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From: TyroneGenade	9/7/2022 11:17:58 AM
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Aphyosemion australe: breeding and tank requirements So, lets try have a discussion with those people who have joined. So this was one of my most productive A. australe setups: It was about 2L in volume and sat on the windowsill of my lab back in Cape Town. I barely ever got a water change. When it did, it got Cape Town tap water which is very soft. It had a piece of wood in the tank with java fern and anubias rooted on it. I could get more than 20 eggs per day from this pair. They were fed mostly baby brine shrimp (bbs) and grindals. I had two other tanks setup just like this and got much fewer eggs from each pair so it seems that spawning efficiency depends on the fish as much as the setup. You can get a bad pair that don't produce much at all. I have found this to be more of a problem with gold australe than wildtypes/chocolates. To me it seems that killies prefer to spawn in mix-colored mops than ones of a solid color. I have found australe too be quite adaptable fish. I had some in a large planted tank full of guppies etc... for a long while. So long as they can't jump out they do well in a community tank and will take flake etc... Fry were undemanding and thrived in bbs and grew fast with regular water changes. I never had issues with sex ratios. I now have a pair on my current lab windowsill in a 2.5 gallon tank but am having issues with green water... Production isn't that good either but I am getting eggs and have fry. Currently, I have the Cap Esterias BSWG 97-24. I find these are quite variable with males ranging from very orange to a dark chocolate brown. I haven't seen any pink ones like these: (from img.kil.palo-alto.ca.us ) To get magnificent looking males you have to keep them on their own, away from other males, then the fin extensions can really develop. So how do you keep and breed your australe?

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