I want to share some pics of the Apistogramma that I'm currently housing and I want to see yours.
Pics 1&2 - Apistogramma Agassizii Fire red
Pics 3&4 - Apistogramma Baenschi also referred to as the Inka 50
Pic 5 - Apistogramma Erythrura Mamore
Pics 6&7 - Apistogramma Borelli
Pic 8 - Apistogramma Cacatuoides Triple Red fry
Hope you enjoy and I look forward to seeing your Apisto's....
So glad you posted these, they're all beautiful! Thinking of redoing my 40b after the holidays with Apisto's. Wasn't sure which ones yet.
I have to do a bit more research. I did have Kribs a while back and they bred a few times.
Sadly no, the male came down with something and didn't last long after that. When that happend I moved the female to a friends tank that had a lonely male. Haven't really had the opportunity to get another pair but is really don't need to with the fry I have. I've been raising them for months but they just grow sooooo slow.
That's a stunning male you have there. Wish I could get some better photos but I'm not so hot with a camera.
Love these guys, they maybe the best Apistos when it comes to character. I can't wait until these fry grow out so I can have a pair in my 40. Also feel the pain, my male Fire Red has dropsy and I don't think he's going to make it.
How old would you say that fish is? I bought what was supposed to be some triple reds a while back from someone who is reputable in the hobby. But what I got were essentially fry and not juveniles and now a few months later I'm really doubting they're triple reds.
Just found this thread! I love apistos as well! Am raising a spawn of the cacatuides triple red as well, and thought it was just me that they grow so slow. Mine are 5 months old and starting to get their color.
Also have 7 young borelli hoping to breed soon and a pair of fire reds that will not do anything for me.
My first pair of fire reds would do absolutely nothing and I had them for a year before the male took the leap of faith. I've heard that agies are finicky when it comes to pairing up. The fire red posted in the pics died on Christmas Eve from dropsy. This weekend I'm picking up 2 pair that will be going into the 40b biotope along with my remaining female.
The biggest issue I have with these fry is getting them transitioned over to flake food. I did get them some Hikari blood worms and they crush them, since I've started with the blood worms they've been gaining size steadily.
Here is an attempt of a macro pic of my Super Red Cacatuoides. Still need some practice with macro photography. Honestly, my all time favorite fish. Next would be German Blue Rams Glad to see others enjoy Apistos just as much!
Aww they look great! Just starting to color up too. It looks like you have a good mix of males and females. When I breed kribs I tend to get skewed sex ratios. Way too many males. Probably some sort of a temperature or water parameter difference when the eggs are developing.
Most pistos throw 1:1 @ 26c.
At 29c the skew to5:1 in favor of males...Yea guess why I went to investigate ??
Other pistos are a effected by PH in the very same way....
BUT you have DAYS to move the eggs to the temp/ph that would give you the ratio you desire....
I was reading up on all this in Romers cichlid atlas part1...
Gorgeous fish! They don't look like that in the store, so I rarely see them purchased. Just a note: Not sure if a typo, but I've seen it three times at least in your posts - it's Apistogramma hongsloi, not A. hongslio.
I don't have any Apistos now, but years ago I used to have a mated pair of Goldeneye Dwarf ciclids, (Nannacara anomala) and a mated pair of Checkerboard dwarf ciclids (Dicrossus filamentosus).
The Nannacara moms are incredibly psycho. It was fun watching her being hyper-vigilant in a 32 gal tank of Flame and Glowlite Tetras. You could tell where she and her little magic carpet of babies were by where all the Tetras weren't.
I just found this forum, and this thread, what amazing apistos!
I'm relatively new to the hobby, and very new to apistos. I have two juveniles, one I'm sure is a male and the other, smaller one, I'm not so sure about yet. They're such personable fish, I never knew there was such a thing. Here are my two Apistogramma Cacatuoides:
I bought them from my LFS. They had gotten quite a few from a local breeder a couple weeks before I had come in. They were in a tank with many other juveniles and looked almost identical, except for one being slightly bigger than the other.
I understand I'm taking a chance, but if it turns out to be another male, or a female that my male doesn't take kindly to, I have another tank it could go in. I really would rather not take it back, I feel so bad when I do.
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