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Angelfish eat duckweed like skittles iME, nothing odd there. Juvenile angelfish are eating machines when they are happy, I've got growout tanks that will eat 10x a day, and still beg like they're starving 10 minutes later. If it'll eat, feed it

Food is good. Food that moves is better. Clean water is good, Especially in a small container. Lots of partial water changes are your friend.

Welcome! Totally get that, Apistogramma were my drug of choice for quite a few years.

Yes. 100% a factor. beneficial bacteria eat fish waste (ammonia), and also eat carbonate hardness (KH)

That's been my experience. I try really hard to grow fry "optimally" (large tanks, lots of food, lots of clean water), and there are points where a (small) percentage of fry simply stop progressing

Beat me to it. My money is on this ^^^

I'm gonna go out on a limb here.... I'd wager it has more to do with the feeding/care/husbandry of the first 12-16 weeks of life than anything else. Judging from the numbers of of large eyed/small bodied fish I see for sale all the time, I'd double down on the "stunted before it ever got to you"...

It’s easy. Give the USFWS $100 for your import/export permit, and you’re legal. keep the total cost of fish under $2500 and you can clear them with customs without the use of a broker. Ill add, if you import 8 or fewer fish, no USFWS permit is required. You would still be on the hook for a...

Interesting.... The "loner" and the "group" are the same species of rummy nose?

Unless you luck out and find someone that really wants albino oscars of that size…..round here XL oscars generally change hands at the price of “free to a good home”

Yep. Really stinks to lose fish to essentially bad luck. I’ve lost a few Pterophyllum the same way. I did however have one make a full recovery after a few weeks though. If he’s not done in a day or two, you’ve probably got a reasonable chance of recovery

I’d be more inclined to a blend of RO and tap water. Unless there’s something horrible in your tap water, there’s really no reason to go full RO + re-mineralization. 1/3 tap, 2/3 RO (or something along those lines) should be pretty nice

Excellent! Fins and bars are coming right along.

Yeah... In my experience, there are very few "blackwater" species who's eggs will hatch at a pH higher than 6

Great fish! The almost Apistogramma species are really fun, and not nearly popular enough. I had a pair of these years ago that came as contaminant fish. Like many Rio Negro fish, they were totally content breeding in my faux blackwater (low pH, high GH). Never got fry at the higher pH with...

Sure looks like a gonopodium to me. Late blooming male I'd say

3.5 gallons is pretty small. A low maintenance/near self sustaining ecosystem type setup, is probably limited to plants, a snail, and maybe something like a few daphnia/scuds/shrimp. I don't think a 3.5 is large enough for any fish.

At day 5, the odds says you probably haven't really started yet

The “shimmering copper” that has just appeared should be cause for concern (velvet). Treatment should be a huge concern because copper (and pH) can do some nasty things. Pop the coral back in. Turn the lights out and spot the fish with a flashlight. Shimmery copper/gold “dust” on the fish will...

#1 Pterophyllum altum “Rio Ventuari”. Tall order given the state of Venezuela. #2 Pterophyllum scalare “Rio Puxirituba other”. Super cool altum like scalare that I’ve never seen collected in numbers that would need two hands to count.