Re: tank with apistos cacatuoides

["David Soares" <apistodave@bendcable.com>]

Hey Mike lay off the brother!
Soft Water Dwarf Cichlids
David Soares & Uwe Romer
14697 S Bluegrass LN
Sisters Or    97759
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Diane Wise" <apistowise@fgn.net>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: tank with apistos cacatuoides


>
>
> Alfredo Figueiredo wrote:
>
> > I'm from Portugal (and..by the way, don't expect to defeat us in the
World Cup
> > :).
>
> Alfredo,
>
> I believe you - but is that not the same thing many in France said about
> Senegal? ;-)
>
> > The temperature is 26ºC all the time, I feed them frozen adult artemia
> > salina (shrimps).
>
> Personally, I prefer a more varied diet. A. cacatuoides is not a choosy
fish
> when it comes to food.
>
> > The nitrates are very very low, almost undetectable (I'm not sure
excatly).
> > The hardness is about 5ºdH
>
> Those values seem acceptable.
>
> > I'm going to take some pictures now of the fishes, I would like to hear
from
> > you to decide what to do...add male? add a. agassizi (which is a species
I
> > love)?
>
> I always worry about inbred fish. Could the more intense colors found in
females
> be testosterone related? I'm do not mean artificially induced, but
genetically
> bred into the strain. All females produce testosterone. It is just lower
than
> the amount of estrogen. In these domestic strains, if testosterone is
related to
> the color of the female then perhaps it also affects their fertility. I
don't
> know if this is true, but it is something to think about.
>
> Mike Wise
>
>
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