silver-foxx

I was considering swapping over the females to see if that worked :oops:

OK I have been told and read these little beauties are hard to breed.. I have 2 tanks 40lt set up with a pair in each..temp 26 deg..sand bottom..2 clay pots and some java moss. 1 pair have laid eggs 4 times ..always in hollows in sand never on rock or pots. after they have laid I make sure there tank has live food at all times, ie daphnia & mozzie lava but every time one of them eats the eggs the next day. any constructive advise would be appriciated please. Darrell

that is why i DONT eat battery hen eggs. BACK TO THE SUBJECT:- I might give this a try http://bettysplendens.com/articles/page ... icleid=809 leave the father with the fry ??

who want to be kept in a 100mm square jar all there life ? I am going to make some ss mesh cubes for the males and hang these so the top is above water in a purpose made tank that will allow all the water to flow through them. & wast to fall through..

:lol: interesting to read about these fish, I have breed various fish in my life but never had a Siamese fighter, looking forward to the trip. will try & breed ....then wonder what the hell am i going to do with them all...oh well always the online place we only talk about when the lights are off. 8) great site; http://bettysplendens.com/articles/home.imp

and yes they used to croak a lot, sort of a grating sound when they lock & rub there dorsal fins together.. umm must get somemore

I have a tank set up with 1 male & 2 female steel blues and both female's have free swimming fry as from yesterday. Each has taken up a back corner with there fry. At first I though one was dashing over to the other & eating one of her offspring, then dashing back to her corner...but having left them to it all day I can now see what she has been up to by the size of her 'brood' compared to the others. She has been stealing the others fry & including them with her's...now has a swarm of fry at least twice the size of her 'friend' I wonder if by tomorrow the poor female will be 'fry less ' Lots of fun. :lol:

http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery.php?genus=Apistogramma

http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery.php?genus=Apistogramma

http://www.dwarfcichlid.com/index.php

All 4 of my females are looking after eggs or fry :bounce: pity I might be using them as feeder fish at this rate

what I ment was I was looking to find an importer who will bring some in for a small group...

see http://www.dwarfcichlid.com/index.php this site has a good explination as to what is what. steel blue are a morph. I have 2 x breeding trio that have bred I am looking at importing true Apistogramma borellii The importers have plenty of 'steel blues' at the moment. good luck they are still a beautifulm fish female turns yellow when spawning temp selection yeilds: 26 deg, all female 27 deg, mixed sexes 28 deg, all males

sometimes my finger is quicker than my eye try.http://www.dwarfcichlid.com/Apistogramm ... l_blue.php :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: still a beautiful fish

yes they are steel blue and happy with them, have now got 2x breeding trio. :bounce: http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgur ... 8%26um%3D1 is a good site on the subject. looking to import some breeding Apistogramma borellii (A102/103/104) interested in obtaining all Apistogramma...if u have any

My ' blue steel ' (apistogramma sp ) have free swimming fry, not bad considering I only bought them on 20th March. :bounce: still looking for apistogramma borelli mind.

thanks for reply my water is Aok the fish suddenly become swollen, listless then within 24hours bloat up with scales all sticking out then croak. I have a short fuse with sick fish so send them off to the big fish pond in the sky without hesitation despite what they cost.

I have had 5 adult beeding males & 1 breeing female sudenly develop drosy & go off to fish heaven. :-? I feed various dry food, frozen bloodworm & some mozie lava. do regular H2O changes. kiss them good night but still they ' croak ' HELP

bonus is my fish dont have fleas :evil:

see link; http://www.basilaqua.com.tw/ wonderful stuff

anyone else tried this ? I was eating my lunch ( peppered steak pie ) in the fish room yesterday and my red jewel cichlid fry 3 mo were at the glass saying ' can we have some ' so I threw in a peice of the crust and watched them devour it..this gave me an idea so I got some of my cats dry food and gave them some which they put away at short notice. now this begs the question should I keep paying for over priced pellets from LFS ?? comments please.

http://www.aquariumlife.net/diy.asp :bounce:

as requested here is short intro to silver-foxx, 35 odd years ago I had the largest private tropical fish breeding setup in NZ now have 20 tanks for last year trying to find something to keep me busy in my retirement and as my wife died in her sleep not long ago I need something to keep me going. have bred this time around, angels..danios..koi swordtails..red jewel..kribs normal & golden..plecos..( short term memory loss..can't recall the rest ) now changing fish room to breed dwarf cichlids.. I love trout fishing, ancient history, looking after my grandkids, Jim Beam, breeding tropical fish..oh and Jim Beam or did I say that before. thanks for taking time to read.