My New Apistogramma Pair!

**Neurogen** · 10th Mar 2009, 22:21

Hi all,

My newly acquired apisto pair spawned in less than 4 hrs after purchased from the LFS!!!

Should i just leave it be or remove the male?

**mobile2007** · 10th Mar 2009, 23:38

Congrats, neurogen. Enjoy the pleasure of raising the fries and watching the fish caring the brood.

If the male is not too aggressive, you can let him be a good father in the tank.

It's a pair of agassizi "fire red" right?

**illumnae** · 11th Mar 2009, 00:09

It looks like a normal Ap agassizii "Super Red" variant

**Neurogen** · 11th Mar 2009, 00:26

Its Ap agassizii, but with regards to which sub-variant, i'm not too sure.

**Cacatuoides** · 11th Mar 2009, 00:48

Its a "Super Red" variant, not Fire Red

**illumnae** · 11th Mar 2009, 09:44

regardless of the variant, congrats on your spawn!

**Neurogen** · 11th Mar 2009, 14:38

Originally Posted by illumnae

regardless of the variant, congrats on your spawn!

Thank you!

**taygu** · 11th Mar 2009, 22:49

Originally Posted by Neurogen

Hi all,

Should i just leave it be or remove the male?

If the female is very aggressive towards the male, better to remove it and time to prepare BBS..

**Neurogen** · 12th Mar 2009, 22:52

The eggs were gone.

The female has eaten them! Anyway, i'm still preparing the BBS as i discovered my German rams has spawned without my knowledge! Tiny fries swimming around the parents now

**bettabetter** · 13th Mar 2009, 00:06

Sad to hear that, but congrats on your ram spawn. Anyway, can the parents be removed once the eggs have been laid so that any mishaps can be prevented?

**mobile2007** · 13th Mar 2009, 00:10

Check again, maybe the female has shifted the eggs elsewhere . It happened to me, my first pair of apisto actually shifted the eggs twice as i do not have any cave for them.

**joopsg** · 13th Mar 2009, 06:53

The eggs might have hatch.
Look around the female area.

**barmby** · 13th Mar 2009, 15:02

Huh.. So urgent 'meh' ?

**taygu** · 13th Mar 2009, 23:04

Originally Posted by Neurogen

The eggs were gone.

The female has eaten them! Anyway, i'm still preparing the BBS as i discovered my German rams has spawned without my knowledge! Tiny fries swimming around the parents now

The female will be aggressive if the eggs has hatched.

Use a stick to test, lower the stick towards the female slowly, is she attacked the stick, its means that the eggs has hatched, if she run away, the eggs is gone..