I'm a Granny!!

SarahBravo

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

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

This is Daddy.....
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Some of their fishy friends....

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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 :rolleyes:

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

Sarah
 
Incredible pics! Your babies are SOOOOOOOO cute! :wub:

Their father is :drool: !

Great job and congrats! :cool:
 
congrats! :thumbs:

the pics are amazing :hyper:

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

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