Apistogramma eunotus

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MadBob

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5 days ago I decided that my 125 had enough fish in it, and I wouldn't be setting up another tank for a while, so I turned my quarantine 29 into a tank I planned to grow out mosses in with a couple of apistogramma just for fun.

I went to my LFS to pick up some moss to start growing but they had none in stock, they did have a freshly imported group of wild A. eunotus, so I picked up a pair just to keep the tank from cycling again.

Naturally because I wasn't really ready for them to start breeding the pair waited about 8 minutes to spawn. So now I've got 20 or so wigglers and their mother is doing a phenomenal job keeping vigil over them... I've never been attacked by an Apisto before, it was really very cute.

In true apisto fashion dad was being shy when I brought the camera out, but here's the young mother with her brood, they are directly below their mothers face in the picture.

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is this the breeding tank?if its the same tank you've been keeping thema then you should probably change the setup.apistos love leaf litter than plants under which they hide themselves and is what they do in wild.so you can use oak leaves,beech leaves or catappa leaves as leaf litter.congrats on your successful spawnings.hope you'll update with pics of fries.
 
I was honestly hoping they wouldn't get this busy until I planted the tank, I was surprised myself by how little they actually seem to care about the presence of plants or leaflitter. So long as they've got a number of good retreats they can take cover in they seem to be perfectly content.

The lava rock rubble in there will be overgrown with mosses and anubias before too terribly long, and there is a clay pot and a pile of driftwood for them to hide in. They've got plenty of spots to take cover if they want to.. hence why I don't have pictures of the father yet.

I will say though, I'm not a big fan of using leaf litter in my tanks, I find that they always break down, rot, and foul the water much faster than I'm willing to clean up the mess and replace them, especially so in relatively acidic water. Live greenery always seems to do better for me.

Hopefully I'll update with pics of the fry in the marketplace here, I suspect these two are going to keep doing this.
 
Fry have been free swimming for a few days, there are a lot more of them then I initially thought, looks like 100+ little 1/8" little dudes, they're taking bbs and ground up bloodworms without issue... anybody want some F1 A. eunotus?
 
I'm running the tank at 6.5, which is a little on the alkaline side for the genus, but my tap water is 7.3 so I'm not trying to play too any games with the ph so water changes are less stressful for me and the fish.
 
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the fry have grown a bit, quadrupled in size since I last updated, eating frozen rotifers like champs, they're almost big enough to start taking BBS
 
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