Re: Apistogramma Agassizii

by **kizno1** on Mon Nov 09, 2009 8:03 pm

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by **kizno1** on Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:42 am

im going to try a trio of guppys in with them i got them last night and put them in the breeding trap for a few days so the apisto get use to them hopefully. its a short fin male so hopefully the apisto wont nip its tail. they seem fine with them they where displaying a bit at the start but they seem to of calmed down no but im going to leave thm in there for a few more days just to be sure.

by **kizno1** on Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:01 pm

the apisto really hated the guppys and one of the males and a female died but i got 2 more females and 2 more males (2m 3f) and i have them in a 5g and im droping the tank temp by 1c every other day untill there cold enough to go in the biord thats cold water but never gose below 15c at nigh in the winter and is about 20c in the day so they will be fine in that.

by **kizno1** on Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:26 pm

i got 5 serpae tetras to go with them in exchange for my mollys and platys from my 30g. the female apisto dosnt mind them and the male keeps chacing them away but not trying to bit them he just dont want them near him but there better with these than with the guppys.
i got a few pics but there on my phone and they wouldnt stop moving around so there not to good
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by **jasminek** on Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:40 pm

There lovely! Smile

Hope it works out!

by **kizno1** on Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:41 pm

same but they seem fine atm :]

by **kizno1** on Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:22 pm

there both getting big now the female is 2" and the male is 3" and there fine with the tetras they still get the odd chase if they get to close when there feeding. there starting to settle down now though after adding the tetras so hopefully they might spawn aging soon they havent in a while and hopefully they wont eat them this time. :]

by **kizno1** on Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:54 pm

they have really settled down with the killis and pygmy corys. im hopeing they might breed again soon because the females looking a little fat and theres been alot of displaying in the last few day and hopefully they wont eat the eggs this time.

by **Dreaming Moonlily** on Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:11 am

That's good that they are calming down. We had some German rams with the kribs and everything was fine until the kribs started breeding. They were really good parents other than killing off the tank mates when they started getting territorial.

We had quite a few babies survive even though we weren't trying to breed, ended up selling them all to the LFS.

by **kizno1** on Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:33 pm

I manged to get another female aswell they seem to have calmed down alot and dont really attack anything in the tank evan the pygmy corys. I really dont like kribs there extreamly agressive when big and breeding. You should never keep rams and kribs together for 2 reasons 1) rams are New World Cichlids and kribs are African / Old World Cichlids They dont mix well and 2) rams need to be kept at between 28-32C and kribs need to be between 24-26C

by **Dreaming Moonlily** on Fri Jun 18, 2010 7:02 pm

Ahh good to know!! And I was busy and school so I wasn't sure what happened to the rams. Turns out by boyfriend caught was happening before they got injured and sold them back to the LFS

by **kizno1** on Fri Jun 18, 2010 7:07 pm

Yh kribs can be extremely aggressive good you caught them in time.

by **kizno1** on Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:14 pm

I just found one of the females dead. I dont have a clue why it looks perfectly healthy apart from a few nipped fins but that was properly after death. Ive got a feeling it was my older female that has spawned with the male so thats a little anoying.

by **Netty** on Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:17 pm

So sorry Kizno Sad

by **kizno1** on Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:18 pm

It was defently the older one ive just seen the other one. The other one is looking a little pale now aswell im a bit worried i hope i dont loose themboth.

by **kizno1** on Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:19 pm

Netty wrote:So sorry Kizno

Thanks
i just dont have a clue what it was it still looked like it should be swimming about. No signs of illnes at all.

by **Netty** on Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:32 pm

Do you think the new female could have brought something in?

by **kizno1** on Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:42 pm

I think the 2 females might of had a fight the one left loos a little nipped on the fins so i recone she might have bullied the other to death because there ways some chunks of fin missing on the other one. It doesnt look like it was a disease or illness that killed it.

by **Netty** on Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:48 pm

Well I hope she perks up soon. Maybe now the other is gone she'll settle back down again.

by **kizno1** on Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:54 pm

Hopefully. On the plus i think my pepper and pygmy corys might spawn i just saw the T position and the males are chasing the females and shes shacking against the glass and wood.