New Tank for cichlids!

[sen_jie]

Senjie, hows your hongsloi from jit? Mine are already start to court and in breeding colors..

same here it is in breeding mood too. when i got it i saw only a little redness. but now the rednesss have alr covered 10% of the body female is yellowish too

but i need to find space for them. as they are sharing tank with Bernie's pair of hongsloi too.

[sen_jie]

Temporary set up for my apistogramma, (untill i managed to source for nice DW, this will be their temporary "furniture" at the moment)


My tenant:
taking the Corner left unit


Middle tenant.

[ciaossu]

wow nice tenant. may i know where you got them from?

[stormhawk]

sen_jie, nice and simple setup, however I'd suggest you get bigger sponge filters. This small one primarily for fry tanks, will not be sufficient for filtration in the long term.

[doppelbanddwarf]

Looking good. You might want to put some floaters like frogbits or hornswort to shade a bit of the light. I got plenty to spare so if you don't mind coming to Yishun I can pass you some.

[sen_jie]

Ciaossu: i got the papagei from Bernie and the left piece also belongs to Bernie just that i help to foster it at the time being haha

Stormhawk: will do so, i am looking at hanging my Eden canister at the back of the tank soon, but well maybe will start "operation" when my papers are over. In the meantime i shall be more hardworking and do 2x weekly water change

Chongyu: thanks for the kind gesture, but yishun is kind of far from me (i am lazy ) Shall collect some from GC when i passby there on sat evening.

Anyway i just gotten some bogwood from a forumer. New scape on the way! (Awaiting for the bogwood to sink)

Does anybody have a fast method to remove the blue green algae from bogwood? the bluegreen algae is on the bogwood and dried up since 3 years ago

[sen_jie]

Last night saw that my females are very aggressive and went to take a peep. Apparently my Hongsloi females had spawn and took the fries out for a walk

then i saw her flaring at my papagei female who have also turned yellow, and also brought her fries out for a walk too

both are first time parents and very young female. Thus far thi only managed to count around 10 fries from each of the honsgloi and the papagei spawn

[mer2623]

Wow..congrats bro

[doppelbanddwarf]

Congrats bro!

[Aquanoob]

Congrats Senjie. Your Hongsloi very hardworking, my side no good news yet.

[Jitticus]

holy crap.... !
congrats senjie!

[ciaossu]

congrats man

[doppelbanddwarf]

With so many hobbyists getting A.hongsloi from Jitticus, lets hope we have a good line of this species going on this side of the causeway soon.

[sen_jie]

Spot the frys!

[stormhawk]

Can see 3 fry at least in the last pic. Congrats sen_jie. This one should be the papagei?

[Lexz_10]

Congrats bro

[sen_jie]

Can see 3 fry at least in the last pic. Congrats sen_jie. This one should be the papagei?

Yup there are around 8 fry. These are hongsloi babies. didnt managed to snap the pictures of the papagei.

[anarchy78]

Wow i envy your set uP bro very nice congrats with your apisto! im also starting to keep apistos really interesting fish

[sen_jie]

Wow i envy your set uP bro very nice congrats with your apisto! im also starting to keep apistos really interesting fish

thanks for the kind comments

yea without doubt they are very interesting fishes. Welcome you to the apisto - world

[sen_jie]

Latest update, papagei fries all gone -_-"

hongsloi fries have a total headcount of 10