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The firemouth and malawi would beat an apisto up if it wanted to once they outgrew the apisto. They are not aggressive unless breeding they will protect their eggs like most cichlids. They don't grow larger then 3 1/2 inches (males) females much smaller and less color. Great for community fish...

Does it have a gonopodium? if not I would suspect its a female. The dorsal fin of some strains can help indicate since the males have one that is larger.

Apisto cichlids are great centerpiece fish (dwarf cichlid). There are many attractive and peaceful options within this species. Here's an apistogramma cacatuoides triple red male I had years ago.

The only ways the water chemistry would change are if you left water sit in a tank overtime the O2 levels would lower along with chlorine evaporation and it would become harder since the water would evaporate leaving a higher concentration of minerals behind. Water running through a filter...

I have seen this type of behavior, this sounds like mating behavior, I personally would not be concerned. This is just speaking from my experience though. Think, in the wild would this happen? Yes, but..the fish being chased would have more space to escape. I've never encountered issues from...

You could run the old filter on the new tank along with new filter to help seed it with bacteria. Once it is seeded remove the older filter and put it on your old tank and then move the fry back to it. I can't recall the exact time needed to seed a new filter, though to be safe I would run...

So many variables are missing that a definitively true answer can not be provided. It could keep some fish alive sure, quality of life depends.

When it comes to combining any species of Cichlid, I will second and stress that the behavior of the individual fish is one of the most critical factors. Sometimes things work that normally do not because you have a less dominant fish then is normal for its species. Another is the footprint of...

This can happen I definitely recommend multiple females to males. The best thing to do is make sure there is alot of decor that breaks down the sight line from one fish to another so that the females can get away. The male was showing signs of interest in your case that is precisely what my male...

Firstly I will say your doing a great job being open to information :). A few tips I'd like to suggest is make sure you never fully clean out the entire tank, the reason being it can kill off your biological filtration which is microscopic bacteria that handles the toxic fish waste. This is...

i keep them together in a 20,itll work fine.

If you plan on breeding I think the corys will be an issue. I had to remove all bottom feeders to get mine to breed successfully. For some reason I couldn't get mine to breed either in lower ph that I had from co2 injection. I stopped co2 and had loads of algae but they breed. But give it a shot...

It could be internal parasites or possibly something else. Make a post in the sick fish forum and be sure to read the sticky on what to include when making a new thread.

Thanks for the quick response zagz, I was hoping someone with your kind of experience would give a response. In the past few days her poop has been a little white and stringy, but she also has not been eating almost anything, your diagnois does make sense however. I will try to treat for...

The Fish affected: Apistogramma cacatuoides, Female. She is looking very thin and during feeding she might eat 1-2 items of food but after that she just spits anything else back out. She has been like this for 3 weeks. The Tank parameters are ammonia 0, nitrites 0, nitrates are barely...

just for the record. putting driftwood through a dishwasher without detergent gets all the tanins out of driftwood. Takes 20 mins compared to hours of boiling and you don't even have to do a thing.

I don't know where you're getting that ph value from, but the most important thing is that the ph remains steady. The oscars would do fine at that level of ph if it remained stable, but that is a little higher then their natural ph. If the tapwater comes out at 7.0 and stays that way, there's...

:x I think you're right unfortunately. As you can tell one is smaller then the other. I too was skeptical at first on whether it was female, I had no idea they could be so colorful. Maybe he made a mistake sending 2 males?? It doesn't make much sense considering the males twice the size of...

They are doing great so far and seem interested in each other. Just wanted to thank whoever posted in my acclimation post, I owe their well being to your guys help.

I would agree with 7enigmas conclusion as to why the lfs uses that method. A store near me uses that method as well. Fish came yesterday :D, i used the drip method and it took about 1 1/2 hours. I used the prime to detoxify the shipping water after pouring some of it out to begin with. The...