Amatitlania siquia

[Jexnell]

In this thread I will be posting updates on my Amatitlania siquia

Housing 40B
Filtration 2X AC50's, Ehiem 200 airpump, Ehiem 100w heater

Stocking
1X Amatitlania Siquia
4X Poecilia Sphenops (red lyretail Molly)

 

[Jexnell]

The Molly's

Three are Reds one is Red and Black variegated. The male is a solid bright red. It appears the two red females are already pregnant. The variegated female appears to not be pregnant.

The Siquia

He was the smallest of the ones that you could tell was a male at about 1.5in. No bloch in the dorsal and nice orange coloring in the unpaired fins.

Sadly doing a fish in cycling. But I am home all day everyday so will be doing 50% water changes daily.
Substrate is Caribsea planted plus.
Tank will get indirect sunlight most of the day. The window it's sitting in faces NW so from about 5:30 to sunset gets direct light. The light is a Finnex 24/7 Planted Plus
Plants
5x Vallisneria gigantae (giant val)
1x Echinodorus sp. (Red flame)
2x Echinodorus cordifolius
2x Hygrophila angustifolia

All Plants fish from The Wet Spot as it's now just a quick 10 min drive away.

 

[DMD123]

Looking good! Nice little set up you have going.

 

[Jexnell]

Caught all of them in one pic this morning.

 

[Jexnell]

Some Manzanita branches are still on the way, will be added when they arrive. May get more plants after that when I can see what type of room I have left. Probably a medium sized rock or two for a cichlid hideaways.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Cheers on getting back into tanks with a fish you're enjoying! ?

 

[Manu8__too]

Looking forward to his progression thread.

 

[Hybridfish7]

Locale?

 

[Jexnell]

On the receipt it says

Amatitlania siquia "purple convict" "Bagaces" TR Unsexed

So I am assuming that Bagaces is the location.

I looked it up on Google maps and it's a town in Costa Rica. Northwest area Pacific side of the country.

 

[Hybridfish7]

Ah yes, I have those as well. Standard nicoya peninsula convict, males get big and yellow, females get a slate grey with blue and yellow fins/yellow dotted blotches as opposed to orange blotches like normal convicts.
The "purple convict" probably comes from the fact that the dominant color on males seems to be firing up to a dull purple. Idly they're a gold with orange fins.
My male fired up and down, + a female.






Assuming they're from wetspot, I know the guy who bred them.