Dicrossus maculatus

[Heiko Bleher]

Hi,

this is Heiko again and I just wanted to say:
please give them fine white sand and some places to hide, which I cannot see on the photos), as it is very important. i.e. driftwood, ceramic pots, etc.

Best regards and keep up the good work,

Heiko

[leeruisheng]

Hello Heiko,

I've since changed my tank setup for D. maculatus. http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ad.php?t=37501 Not completed yet. Will be creating more hiding spaces. Thanks for the advices.

[nicktc]

Hi,

this is Heiko again and I just wanted to say:
please give them fine white sand and some places to hide, which I cannot see on the photos), as it is very important. i.e. driftwood, ceramic pots, etc.

Best regards and keep up the good work,

Heiko

Hi Heiko, is there any particular reason for the usage of fine white sand. I am currently housing mine in a substrate consisting of 3mm black quartz from Dennerle.

Attched is a picture of my setup. It house another pair of pelvicachromis Taeniatus which I have plans to remove.

Thanks
Nicholas

[nicktc]

More pictures of my pair, male is about 2.5 inch and female almost 2 inch.

[hwchoy]

vincent, still refuse to flare without the mirror huh?


nicktc, probably their natural habitat has fine light coloured sandy substrate.

[apistomaster]

D. maculatus like to sift bottom sand and so using finer sand allows them to do that. They seem to like to do a fair amount of digging, perhaps more than most Apistogramma spp. All these natural behaviors are impossible for them to do if your substrate is too coarse grained.

[nicktc]

D. maculatus like to sift bottom sand and so using finer sand allows them to do that. They seem to like to do a fair amount of digging, perhaps more than most Apistogramma spp. All these natural behaviors are impossible for them to do if your substrate is too coarse grained.

Thank you for the tip.

[Heiko Bleher]

Hi,
this is Heiko and Apistomaster already mentioned it, they are used to it it is in their gene, that is why.

In addition if you have some leafs would be perfect, because they live over sand and rotten leafs. Like most Apistogrammas (their mates in most habitats) - see my website lates biotopes, I placed them in an aquarium with leafs and 1 hours later they started to sapwn.

All the best, from the one who colelcted the first ones...

Heiko Bleher
www.aquapress-bleher.com