Worried about my apisot

[nickmcmechan]

So, few weeks ago before I went on Vacation noticed that my external cannister stopped working...

Upon investigation I was really cheesed off to find that, whilst doing filter maintenance it had sucked up my female apisto.......it died

So, few weeks l8r bought another female (of note at the same time bought a young angel btw...this is to go in my bigger tank when cycled)

Yesterday and today I have been worried about my male apisto...clmped fins, hiding, staying at back of tank, not so agressive when feeding, hardly fed this morning at all, losing colour

Female has become extremely bright and vibrant defending her 'cave' vigorously...would swear there are eggs in there from behaviour point of view only

When I bought the female the lfs explained that at some stage they would become agressive and fight out dominance until one fo them looked like it was on its way out, it would suddenly recover and then they would pair off...he reminded me that they are (obviously) not currently a pair.

So is my male apisto behaviour down to lfs advie (is this correct?) or am I to soon lose him.

Other factors:

The new Angel was selected becuase he has slight red in his eye and I reckoned he might be Scalare, so might be an agression issue, I have noticed competition at feeding time.

Water parameters are Ammo - 0, Trite - 0, Trate - 5, pH 7.6, water changes every other day using seachem prime.

Varied diet fed - frozen bloodworms, algae wafers, nutrafin flake, tetraprima pellets for colour, not fed live for a couple of weeks

Aplogies for length of this post!

 

[wataugachicken]

all common angelfish are of the species Pterophyllum scalare. not all of them have red eyes - it is a bred-in trait that goes in and out of fashion. as for agression - if the angel was doing it, you'd see it happening everyday. the new female apisto is probably to blame.

 

[LaurelB]

Apisto behaviour

Hi - My apistos are different from other cichlids. Before mating, the male is the aggressor. After the eggs are laid, the female goes after him. She beats him into the corner and makes him stay there until she's 'OK' with the situation. They don't partner with the raising of the brood, like my other cichlids. Is it possible that your female has eggs, and is now terrorizing the male?

 

[Rbishop]

What size tank and what other fishie mates?

 

[nickmcmechan]

i lost the male.....he semed perfectly healthy but hid in a corner more and more and found him dead eventually

the female is kicking about and is hiding a lot

dont know if she had had eggs or not

other tank mates in this tank are tetras (lemon and neon), guppies, otos and pygmy cories....there was an angel in there but he has been moved to my SA tank...

tank is 100l for this one