Reply With Quote1ft tank?? bioload is currently max out. Unless you want to keep the boraras with the Dicrossus filamentosus together with the otos will be good. never try to keep shrimp with them.
hey does anyone have tips on rearing and even breeding of Dicrossus filamentosus, also known as the checkerboard cichlid?
I just got a pair of them from biotope. I keep them with some green cherry shrimps and 2 Corydoras pygmaeus in a 1ft tank with lots of indian almond leaves and plants. Planning to add in some Boraras maculata too. Is that advisable?
oh. i have one oto too. hehe.. forgot
Last edited by Justikanz; 1st Oct 2006 at 23:38.
1ft tank?? bioload is currently max out. Unless you want to keep the boraras with the Dicrossus filamentosus together with the otos will be good. never try to keep shrimp with them.
Last edited by Justikanz; 3rd Oct 2006 at 14:50.
Just picked up a pair myself.Currrently in the tank with some altums and they seem to do quite well.
Eric
Looks like its time to get a bigger tank.
thanks for all your comments.. i moved them to a 2ft tank with the oto and the 2 corys
Cory will eat up their eggs i want to warn you. if you intend to breed them.
Last edited by Justikanz; 6th Oct 2006 at 16:06. Reason: 'u' is a letter, not a word...
hmm these corys are the pygmy ones, hardly larger than 1cm.
The Dicrossus filamentosus's eggs are also quite small.
Have listened to the advie of the bros here and moved the 2 cories away. Heard that it is very difficult to breed checkerboards though.
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Get a school of them and let them pair up naturally. One of my favourite species, used to keep them in 6 but did not see them pair up. But I had mixed them with some other apisto species too.
Last edited by Justikanz; 8th Oct 2006 at 02:54.
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well, i managed to get them to spawn. But the eggs got eaten up. They just need ADA aquasoil, driftwood, most important is the live feed to condition them. My pair spawn immediately the next day after a day of live feed.
Something to add; try to get the most stunning looking male to breed because the female are very visual fish. They choose the more handsome one. i kept a reverse trio in a 2ft.
Last edited by Justikanz; 9th Oct 2006 at 13:51.
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