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From my experience, the fish that are the biggest pain & the ones who bug others live the longest...

I have a deformed female ram that i was sure wouldn't survive.. she's been going strong!!!! and...

well I'm glad to see like me, others do feed Blood worms to their Apisto's with no problems.. I have however cut right back to only feeding them on "special occasions", because they do love it...
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I'm reffering to a post on another forum & I would like to know others opinions.

Apparently his young apisto died for an unknown reason, he took it to his vet for an autopsy, the fish showed...

I think they are worth the trouble.. they have so much character & every day they are still alive & kicking It feels good because you haven't screwed-up yet :P

yeah i bought some Apisto's from Mike, saw his set-ups (when it was first put together) but never mentioned he is a vet!!! very very cool.

The brown water is fine but it's very noticable & makes...

Mike as in; Noddy65 Mike? He's a vet??? he never mentioned this to me!

wow, thats handy :P

I heard that about the tanins in the wood & that it's good for some fish, didn't know Apisto's benefit...

Andrew, then I appologise, to be honest I read the thread as you calling me an idiot :(

I haven't treated any of the fish as yet, i am thinking of investing in some good meds & hopefully find a...

If Andrew is fishgeek,
Then i have already thanked him (see original response)

although i'm not quite sure if his disclaimer was attentioned to me.

I have checked the parameters, no ammonia as...

the last time I treated with melachite green, the fish died from the treatment... perhaps it might be because she was a wild imported ram & more sensitive than a tank bred though...

my tank is 80L...

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thanks for your help,
the tank actually dropped from 30*c to 10*c, I live in the Blue mountains (hence why so cold) so it was pretty severe in my eyes.

my fish actually died last night, the eye...

anyone???

Due to a freak accident with my heater & sudden severe temp drop

one of my Male blue rams has developed "pop eye"

I have been reccomended to use Metro as a friend of mine cured their discus...

they ate last night & are swimming around like nothing scares them! then i turned the lights on & they hid like little girls :P

I swapped my lighting for a lower level of light (fluro's as...

well they are in my small tank which is a 80L tank, they have a house mate (an albino ghostknife) but I was really careful to keep them seperate & theres thousands of little holes & crevices too...

mine won't eat :(

I think yours look slightly larger than mine though.. and I feed my fish mal's freeze dried blackworms or frozen bloodworms or spirulina flakes... I ran out of pellets :(

I...

wow.. mine have hidden & won't come out for anything!

They are cute aren't they?

me three :)

please!

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aaww so cute! your female is beautiful!!!

I must say, I'm pretty dissapointed with the place of purchase, I expected them to have higher quality for their reputation.. but like you have said previously, theres not many quality Apisto...

Thomas, they look stunning.. as always :)

I knew he was from singapore (but thats half the reason why i bought him.. didn't want to kill a $250.00 fish I'd rather kill a $6.00 fish...

Illusn, I got this round the corner from your place,...

oww.. now I need to think of a new name...

is it an Apisto though???

I don't really understand, in what context does Hybrid mean?

is it a test species?
I just want to know If me being all...

I have had this guy for around 3 months now, bought him as a baby & now he's starting to colour-up quite nicely.. he's no where near the quality of some of yours but I love him.. I have named him...