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Yes it is a bit too small volume &floor size wise for them so I had to add a lot of sight breaks to allow the female to hide, I do plan to upsize the tank but I need to rearrangement my place to fit in a bigger tank. I heard that it only takes apisto another 2-3 weeks to spawn again and I knew I...

It’s a 35wide x25deep x25high (cm) tank and this is the tank they(hongsloi) bred, but I actually pulled the eggs so eggs were hatched in a hatching box (25x15x10cm).

I am new to breeding apisto but this is so bizarre to me! It’s an aged 20L small tank (previously for raising gourami fries), and I’ve been using RO water (ph is 6.8 & TDS<100 out of tap) and I am doing weekly 25% W/C so the nitrate shouldn’t be <15ppm. It’s a 20L tank with a fully cycled...

Hey guys, I just had my first apisto eggs hatched - got around 50 eggs and 90% had turned into wrigglers. I’ve used a few drops of methylene blue to fight fungus because both of first 2 batches that I left to the female apisto to take care of had some fungus problems and eventually got eaten up...

Thanks for replying! I got my test kit last week and did a few water tests: Nitrate level : CT (40ppm), Breeding tank (15ppm), Backup tank where my EBR lives at the moment (<5ppm) Ph: all around 7.6 after a couple of water changes (my tap water is around 7.6 so I guess that’s why) I’ve done...

Thanks for replying, I did some research about how to keep these guys before I bought them so I was aware of the preferable temperature for ram and both tanks were set to 86F before they were introduced. I got a canister filter with filtering capability exceeding the volume of CT and it’s been...

Hey guys, is it true that we cannot keep GBR in water with higher nitrate ? First of all start with my tank setup: Main community tank - 310L planted tank with 20-30 other small fish like dwarf gourami honey gourami, tetra kuhli loach, apistos etc, all timid fish so shouldn’t be any stress due...

Hey guys, I recently noticed that one of my 4 coral blue dwarf gourami had a red bump inside her mouth - I thought that was fish food pellet stuck at first so I tried to pry it out lightly with a toothpick and I found that it is not fish food. So I move her into my QT and in the following 2 days...

Nah your answer and link are very helpful, after days it seems they’ve settled down and I can tell its side strip is pretty much touching its eye and reaching its tail, so I may try to build up a breeding tank too see if they could mate. Thanks

I found that building an environment to simulate their native habitat for them to breed is quite interesting so breeding fish was actually part of my plan ( and that’s why I asked for a male and female when I bought them from the LFS). Anyway, I am upgrading my tank soon so if it turns out to be...

Hi Josh, thanks for replying. Here’s another photo of the No.1 mainly trying to capture the side body strip, does it look like female to you? By the way, as you may see, the water is tinted a bit by my homemade driftwood... So I guess the actual body colour of my fish is a bit brighter than...

Hey everyone, I recently bought this pair of HG and I am a bit confused of their gender as I am getting totally different info from internet. I am more inclined to think fish 1 is a female and fish 2 is a male? Both of their dorsal fins looks quite pointy but fish 1’s looks sort of rounded at...