From: "Anthony Baker" <anthony_w_baker@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: apisto@listbox.com
To: apisto@listbox.com
Subject: Re: Tank mate / Artificial hatching questions...
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 14:18:06 -0500
Mike W.-
Ahhh, I got you confused with Mike Jacobs, sorry! -- His page with the
red-gold aggie is http://www.geocities.com/mikefjacobs/apistopage1.html
Thanks for the advice -- I guess I can add some DI water to get the pH down
to the 6.0 range. I've bred cockatoos in tens, but not aggies so I wasn't
sure if they were pickier. I'll load the tank up with pots and excess
plant
cuttings to give them plenty of hiding spots. The hard part I fear is
going
to be netting them out of the planted 60!
-Tony
From: Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@fgn.net>
Reply-To: apisto@listbox.com
To: apisto@listbox.com
Subject: Re: Tank mate / Artificial hatching questions...
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:58:57 -0700
Tony,
A 10 gallon tank should be fine for your aggies. They would be better off
with a pH
around 6.0 - 6.5, but should produce a few fry at around neutral. My only
suggestions
would be to have at least 2 hiding places for each fish (reduces the
chance
of damage
to one fish by the other) & move the male back to your 60 after the female
has eggs.
Sometimes females get real nasty & a 10 isn't very large.
BTW which web site has the red-gold aggie? I don't have a personal web
site.
Mike Wise
Anthony Baker wrote:
> Thanks Mike. I actually looked at the wonderful pics
> on your site, and my male is nearly identical to the
> A. agassizii 'red-gold' you have pictured on Page 1.
>
> Another simple newbie-type question -- The only free
> tank that I could house this pair in is a standard
> 10G with a well cycled sponge filter, a few plant
> cuttings and a thin layer of flourite (I have been
> planing to rear fry in this tank, but the eggs never
> make it!). I could add some flower pots and PVC to
> increase the hiding spots. Would this be of
> sufficent size for this pair?
>
> Also, the water in the 60G tank and the 10G is tap
> water with a KH of 3-4 and GH of 5-6. Compressed CO2
> in the 60G brings down the pH to ~6.8. The pH in the
> 10G is probably 7.1 or so, but haven't checked
> lately. Should I add some acid buffer or DIY CO2 to
> lower the pH, or will the pair be able to breed under
> the existing conditions in the 10G? And, if they do
> breed, should I pull the male out after the eggs are
> laid?
>
> TIA
> -Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@fgn.net>
> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:26:49 -0700
> To: apisto@listbox.com
> Subject: Re: Tank mate / Artificial hatching questions...
>
> > Tony,
> >
> > Any of these fish, including the parents, are likely candidates for
egg eating.
> > Apparently there aren't any acceptable caves for spawning or the
aggies wouldn't
> > be spawning on an open leaf. In such a busy tank the female may feel
it better
> > to eat the eggs and 'recycle' the nutrients for future breeding than
to keep up
> > the effort to protect them from so many fish. You could cut the leaf
and
> > artificially raise the fry like angelfish, but most hobbyists who
have
done this
> > have found that they get fewer, and slower growing, fry than when
kept
with
> > their mother. My suggestion is putting the parents in their own tank
for
> > breeding purposes. Otherwise just accept that any fry coming from
this
tank will
> > be a lucky bonus.
> >
> > Mike Wise
>
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