Reply With Quoteso many pairs you got for yourself.
last night i tried to catch all the tetras but fail. they hide under the plants.
hi bro Venom - yes, his doberman & french bulldog smell....& also licked my leg...lol. I must have just missed you because I stopped by at the noodle shop at Upper Thomson to have my dinner.
Aside from 2 pairs of Trifasciatas, I got a pair of Wilhelmi & 2 pairs of Hoigneis.
They will be OK with tetras. My tank is the one feet GEX tank - even smaller than yours. You have to be careful not to overload yr tank (I always make this mistake) & take into account that fishes will grow in size. With regards to type of tetras, actually I prefer neon (cardinal too expensive) as they are small. But, neons die easily so I put glowlight. Unfortunately, glowlight tetras grow quite large. Some of the bros recommend pencil fish - I find them too large.
so many pairs you got for yourself.
last night i tried to catch all the tetras but fail. they hide under the plants.
hi bro Venom
It's best not to disturb the fish if not necessary because it may stress them out. Put yourself in the place of the fish - suddenly see a big hand or net coming at you!!!
One way of avoiding stressing if you need to catch is to wait till night time, switch off the lights for a while & let the fish sleep. Then switch on the lights & quickly net the sleeping fish.
ok. thanks for the advice.
stressing them also stress me as worry will disturb the plants
any advice on what should I feed?
currently on tetrabits but only male eating
If you stay near c328, you can have a steady supply of live brine shrimp, if not frozen ones will do just fine, I feed frozen bloodworm and brine shrimp from time to time, and yes all my Apisto will take tetrabits
Regards,
Misery.
For most optimal in terms of cost, convenience & health of fish, here is what I recommend;
1) feed alternative days - live or frozen, alternate with dry food.
2) For dry food, I bought a $5 package of luohan pellets & pounded them to bits (I calculated cost me 1/4 of price if I were to feed them specialist pellets/ tetrabits)
3) for frozen food, I bought whole styloform boxes of bloodworms, brine shrimps & daphnias (can last for 3-4 months)
4) for live food (many people will disagree) - I buy tubifex worms & soak them (for 1-2 hours) in methylene blue before feeding & also live daphnias. Amazingly, I notice that the tubifex are still alive & peeping out of my ada soil after almost a week. I only buy live food if I happen to come across them
5) I also put about 5-6 Malayan or Cherry shrimps in each tank -their lavae are suppose to be good for apistos
As I have about 18 tanks, this saves me time & money.
I feed a mix of NLS pellets, ANS decap brineshrimp eggs and occasionally Hikari algae wafers.
chongyu
hi bro doppelbanddwarf - they eat algae wafers? I drop the wafers in, the Malayan shrimps eat. Where to get decap brineshrimp eggs?
Bro Edwin, c328 has them decap bbs eggs.. I believe it is easily attainable at most lfs..
Regards,
Misery.
Yes Y618 has them too. I raise all my apisto fry on decap bs. For fry especially you have to soak the decap bs for about five mins as they tend to expand when they soak up water.
The algae wafers are a bit hard. What I do is soak the algae wafers till they are soft and mash them together with the pellets and decap bs eggs.
chongyu
I guess I need to get some frogbits to make my tank not so bright..
hi bro Misery & Doppelbanddwarf - thanks for the info on decap brine shrimp eggs. Currently I do not have a problem there because....NO FRIES.
a short video of the tank.
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any sneaker male from the females?
hi bro Venom
Confirm 2 females. But...in some cases (for some fishes such as Grouper), when the dominant male dies, the alpha female changes sex. I read that some apistos do that too.
but the female will not be as nice as the real male.
bro Misery & Doppelbanddwarf - Correction to my earlier posting. Just came back from lunch & saw eggs in my office tank of agassizzi fire. Now must see if they are fertilized. But must go & get decap bs today - to play safe.
Agassizii fire red! Would love to buy some from you if spawning is a success.
chongyu
Bro venom, congrats on the tank residents!
Agassizi has always been my personal favorite, a sucker for the spade liked tail.
Haven't had any luck with my agassizi tefe, hopefully my agassizi flamenco will be ready for spawning soon 😁
Regards,
Misery.
show some picture of your tefe
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