Re: apistos for the beginner

["Adam G" <apisto99@hotmail.com>]

Jerry and Colin, thanks for your input.  I think I'd go with cacatuoides.  
I've always been fond of them, and I often see more than one color variety 
in my LFS.

Jerry, you mentioned trying to work out what might be going wrong with my 
mamore spawns.  Here's a little more info:

Of the three times that I've thought they've spawned, I can only attest to 
seeing eggs on one of the occasions.  The female layed a clutch of eggs on 
the underside of a rock.  At the time I had a pair of clown loaches in the 
tank as a way to clear an exploding snail problem.  Clearly, clown loaches 
and their voracious appetites don't mesh well with trying to breed apistos.  
Once the snail onslaught subsided the loaches were returned to my LFS.  
Anyhow, the female continued to try and try to bully the loaches away (even 
though they showed little interest in her eggs).  When she failed to move 
them, she started to eat the eggs herself (perhaps giving herself all the 
good nutrients she'd need for the next go at egg laying?).  So in that case, 
I feel there's an explanation for the lack of free swimming fry.  On the 
other two occasions, I never saw the eggs.  Both times, the female turned 
yellow, her lateral line disappeared, and a fleck of black pigmentation 
appeared just under her eyes.  Perhaps teh eggs weren't fertilized?  I'm 
constantly working slowly at building up the tank, and I feel that things 
might bode better once there is a little more plant cover.  It's been 
obvious that each time I add more plants that all three mamore become more 
active and display more breeding behaviors.

Any thoughts?
-Adam

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