selection, but they are always out...
I recently ordered some Apistogramma lineata from a Colombia shipment, as they have been particularly hard to find here in Singapore. The fish are still at the importer's facility so I don't have good pictures, but the importer just sent me a video of 2 males flaring at each other. What...
I'm thinking of trying out the Repashy line of gel foods for my dwarf cichlids (Ivanacara adoketa, Biotoecus opercularis and Dicrossus foirni), but am not sure which formula is most suitable for them. I've so far tried the Spawn & Grow with mixed results (the I. adoketa definitely don't attack...
Hi all, my LFS is getting in a shipment from Glazer and in the shipment are some German bred Ivanacara adoketa juveniles. I'm thinking of setting up a 24x18x18 (about 30 gallons) biotope tank for about 5-6 juveniles to raise them and hopefully eventually get a pair or two out of the group (I...
I recently purchased 2 pairs of C. regani and, having read the article on Mostly Cichlids that 6 adults can be kept in a 20 gallon tank, decided to keep both pairs in my 13 gallon lightly planted tank in office. I don't intend for them to breed and so I don't think I will encounter the levels...
I've got no pictures unfortunately :(
I've got a young piece of Ap. diplotaenia that was the female of a pair I bought. Recently, the male went missing, and following that the female coloured up alot, and developed orange tips on its ventrals. The female flares at the mirror/ditherfish. It...
With my recent acquisition of wild apistogramma (A. bitaeniata 'Tefe' and A. agassizii 'Tefe'), I will be setting up a Rio Tefe biotope tank. Tankmates currently included are a small school of 5 green discus. Can anyone help me identify other tankmates to make this an authentic biotope? I'm...
I have an opportunity to get a wild pair of these interesting fish. Can anyone share experiences on husbandry and/or breeding of these fish? I'm planning on keeping them with corydoras, otos and perhaps licorice gouramis in a planted tank with a sandy base.
are they hard to keep alive?
A shipment of wild D. filamentosus "Barcelos" came in over the weekend and by the time I got to the LFS, only 1 female was left. I was advised that a reverse trio was the way to go and so I happily left with 2 males and the sole female.
Now that they're in my tank, however, I'm feeling 3 is...
Hi, I was sold this wild fish as an Apistogramma agassizii "Tefe", but a comparison with available photos online seems to show that this isn't a Tefe, and I haven't been able to find anything similar enough to conclude what I got. Can anyone help?
does anyone have experience with male apistos not responding to obviously amorous females? my experience so far has always been the male hounding after the female to breed, and the breeding only occurring after the female finally gets in the mood.
i currently have a male, however, who has...
Some not very well taken photos of my new eliza. he's nothing special especially compared to the amazing elizas blueblue has, but i'm still really happy i got him :biggrin: I'm still unable to get pictures of him flaring, so here's him swimming around and exploring his new home (pictures were...