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Yes it was me who made the boo boo. Same genus but different species. I did not think they could breed successfully. There has been no successful spawning or even egg deposits so far. If hybrids are created they will live and die in this tank. There is no chance any would enter the real water world.

At the moment I’m on a SouthWest flight heading to Los Angeles. I splurged and bought WiFi access. My dinner is a cheddar cheese sandwich on Dave’s bread. I’m drinking a glass of airplane red wine to accompany my sandwich. This is real living.

Real beauties!

Can a. cacatuoides and a. hongsloi be kept in the same tank without risk of creating hybrid offspring?

I have gotten white foam in the bag from The Wet Spot.

How about trying to place a redwood or sequoia in a tank. 😀

Three weeks after my Apistogramma Cacatuoides pair arrived they spawned and there were fry in the tank. However these first time parents were not properly “instructed” in parental care. The male did a poor job keeping marauding invaders away who were looking for an easy snack. Then I caught mom...

This is a post for the few of you who have nitrate levels coming from your municipal or well water. This is a continuation of a previous thread. My well water has a nitrate concentration of approximately 30 ppm. One practical solution would be to install a R/O system. If I had chosen that path...

We are heading out to Los Angeles to spend Thanksgiving week with my son. I fed my fish a little extra this week in preparation for their week long fast. I will perform water changes in all five tanks today.

I agree. My 20 gallon long has black sand whereas my 60 gallon has beige sand. While the fish in both tanks are beautiful, the fish in the 20 gallon really pop. I have black vinyl on the backside of both tanks.

My CPDs haven’t bred in the two years they have been with me. I may have gotten only one sex. They are all as colorful as Amazon parrots so I assume all males.

The p. pulcher female is revealing herself more often. She arrived an ugly duckling but has now colored up. The a. thomasi rule the tank.

Thanks. Good pick up. I learned something.

Looks like a CPD to me. I have CPDs in the same tank as dwarf emerald raspora. See pic.

Apistogramma cacatuoides meet inside a coconut cave and do their thing. She leaves the cave and then he leaves.

My mother-in-law

I agree with you Captain. The few cognoscenti on this forum that I have the utmost respect for seem to agree that the degree of hardness has an impact on the overall health and wellbeing of many fish species. There are hard water fish whose renal system are adapted to high concentration of...

Like Matt, I use sponges and floss. Works great and very economical.

Just got back from Manhattan. I took my wife to a Broadway musical, Hell’s Kitchen, for her 70th birthday. She loved the show. I generally dislike musicals and this was no exception. What we won’t do for love. But it is always fun hanging out in Manhattan.

Congratulations 🎉🎈🎊

Thanks. Great to know. I have a pest snail issue in my 20 gallon long.

Will assassin snails pray on neocaridina?

Do assassin snails really get rid of pest snails? If so, any down side to using them?

I thought he mentioned a trip to Italy.

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-survey-snapshot-scientific-thought-animal.html

Love those crazy psychedelic colors. I’m tripping man!

My tank raised cockatoo lineage has lived in moderate hard water for many generations.

The Mollys are definitely eating my new a. cacatuoides fry. And the Mollys were fed generously yesterday. I no longer see any fry So I moved the Molly pair into my 60 gallon African tank. I’m not comfortable with the move because I wanted that tank to house only fish from west Africa and the...

Feeding Frenzy.

Everybody says buy a RO unit to get rid of my well water nitrate problem and water hardness. However I need 25 gallons of water a week for water exchanges. The only place I can put a R/O unit is in the basement. How do I lug 25 gallons of water up a flight of stairs.

Heart attack breakfast 😄Yum!