Appistogramma Cacatuides

[Joeyg2100]

I am getting a pair of these fish later the week, and I am plaining on breeding these fish as the area I am in doesn't offer them at the LFS.
Question is do I need to remove the male when the fry hatch? I have heard people have removed them and some leave him in the tank.

Here is my setup for the fish:
35 gallon hex tank
heavly planted
drift wood
3 caves
Water conditions:
hardness 80
ph 7.8


I have never had these fish, and I think that they are a cool fish. Is there any info I should know about them. Thanks

 

[kribensis12]

Give them another cave. The male will be fine with the fry. Take your ph down to 7.0 and what are your nitrate and nitrite.

 

[Joeyg2100]

I am not going to add a ph buffer to my water, it messed with the water cemistry to much. I will probably just add some RO water. The nitrite is 0 and nitrate is 5

 

[Tolak]

I picked up a pair a few months back, & put them in a 20 high in a quiet corner of my fishroom. A clay pot & some pvc pipe were added, along with a couple of golfball size rocks, a silk plant, & a piece of driftwood in a bare bottom tank. I put some peat moss in a box filter, and let them be. The tank was lit by room light, I use diffuser panels for tank tops, so it lets in plenty of light.

After a month I had fry, I just left the parents in with them. They are on their second spawn, I pulled the larger fry to leave some room & put them in another 20.

I conditioned them on frozen bloodworms & brine shrimp, doing 50% weekly water changes with water around 2F cooler. I recently added some small corys to keep the bottom a little cleaner, and feed the fry fresh bbs 3x daily.

My water is hard with a pH of 7.8 out of the tap. This is how I usually deal with cichlids I'm looking to breed, let them get acclimated to my water for a week, add a little peat to the filter, Feed them good & do cooler water changes. I try to house them in a tank that is a little removed from the fishroom commotion.