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Hi Chris, Not the best chances for the fry. And if there are still 20 - 30 left, it seems that the other fishes or the tank enviroment did their job because there is normally a lot of more fry from one pair of rams. No joke, the biggest ammount of fry from one pair i've ever seen was more then...

Hi Gremily, If you want to breed the cacatuoides, that isn't the best idea. I've learned on the hard way, that shrimps are very effective egg-thieves. No problem with annual Killi-fishes, because the hull of their eggs is to hard to be harmed by shrimps but very reduced ammounts of Apistogramma...

Hi, yes, that should be ok, BUT: They made their territories! So if you just want to add one more A. cacatuoides, it seems to be a very good idea to take the first two out of the tank for some days before you add a new one. Additional, you can rearrange some of the "furniture" (Sorry, a big lack...

No, put this in the aquaristic myths and legends drawer please! In Germany this is a common announcment from the employees at the LFS (money, money, money ;) ). Yesterday, i've heard a conversation between a LFS-employee and a customer (victim fits better). And the customer bought some Panaque...

Hi, small tetras like Nannostomus sp., Axelrodia riesei, Axelrodia stigmatias, Carnegiella sp., Gasteropelecus sp., Hyphessobrycon elachys, Hyph. amandae, Copella arnoldi, or Otocinclus sp., Macrotocinclus flexilis, Endlers, Epiplatys annulatus, Corydoras pygmaeus, C. habrosus, C. hastatus and...

Hi, no, this should fit the requirements for the cacatuoides. Try the other tipps, be patient. If nothing works i try other things. My A. eremnopyge started to spawn successful after i raise the temperature to 28° Celsius for two weeks. After this initial "firing", they've spawned regulary also...

Hi, my Apistogramma (all kept species) show this behaviour from time to time. Especially after feeding live-food like cyclops or other very small living food. I never had to apply some medics, in all cases this behaviour stopps after some days. In my humble opinion, the fish show this, whenever...

Hi, that sounds nice. But not within the next eight months, because we move to a small town near Lüneburg and before we do that, we have to renovate, or better reconstruct our home, inside a over 300 years old farmhouse, owned by my parents. A lot of work and money to spend. :huh: Kind regards Marc

Hi, two or three times ok, but five times seems to be a little bit to often. If this egg-eating doesn't stop, the most common cause is that something is wrong in the tank. There are a lot of possibilities like to much pressure from other fishes (wrong dither fishes or the male), eggs are not...

Hi, that depends to the Apistogramma species you want to keep. We keep and breed different species in different water conditions. Water in the tanks varies from ph 4.5 to 6.5, DH around 3° and no KH, temperature from 18° C (sometimes for the paraguayin trifasctiata) to 28° with A. diplotaenia or...

Again, thanks to you all for your kind welcome. :) It is really interesting to read, how many people from all over the world know, or even better lived in Northern Germany. @merry78, Ohhh, Schleswig-Holstein - Thats where i born and lived more than twenty years. One of the nicest corners of...

Thanks for your welcome. :) Bad Ems is located not far from Koblenz, at the shores of the river "Lahn". Very beautiful, roundabout 500km away from my home-"town" (just 67 residents). ;) Kind regards Marc

Hello Everybody, just stumbled into this forum some hours ago. And it looks really interesting! :) What to tell about me? I'am a family man, married for the second time, five kids from nearly five to seventeen years, working as a instructional designer at a huge german company in Bremen...