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I am new at this breeding thing but I am trying to get a system established, and I want to hear what your systems are.
First, I put a pair of apistos in a 10 gallon tank. No substrate, but plants attached to driftwood, some caves, and a sponge filter and heater.
Second, they spawn. Yay!
Third, I notice that dad may be picking off babies. This has happened to me with two borellii spawns and one cacatuoides spawn. Each time I have pulled the male and put him in a 10 gallon tank all by himself. (What a waste of tank space. . .)
Fourth, babies grow up. Slooooowly.
Fifth, I remove the driftwood, fiter, and caves and catch the babies with a big net, and put them in a 20 gallon growout tank. Then dad can rejoin Mom.
Is this similar to your techniques? Should I bother transferring the babies to the 20 gallon, or just leave them to grow up in their original tank? And at what size will the babies be too big for adult apistos to eat them? (If I out dad in the grow out tank to get him away from his own babies, will he eat the larger babies in the 20?)
First, I put a pair of apistos in a 10 gallon tank. No substrate, but plants attached to driftwood, some caves, and a sponge filter and heater.
Second, they spawn. Yay!
Third, I notice that dad may be picking off babies. This has happened to me with two borellii spawns and one cacatuoides spawn. Each time I have pulled the male and put him in a 10 gallon tank all by himself. (What a waste of tank space. . .)
Fourth, babies grow up. Slooooowly.
Fifth, I remove the driftwood, fiter, and caves and catch the babies with a big net, and put them in a 20 gallon growout tank. Then dad can rejoin Mom.
Is this similar to your techniques? Should I bother transferring the babies to the 20 gallon, or just leave them to grow up in their original tank? And at what size will the babies be too big for adult apistos to eat them? (If I out dad in the grow out tank to get him away from his own babies, will he eat the larger babies in the 20?)