Just love this content! Just recently became the happy owner of three different pairs of apistogrammas. The super red cacatuoides, the orange flash and red neck macmasteri. I’m so excited. Not looking at breeding my pairs but you never know what will happen.
Hey youre very educated on the topic ofc - but wanted to touch on the pH, if you were not aware you can use vinegar to bring the pH down, test by adding the vinegar in drop by drop in a “test tank” tub of water or something. Ive been using this method and it really does work and is much safer than using products such as “pH up/down”
Just a breeding pair when they have fry the pair will escort them around the tank without getting stressed. To pairs might fight and eat the fry, at £50 a pair it's worth it 🤑
Hi, I really liked the video and learned a lot! I really want to make a apistogramma my centerpiece fish. But what I still don't know is if he can co-exist with shrimp in the tank? I would appreciate the info on your experience with that! Thank you and again, nice video!
I just received my first trio of apistos and mine are doing the same thing. I don’t want to feed them frozen foods every day, so I’ll be trying some other things, like soaking the nano pellets in garlic. Maybe that will work.
So, this video is a tough sell for me because you've lumped all Apistos together... and thats just not how this works... Example: Apistograma trifasciata will not produce viable offspring in hard water. Apistograma cacatuoides will. Ya'll are welcome to try, but these fish have been in the hobby for 25+ years and it still hasn't happened. You can keep a tri in hard water and its not going to die, but if you came to this video for in depth breeding information, you have been set up for failure by having all of these different species lumped together. As far as how I keep mine I have 2 pairs of double reds, each pair has their own species only 10 gal rectangle and I see no stress behavior like you saw when his fish was in its 10 gal. That 10 gal cube with few caves definitely looked rough, buuuuuuut I know a shop owner who got offspring from double reds in what was basically a glorified dish that couldn't have been larger than 4 gallons, its worth mentioning the male was far far far from full grown. However, pt 2, one of the members of my fish club keeps 3 fully grown males in a 7 gallon fish bowl that he does water changes on regularly and the bowl is in a very sheltered spot with little foot traffic. I'd argue good hiding places for the fish and water quality is more important than volume, but I personally wouldn't go below a 10 gal. I'm just here to say what has been done and how the fish reacted.
Those are fair points. If we went in depth on each type it would’ve been far too long of a video. I would still argue not to chase hardness/ph levels regardless of the apisto. Consistent, quality parameters are more important and you’d be surprised how many South Americans will thrive/breed in those conditions are met. For full grown adults, I’d still recommend larger than a 10 gallon even if it’s a perfect scape. Once mine reached adult size, it needed a 20g at minimum in my opinion and that’s without tank mates
