As Alto said, I think it's the soft water that really helps.
I may or may not have just bought a very nice second hand larger tank for my birthday
Who needs the gym when you're doing rainwater waterchanges on a big tank on the second floor? Another benefit of the hobby I suppose... 😱Gotcha! I wish I had enough rainwater. I change out nearly 200L of water every week so not practical for me lol.
Happy Birthday too! I'm also a February baby
You can occasionally pick up Dicrossus filamentosus, they come in as by-catch with Cardinal Tetra etc. If you ask around shops locally they may be willing to retain any that come in that way for you.
Really difficult to photograph, the blue Apistogramma males are the same. This <"the best I've got">, but I'm not a photographer and it doesn't really do him justice.
Ooh that's interesting, when the tank is set up I'll start to ask around then. Do they come to shops in bags with the tetras?Hi all,
You can occasionally pick up Dicrossus filamentosus, they come in as by-catch with Cardinal Tetra etc. If you ask around shops locally they may be willing to retain any that come in that way for you.
Dicrossus maculatus would be more problematic, I got mine from "Rare Aquatics", who have since shut. A friend picked them up for me (from Crewe), and I collected them subsequently from him in Bristol. They were great for 18 months (I got them as juveniles), but eventually bloated.
A fairly general observation with Dicrossus spp. is that they need very careful feeding as adults.
Really difficult to photograph, the blue Apistogramma males are the same. This <"the best I've got">, but I'm not a photographer and it doesn't really do him justice.
cheers Darrel
Yes, they come in with wild collected fish, you also occasionally get Apistogramma iniridae and Poecilocharax weitzmani as well. Problem is that you usually only get one at a time.
More difficult I think, they need really soft water. I kept them a long time ago and I never got them to spawn.
It was the winter where it all went wrong, I fed them more Black and Grindal worms.
Cardinals, dicrossus a. Irniridae and those fabulous Poecilocharax weitzmani repair make a great tank too! Never heard of that kind of tetra, v pretty.
Our <"rainwater is never very soft">, so I don't keep any real "blackwater fish" now. It is OK for maintenance, but not for them to spawn successfully.
Certainly helps, Oak leaves should lower pH.
Yes, they don't really behave like a Tetra. I've only seen singletons (and all male), but if I was somewhere where there were a few more I'd be very tempted, despite what I just said about blackwater fish.
These are great, I’ve got a group at the moment. More like a dwarf cichlid than a tetra. The males when they display are something else! I’d highly recommend them.
Another great quote from this topic
Cross breeding parent fish to their fry (carefully written) and sibling fish to each other has been a long practise in the fish world to develop certain characteristics such as colour or elongated fins just look at how many strains of guppy exist
I suspect it has also been used on other domesticated animals such as dogs and cats to give us all the breeds that are available but I don’t have any first hand experience of it but I’m sure there will be more knowledgable members on here to lend an expert opinion
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Managed to take some terrible pictures, the showy males were being quite shy but managed to coax them out briefly with tetra prima. To be fair this is normally the case as they defend little territories in the plants whilst the females roam the whole aquarium.
Wonderful, looks like your coral pencils (?) are trying to steal the show! They go very well together, I love the weird little faces of the tetras.
Thank you! I will have some ready soon but sadly I'm not going to be able to ship them, I've never done it before and I don't feel confident that I could do it safely.
