I'm a Granny!!

[SarahBravo]

There's at least 5 or 6 baby cockatoo apistos sneaking around....

but I don't know how to tell whether they're male or female at this stage.

This is Daddy.....

Some of their fishy friends....

And all the guppies are pregnant too.... that's a surprise. And the male guppies on their own in one tank have given up waiting for a girlie and have gone gay

Still, I guess that's what you get when you go away for a month and leave them with a babysitter!!

Sarah

 

[Dwarfs]

That's awesome At such a small size, they can't be sexed

 

[fufanu360]

very cool! that is one fat krib!

 

[Nix]

very cool, are all the cichlids in the same tank? or what?

 

[cometcattle]

Incredible pics! Your babies are SOOOOOOOO cute!

Their father is !

Great job and congrats!

 

[Ben]

congrats!

the pics are amazing

DD

 

[pnyklr3]

Once again, I'm jealous! My females are bad mommies ! AH well, such is life; they'll get the hang of it. And your male is GORGEOUS! I second the

 

[aberdeen aquarist]

congrats,
looking at the pics, i'd guess the first baby is male and the second female, going by the difference in the colour of their dorsal fin anyway. but just a guess i'm in no way an expert in the field!!!

 

[Phantom Thief]

Some very nice parents and some even better little ones!



P.T.

 

[Sasha]

Congratulations! The babies are so cute!

Great pics too! All of your fish are very colorful!

 

[SarahBravo]

Thanks for the compliments! It was a complete surprise to me about the baby apistos, so I can't take any credit at all. Daddy came from Wharf Aquatics near Nottingham, they are a GREAT shop if anyone is anywhere near them, def worth a visit!

The cockatoos and the rams are in the same tank, and the kribs are in another tank. I was hoping maybe little kribs would appear, but no luck so far although they are all flirting like crazy!

Glad you like the pics, thank you!

Sarah

 

[pnyklr3]

Color on the fins isn't a great way to tell gender. All three of my females have some sort of patterns on their fins, on is absolutely gorgeous! I have also heard of many apisot babies who appear to change sex (they matured at a different time than the rest). Apistos have two fins that look like feet on their bellies (sorry, I blanked on their name); the females have a black stripe on each one, and the males do not. I have not known this to be any different, but someone let me know if it isn't fool-proof. As for the fry, pH and water temp play a huge part on the sex ration. PH plays the biggest factor: lower pH=more males, lower pH=more females. Water temp kinda plays second fiddle to pH, but does factor in: higher temp=more males, lower temp=more females. My breeder was using local tap water (very high pH) and had high water temp. She ended up with 134 females and 1 male. These factors affect the apsito babies in the first 3 weeks of life (from eggs on).