Love these fish! We got our Purple Smilers we bought at PVAS auction to breed a handful of times. Rainwater at water change seemed to trigger them. We pulled fry and were on our way to BAP, but had the batch of them crash. They really do mature into lovely fish. Wish we had room now for them.
Coral Red Pencil fish did not love our water. Wish we'd been able to keeps ours alive instead of the neons we put in when our F0 Apistogramma Bitaeniata spawned. The tetras sacked the apisto fry. What water parameters are your Pencilfish kept in? Do you breed and raise them in your water?
Sorry you didn't have good luck with the coral reds. Mine are in rain water and they do great, but you have to do lots of water changes to keep the pH from dropping off the scale. Thanks!
Love these fish! We got our Purple Smilers we bought at PVAS auction to breed a handful of times. Rainwater at water change seemed to trigger them. We pulled fry and were on our way to BAP, but had the batch of them crash. They really do mature into lovely fish. Wish we had room now for them.
Coral Red Pencil fish did not love our water. Wish we'd been able to keeps ours alive instead of the neons we put in when our F0 Apistogramma Bitaeniata spawned. The tetras sacked the apisto fry. What water parameters are your Pencilfish kept in? Do you breed and raise them in your water?