EvolutionZ's Apistogramma agassizii "red-black"

**EvolutionZ** · 10th Mar 2008, 22:43

wow.. thats quite long..
anyway guys, i guess i had the apisto posion in my blood now..
rescaping my 1ft cube tank tomorrow.. keeping apisto for that..
i should be shifting this agasizzi to the 1ft cube and get a female from limchongyu.. since illumnae bro said that biotope have a tank of young rio mamore.. i guess i'll get that for my 2ft.
any advice? im still very new in apisto.. haha..
anyway limchongyu bro.. you got pm =)

**iwishweallcouldwin** · 10th Mar 2008, 23:24

welcome to the club, you are hereby officially poisoned. be warned, before you even know what hit you, your apisto poison would have soared to great great heights, beyond your wildest imagination...

**EvolutionZ** · 10th Mar 2008, 23:30

you are scaring me bro....
haha.. i guess i'll need to train self control! haha..
tomorrow im going shopping to get stuffs for the 1ft cube rescaped.. since i going biohome inside my filter.. i guess cycling for 1week should be done..
will have 6 - 8 boraras in the tank as dither..

**iwishweallcouldwin** · 11th Mar 2008, 00:26

haha relax man its not that bad... as long as got self control can already... but seriously, enjoy keeping your new apistos!

**EvolutionZ** · 13th Mar 2008, 15:58

haha.. thanks bro..
anyway.. i got this food few days ago..
NLS .5mm pellets.. can use years since this is quite a big bottle.

picture taken after 50% WC.. when im doing the WC, this guy got freaked out and went hiding among my blxya.. he went almost colourless.. was very worried about him..
was glad to see him out after the water change..

anyway.. rescaped my 1ft cube yesterday.. will be shifting this guy to the 1ft cube in a week's time.. then i'll get a female from chong yu..

**EvolutionZ** · 15th Mar 2008, 19:57

heres a sleeping picture of him..

anway.. seems like limchongyu bro sold out his female agaissizzi..
any recomandation of apisto for my 1ft cube?
im currently looking at ap. biteaniata and ap. agasizzi 'tefe'

**illumnae** · 15th Mar 2008, 20:00

depends on whether you like broad or slim body, long back or front dorsal, spear or lyraete tail =) Ap. agassizii is the former and Ap. bitaeniata is the latter.

overall, i find Ap. bitaeniata to be the more beautiful fish. Both are equally easy to breed but Ap. bitaeniata fry take longer to grow so if your purpose is to breed for profit, then it's not as good a choice.

**EvolutionZ** · 15th Mar 2008, 22:22

thanks illumnae for your advice.. but well, since chongyu bro had reserved a female for me, i'll take his female then =) will go get a male for my 2ft.

**EvolutionZ** · 21st Mar 2008, 20:46

hi guys! an update on this fierce little guy
why i say fierce? because recently.. he ocupied the left half of the tank. any sparking gouramis(chasing my boraras as well) who try to enter the left half of my tank will get chased.. but i guess he allowed the boraras and algae cleaners to pass through?

either he is scared of my face or he is scared of cameras

guarding his territory...

check out his long dorsal!

anyway. today i finished rescaping my 1ft cube. tank should be ready by next week since i got biohome inside.
will get a male for this tank or maybe even a pair(illumnae is posioning me to get a pair for my 2ft

)

thanks for viewing

**iwishweallcouldwin** · 21st Mar 2008, 20:53

love his long dorsal

**EvolutionZ** · 21st Mar 2008, 21:13

thanks bro.. i love it as well. anyway to let him curb over his shyness? everytime i feed them with NLS pellets, this guy would go hiding among the blyxa japonica.. ended up i have to drop extra food or wait for him to come out so that he can eat the food..

**iwishweallcouldwin** · 21st Mar 2008, 21:25

hmmm my shy apistos all can't resist NLS everytime i feed... i feed them pellet by pellet so that no pellets will touch the gravel. but as someone advised me, to make apistos more active can try stepping up the frequency of water changes? i'm not really sure about the rationale though, and never made an effort to really try this method out so i'm not too sure. nonetheless apistos are shy fishes who love hiding places by nature!

**EvolutionZ** · 21st Mar 2008, 21:50

haha.. okay.. i do WC 50% weekly. cause im using EI dosage for my 2ft tank. you guys think i should get a pair of apisto for this tank? really tempted....

**illumnae** · 21st Mar 2008, 21:56

apistos are foragers as well, as long as some reach the ground, you can be sure they will be picked up later when noone's around

**EvolutionZ** · 21st Mar 2008, 22:12

yup.. thats why i always drop some on the GeX soil for him..

**iwishweallcouldwin** · 21st Mar 2008, 23:39

yup... thats what they do for my bloodworms... but if i have to time i'll always feed them one pellet at a time! this is called bonding haha... spending more time with the fish