mictok's Apistogramma viejita 'Gold' spawned

[mictok]

Hi all,just confirmed that the pair had spawned when I shine the touchlight into the cave where the female is hidding for the past few days.
Keep my finger cross,saw less than 10 eggs inside,not sure can raise up how many of them to juvenile.
Common problem happen again,tank not enough.........

one 1ft tank to hold the viejita female and eggs
one 1ft tank to hold the viejita male and agassizii super red pair
one plasma tank to hold 30 plus agassizii super red juvenile
I need more tank.................

[illumnae]

haha story of an apisto keeper's life: not enough tanks!

congrats on your spawn. don't shine your torch into the cave anymore, or you might startle the female into eating her eggs. judging from the number of eggs, your pair is probably still young and inexperienced. you'll get more eggs with future spawns

[thanantosis]

oh, i keep shining into the cafe too, i guess im just too excited. hope that some of my fries is still alive...

mine lay about 15 egg or so. whats their normal number of eggs?

[benetay]

There is no definite number of eggs but a range . If i still can recall A.caca can easily have up to 120 eggs per clutch. The only exceptional few are the smaller apisto like diplo,tri, etc .

I believe it's more dependent on size? I don't have A.tri having 120 eggs( can the female hold so many?) i doubt so.

Generally Viej should have around 60-80 at lease considering their size. A.diplo are said to have an avg of 40 eggs or so.

Cheers!

[mictok]

It is the 1st spawn so I dont expect a big batch.Bought it back on 2nd jan and it spawn within 2 weeks time.The male has slight defect on the mouth so not sure whether it will affect the next generation,any advice out there?

[trident]

mictok,
congrats on your spawn.
buy more tanks? buy a bigger house? hahaha
we all face the same problem.

[mictok]

Hi Richard,
Trying to sell my house now,the female may be stress by the people coming for viewing as I need to switch on the light which is not usually on at night.
My wife allow me to re-organised the tank which means better setup for keeping Apistogramma.
I will be getting Nikon 40X next week so can start shoting my collection.
I will PM you for some lesson on taking good shot on the fishes.

[reebok4190]

You need more tank? How about going down C328, saw quite a few small ones... nice and economy... Seems like you are going to be apisto breeder.. . Shine touchlight into the cave.. Wow.. seems like you are playing Indiana Jones venturing the cave for the holy grail... Show us your pix.. you must be excited I must say..time to change your nick Mictok... The Apistos Breeder..

Hi all,just confirmed that the pair had spawned when I shine the touchlight into the cave where the female is hidding for the past few days.
Keep my finger cross,saw less than 10 eggs inside,not sure can raise up how many of them to juvenile.
Common problem happen again,tank not enough.........

one 1ft tank to hold the viejita female and eggs
one 1ft tank to hold the viejita male and agassizii super red pair
one plasma tank to hold 30 plus agassizii super red juvenile
I need more tank.................

[Thirteen]

Hi, apisto fans, i'm curious with regards the juveniles. Does it means when they grow older, you need to seperate the males into individual tanks just like how they do with fighting fishes? Otherwise they will flare and bite at each other correct?

[mictok]

Hi, apisto fans, i'm curious with regards the juveniles. Does it means when they grow older, you need to seperate the males into individual tanks just like how they do with fighting fishes? Otherwise they will flare and bite at each other correct?

Not at the 1st few month when they are in juvenile stage.I have a batch of 30 plus is housing in a single tank now for the last 3 month.I dont think that they are as aggressive as fighting fish.

[Thirteen]

oh i see... Any idea how many months before they are consider adults and requires segregate into groups? Are they raising of fries and juveniles similar to the luohan fishes?

[doubleace]

congratulation.. your apisto had spawn.. mictok, time to have spare tanks when they grown up.

[benetay]

oh i see... Any idea how many months before they are consider adults and requires segregate into groups? Are they raising of fries and juveniles similar to the luohan fishes?

Thirteen please do not refer apisto to luohan it' just doesn't make any sense. Anyway there are a lot of information on the forum, it has been answered countless time.

Cheers!