Your Favourite Apistogramma!

[marle]

Won't the live brine shrimps themselves carry disease too? Or are brine shrmps themselves always disease free?

I got myself FBW from Nature Aquarium. Wanted to get Frozen Brine Shrimps(if available in the market) but they do not carry those there.

[doppelbanddwarf]

Live brineshrimps are saltwater organisms and less likely to carry diseases which affect freshwater fishes directly. However from experience if the brineshrimp are dead when fed, it may still cause internal bacterial infections. I also make it a point to make sure none of the water in the bag of brineshrimp gets into my tank.

Tubifex on the other hand are often found in polluted waters and often carry pathogens.

[marle]

Live brineshrimps are saltwater organisms and less likely to carry diseases which affect freshwater fishes directly. However from experience if the brineshrimp are dead when fed, it may still cause internal bacterial infections. I also make it a point to make sure none of the water in the bag of brineshrimp gets into my tank.

Tubifex on the other hand are often found in polluted waters and often carry pathogens.

aahhh. ok, that's very informative. I once keep adult brine shrimps to feed my apistos and fed them with spirulina.

For Adult brine shrimps - My Breitbinden, Mendezi and Pauciquamis likes it alot. But my Diplotaenia pair doesn't touch them.

For Frozen blood worms - My Breitbinden & Mendezi likes it but the Pauciquamis eats only a limited amount. The Diplotaenias still do not touch them.

The diplotaenias only likes to eat processed food such as NLS & ADA AP-2. The AP-2 is their favourite. I am still wondering why they don't like live food and prefer dried stuff.

[doppelbanddwarf]

I think that the safest way is to hatch your own bbs if you really must feed live food to your apistos. Otherwise for me, decap brineshrimp is as good as live bbs itself. When the decap bs swirls around in the current my apistos make a mad dash for it. I still feed them NLS pellets as a staple.

[Don90]

My diplo pair died within minutes last night after I added just a little bit of ketapang water....

[doppelbanddwarf]

Sad to hear that. Did you soak the leaves yourself to get ketapang water? I also soak ketapang leaves in containers before adding the water to the tank but have not encountered sudden death before.

[Don90]

I soaked the leaves in hot water with inside another container.

Then after the water cooled down abit, I poured some ketapang water in.

The apistos died real quick. Less than an hour.

[doppelbanddwarf]

Could it be a sudden change in temperature or pH or both?

[hengeli]

You can't just let the ketapang cool down a bit bro, it MUST be for more than 6 hours, ketapang leaves boiled is actually toxic, it leaches properties too quick thus becoming poisionous.

[SCOPE]

My diplo pair died within minutes last night after I added just a little bit of ketapang water....

what a loss.....actually using black water essence is safer or using peat from sera....

[marle]

Third spawn and biggest thus far. Think reason is because their daily diet for this pair is frozen bloodworm.

[marle]

Guys, just to share, i guess apistos really need tank space to breed. My diplotaenias were put in a tank size of 15cm. They built a cave and everything but breeding failed. 22cm, same thing happened and failed.

Gave them one whole 1.5 feet tank, they spawned. Learnt a valuable lesson here.

[SCOPE]

Guys, just to share, i guess apistos really need tank space to breed. My diplotaenias were put in a tank size of 15cm. They built a cave and everything but breeding failed. 22cm, same thing happened and failed.

Gave them one whole 1.5 feet tank, they spawned. Learnt a valuable lesson here.

i second this....with enough space for the male or female....female feel at ease and will thus breed easily

[barmby]

Cannot be more true. No more sudden death like female jumping out of tank and etc. They do need space to escape and stay away from the heat.

[iwishweallcouldwin]

Cannot be more true. No more sudden death like female jumping out of tank and etc. They do need space to escape and stay away from the heat.

"When the going gets tough, the tough gets jumping."

[EvolutionZ]

anyone feed crushed snails to your apisto?
i feed a few 0.1 - 0.5cm long small snails found in my planted tank. crush them with my pincer and drop infront of the my candidi.. he loves it.. even bigger 1cm pond snails he also love it.. will pui the shell out also.. haha..

[leeruisheng]

Ya read before in forum some apistogramma keepers seen their fishes eating snails.

[doppelbanddwarf]

I keep red ramshorn snails in my tanks. My A.usupesi cleared the whole tank of snails. Had to remove a lot of empty snail shells during water change.

[mobile2007]

I have mixed up some DIY apisto food 2 days ago, my apisto seems to love them. Color wise, don't think the results would be so immediate.

Ingredients includes market prawns paste( base), spirulina, copepods, decap bbs and some hikari pellets. Put them on aluminum foil and flattened them. Freeze them. Cut the pieces into small strip and feed them to the apisto.

Anyone got any advice or ideas/suggestions?

[EvolutionZ]

mine only know how to eat crushed one.. try dropping some not crushed ones infront of him.. eat and pui it out.. haha