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I’m sure these vids take a huge time investment to make, but they are worth every second. The production quality and insights here are amazing. I hope you find this as rewarding as the breeding itself because I really enjoy your content.

You have such excellent breeding videos

Great shots and information, this breeding series is top tier. Looking forward to the next one.

This channel is an absolute banger, every video just oozes hard work, dedication and passion for the content being shown. The way the videos are structured, in a way that is packed with information but at the same time pleasant to listen to, specially due to the quality of the shots being shown at all times, is a very rare thing to find.

I know this is a year on from the time of posting, but I do like the format of the video and appreciate the effort and enthusiasm you put in to the venture. As someone who put in a lot of time and effort into a research project on apistos, I can vouch for a lot of your findings and conclusions. I only wish that digital photography had been invented when I was spending long hours cramped in front of a tank waiting for a fish to cooperate and behave. An important finding regarding this species has been published, viz. that A. agassizii is now being viewed as a species complex consisting of about a dozen cryptic variants based on its very wide distribution. They are behaviourally distinct, and trying to mate individuals from different geographical populations can be problematic. Fertility issues with failures being reported from hard water areas are not unusual, as well as skewed sex ratios being produced at different pHs. A. agassizii is definitely one of those dwarfs that prefer soft water with an acid pH, although it is not regarded by many aquarists (and researchers) as a blackwater species. It is suspected that minerals in hard water cause the egg surface to become less permeable to sperm penetration. So, the use of a water softener (not necessarily RO) would be beneficial for anyone contemplating breeding this species.

Great video.Thank you for being so informative in keeping and breeding these fantastic fish

Great video as always, cant wait for the next

Awesome can’t wait to try this!

Incredible work, thank you

Awesome as always. Thanks

Great video, love the style and effort that goes into these!

Great Video! Explained with great detail and though!

Love your videos and will now add my voice to the chorus of people asking for a tour of the fish lab.

This is one of the best and most comprehensive breeding vids I have seen, thank you.❤

Thank you for another great tutorial. I'm thinking about getting in to breeding fish, and have been watching a lot of videos on the subject lately. Yours really stand out due to the high production value and well-planned, very detailed narration. I really appreciate all particulars you include about your successes and failures. Great work and I look forward to your next one!

Just want to say I recently found your channel, and you are awesome. Rose to you sir 🌹 for such great informative videos FOR FREE

Insanely informative. These videos are top notch. Keep it up👏

I like your content. Very calm and clear.

Outstanding videos.

Great content, thank you for putting it out. I recently purchased 6 and hope to have some fry in the next year or two. Cheers!

I'm new here, but your breeding videos are absolutely amazing. Thank you! I've got a few pairs of Apistogramma Hongsloi that I'm trying to breed and your apisto videos have helped me come up with a couple of tweaks! Thank you!

Beautifully captured. Wishing you great success with the channel

I've had the situation where a pair of sp. Wilhelmi would have back to back spawns in a tank, about 3 weeks apart. The older fry would always start chewing on the new fry as soon as they would start to move. I don't think the older fry were able to swallow the younger ones, but little ones got damaged beyond recovery. The mother did not intervene. I was trying to produce large numbers at that time, so I changed the approach. I offered pieces of driftwood as spawning sites. They were fine with that. I would remove the piece of driftwood with the eggs to a separate tank, and the parents would spawn again in 2 weeks. The fry are a bit lost when they hatch not having the mother, but they grew up just fine.

Hurray for The Wet Spot store💙! It's my favorite fish store in Portland, Oregon. Definitely first rate!

Your voice is just 🥰🤌 Thanks for deep conversation of fishes Love and respect from India 🇮🇳 ❤️

Thanks!

Love your vids and commentary I’m into my second spawn of Kribs Mrs K started bashing up Mr K First spawn was in a community tank and he did a great job protecting, to the point I had to take out the community Second spawn she started showing signs of aggression towards him so I put in some diver fish to give him something to do Didn’t work I walk passed a few hours later and he’d lost half his tail, pectoral fin and was in the corner looking very pale and stressed Thank god I had another community tank established so I moved him over 😅 She’s looking after the kids now 🤞🏼 I love these guys Love the hobby Better than TV 😁

You are the best, hope to learn more from you. I love cory. Surprised to see gold laser Cory video on yt. Usually is the more common cory. Havent seen pygmy cory tho, hope you can do one.

Awesome video , currently struggling with my pair

I'm local to Portland area, wet spot has an amazing selection apistos always get their sexing correct and healthy! (As are all the fish I get from them) Also I love your videos and footage is top notch! 👌

I have watched many a KZfaq video but it is very rare that I will subscribe or comment. I wanted to tell you that even though you have a love/hate relationship with making these videos, they are truly so helpful. I love that you share what you have see others have done in their videos and if you agree with them or not and why. I would love to know how you keep hydra out of your fry/spawning tanks? When I have bred fish in the past, I always worry that I would stress them out too much if I am always cleaning. I had a pair of fire red apistos breed in a quarantine tank. (I quarantine all new fish). I had micro worms available so I used them as they are very small but it gave me hydra. Can you share your words of wisdom and first hand knowledge how to stop this from happening? I plan to breed a few species of fish going forward. I also wanted to mention that with the fire reds, they did have a success spawn and my tap water’s pH is around 8-8.4 with a gh and kh of 6. I did add almond leaves to their tank as I know they do like softer water but unfortunately my water has gone up a bit since I started keeping fish. Thanks again for such great quality videos.

This is awesome! Thanks for the video. I am trying to breed the apistogramma fire reds. This is good information and a step to breeding them. I am curious to know how long does the fry take to hatch when the eggs are laid. I recently got some red eggs inside a cocount shell.

Awesome video! I have my first batch of fire reds fixing to hatch out. The powder fry food mix you mention is that basically just a first bites mixed with water? I have the baby brine shrimp hatchery covered

Try Redfish Bluefish. They have a varied assortment of apistogramma. A little low right now, but they should be getting another shipment in a month. I got a trio of super fire red agassizii from them, and they're beautiful. Not to say anything bad about the Wetspot. I just found their selection to be a bit more of what I was looking for. Check out the Blue Flame agassizii. They are gorgeous. Great video, as always.

As for the water acclimation stuff (post-spawn), I’d say you don’t need to be as careful as you think. It’s a possibility that the water needs to be more acidic before hatching to make the eggs softer, thus easier to oxygenate and hatch out of. Once they’re out and slightly bigger I’m sure the fry can handle changes in PH. Just a guess, but I’ve never bred Agassizii before. I also have a question: How and when do you wean fry and young fish off of live foods?

Hey man, i remember you making your own breeder box, do you by any chance have the 3d model public? I kind of want to try it out for my sterbai corydoras

Another great video! What PH is your tap water at?

Please tell me you are working on Julidochromis Marlieri?

Amazing video! Do you also make videos for the Alien Theory, youtube channel? Your voices are very simillar.

This video was amazing as usual! Have you ever tried breeding any killifish species? I think that could be really interesting!

Another excellent video! What fry powder you use?

What is the best food to feed them

Discus next!

Thank you very much for sharing. Have you tried them with kuhli loaches as tank mates?

What fry powder do u use?

So I’ve had a pair of Apistogramma Hongsloi in a 10 gallon for a while now and they’ve been getting along fine. I started using RO water last week and removed the corydoras from the tank to encourage breeding, the female immediately started coloring up into breeding colors. She’s been swimming in front of the male doing the shimmering swim sideways. However, the male doesn’t seem to be that interested….and the female has become quite nippy for the past day. I was wondering if this is the female guarding her spawn or if this was frustration that the male is not interested, and if it’s the latter, how can I encourage mating behaviors from the male? Do I need to set up a new tank and introduce both of them to the new tank?

How old will the be before they start showing colour please.

Now it has been two months since I started to try breeding A. Macmasteri but still nothing. They always seem to be breeding in days but never actually breed.

A spectacular video, I have a Spanish-speaking aquarium channel, and I would love to use your video to talk about the reproduction of the Apistogramma agassizii. Only if you give me your permission. Of course, your name will always be at the top of the video and also in the description of the video saying that the images are from your channel. Thank you

I was wondering What did you do to trigger them to spawn?

do u think i can put 2 pairs 3 paira in a 40 breeder , and they still breed, with kribensis this worked for me but i wanna try appistos

I use reverse osmosis filtered water. Although the pH of the filtered water is 6.5, the pH of my water in the aquarium does not go below 8. I kept the filtered water outside for 5 days, the pH value has not changed at 6.5, which means that the pH value is rising inside the aquarium. How important is the pH value for the reproduction of apistogrammas?

Boss pls update new daphnia culturing. My culture always crash even i did it like yours

Please whst age before rhey start to show colour I recently bought 6 and I think they are all females 🤔

My breeding pair has not laid any eggs yet. No idea what to do. Nothing seems to work

Is a ph of 7.2 too high ?

my agassizzi male is busy bulling other fish in tank than eating himself. he is smaller than female i brought along with him.