Back into Apistos.. with a slight problem

[stormhawk]

Some better pictures of the eremnopyge pair:



Ap. eremnopyge "Río Pintuyacu" - Male



Ap. eremnopyge "Río Pintuyacu" - Female

Finally settled in. The male has been flaring daily at the trifasciata male to the left partition. He ignores the male bitaeniata in the right partition. Female has been flaring almost always at the bitaeniata female.

[SCOPE]

Some better pictures of the eremnopyge pair:



Ap. eremnopyge "Río Pintuyacu" - Male



Ap. eremnopyge "Río Pintuyacu" - Female

Finally settled in. The male has been flaring daily at the trifasciata male to the left partition. He ignores the male bitaeniata in the right partition. Female has been flaring almost always at the bitaeniata female.

Nice photos....hope you breed them soon

[stormhawk]

Working on it.

The female was showing some signs of a breathing problem. I took her out and treated her, so far she's responding well to medication. Going to observe her over the next 2-3 days. Dosed the tank with some Sera Protazol since I suspect there might be external parasites in the tank. I hope she'll be fine tomorrow.

[Luc Tango]

nice fishes acquired bro. I think you should upgrade your tanks soon eh, probably going to get a few more pairs?

[stormhawk]

Thanks for the compliments Luc.

Nope no more fish for now. I have enough as it is. Must always know the limit otherwise there will be issues later on.

[burpz]

Agree with you on this... Trying hard to resist the apistopoison...

[SCOPE]

haha! i am still kenna poisoned for the last 10 years...simply hard to resist

[joopsg]

The only way to cure this posion is to stop keeping fish.

[burpz]

That might proof even harder...

[cory]

Think the best way to counter apisto poison is to contract other poisons like plecs or cory poison .... think I caught all 3

[burpz]

Haha... 1 poison is enough...

[cory]

Get more poisons then they will spread out evenly, and not so deadly.

[burpz]

Countering poison with poison I see....

[stormhawk]

Too much poison is bad at times, not just on the wallet, but on the space available at home.

I lost several of the caca in my main 4 ft tank. It's having a minor BGA attack at the moment so I'm going with the blackout method for now. Once that tank re-stabilises and I replant some new plants, I'll probably get some new apistos for that tank. Until then the single Triple Red female is the only apisto survivor there. I was thinking of getting some baenschi for that tank instead.

In any case, the eremnopyge female pulled through. Today I saw her cruising around looking for food as per normal, so I'm glad I did not have to face another casualty.

[cory]

Hope your tank will stablise soon storm, and remember to show us pics of your 4ft tank after the rescape.

How about apisto amadeus in the 4 footer? I can spare you few if the frys manage to grow to survive for 2 months

[stormhawk]

Thanks for the offer cory, but I'm still observing the 4 footer for now. I had some fish deaths in that tank. Several of my Corydoras habrosus, Boraras, all 4 of my killies and 3 caca died in there. Uptil now I'm still stumped as to what happened. Probably a bacterial infection, since my aga female died some time ago. I think it might be due to something that I was feeding my fish with.

In any case, no more deaths to date and the sole female caca left in the tank is doing well, along with the surviving dwarf cory and Otos. Funny thing is, during the die off, my 2 Sakura shrimp in the tank, my 3 Otos, 6 Assassin Snails were totally unaffected.

[Wackytpt]

The only way to cure this posion is to stop keeping fish.

Don't talk so much... ahaa... When are you coming back =p

[joopsg]

Don't talk so much... ahaa... When are you coming back =p

Hope by next year lor..
When I can afford to get my own place to rebuild my interest.
My Apistogramma Empire
My Apistogramma Coy?

Every time drooling when Joe released his apistogrammas for us to grab.
Very poisonous to my pocket also.

[Wackytpt]

Hope so man.

I am "retired" already from apisto.

Remember our mouth bruther apisto project? =p

[joopsg]

Serious?
I seriously hope Joe can get hold of some pairs of A. Barlowi for me when i come back.

of course i remember. But it is very hard to get.
Maybe can do Candidi project or Baeschi Project.
Uaupesi is also good.