Apistogramma Trifasciata breeding

[Jorge O'Reilly]

I would have thought that is a pretty good survival ratio, especially as the fish are doing the hard work for you?

Dunno. I had 25+ live free swimmers... You're probably right though.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

I had 25+ live free swimmers...

You may have housing difficulties if you raise too many juveniles. The males <"really don't like one another from an early age">, which makes sexing into pairs easy (even before there are obvious gender differences), but means that you need a lot of real estate to house the males in.

cheers Darrel

 

[Jorge O'Reilly]

I've already checked with an aquarium, they'll take them. Until then, I'll monitor but everything seems ok. There's 12-15 in a 90l heavily planted tank, so we should be fine... I hope.

 

[Jorge O'Reilly]

Thanks Darrel. By Monday I'm pretty sure I'll be having a second spawn.

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Roundness is gone...

Terrible grouping, though. I hope enough of them got fertilized.

 

[Jorge O'Reilly]

Some details. Hopefully, it might even slowly carpet. I have no idea what plant this is.

 

[Jorge O'Reilly]

Apparently, it's Monte Carlo, and it was originally collected here in Argentina, it seems to be native. Native as in most riversides are carpeted by it lol...

 

[Jorge O'Reilly]

Looks like the new batch is 40+ free swimmers... I have a housing crisis.

 

[Jorge O'Reilly]

Edito: counted up to 50 and lost the count. Probably upper sixties, possibly seventies. Help.