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Thanks mike.
Mine was wild caugth from rio caete, few years back.
this was amazing, by they school behavior, not the most colorful fish i see , but cute and very gentle with fry.
i manage to have 4 generation in 15g heavyly planted and i did see any agression between them
amazing.
i dont know about bacteria , but my observation (nothing scientific) since i kept apisto, is less you hand in the water less problems you got.
I have A. macmasteri , A. viejita , T. candidi in tank who is heavyly planted and i see the fish 1 or 2 times a days not more when the come eat or...
nice.
i usually call that the symptom of "move to new" with all my apisto.
i used to do that when nothing else work :)
the result is not so bad so far 70% of success.
i would say if they are young give them time and tries.
but 8.5 g is a bit small even if i already successfully breed some apisto in 10g
the bottom surface is more important than the volume (in my opinion).
i would say also 7.2 is a bit high , but for czech fish , can be possible at the PH.
actually
never see wild cacatoo with lot of orange on tail, and as mike said most of the wild shippement i had see are greyish or blueish.
even if wild shippement always reserve me surprise , i doubt it is a wild fish