40 Wild Ikola first week for most of them!

[Chris Derrick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DuS1IQUAuo

Please bear with me, first time trying to post video and my 3 year old had just got up and was angry in background sorry! Fingers crossed hope this works. If so I will get better pics. O yeh the white dots on some of there heads is from running into the rocks trying to escape over excited males lol.

[Chris Derrick]

13 of these wild caught are from Little Africa Aquatics (Greg) and they have been in the tank since Feb and produced one fry because they were in with 16 Wild Chilanga and about 20 Chilanga fry. I decided to sell the Chilanga and add to my Ikola Colony so I purchased 26 Wild Caught from Chip at Bluechipaquatics they are still on the skinny side and some fins nibbled on but they are doing fine. I just got them in Friday and they are already eating well and just started giving small amounts of NLS in there diet of Spirilina Flakes! After water change last night I had 8 fish doing the wild thing at the same time so hopefully they will kick out the fry soon! There is 12Males and 28Females! Thanks CD

[myjohnson]

Chris,

Nice to see the fish are doing well and looking active. I see you removed all the sand too. How are the new males interacting with the old ones? I know you said the new ones came in bigger than the old ones. Hope not too much fighting.

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[geoff_tropheus]

I was going to fix your link but my work blocks youtube, so I will have to fix it later.

Thanks for posting, Chris. I cannot wait to see the vid

Geoff

[Gene D]

Nice wide yellow bands on those Ikolas. I am starting to come around on the no substrate look also

[cichlid1409]

Nice wide yellow bands on those Ikolas.

+1 nice fishes, man.

[Chris Derrick]

Nice wide yellow bands on those Ikolas. I am starting to come around on the no substrate look also

Thanks, I am not a 100% on the no substrate look yet but the maintance side is amazing how easy it is. Also my FX5 doesn't suck in a ton of sand and tear it up any more. I may got with different rock in the future I have river rock but they seem to fall to easy especially without sand under them so I went back with my holey rock. I am getting lots of algae on bottom glass not crazy about this but Geoff says my Tropheus and my Bristlenose are both lazy or there wouldn't be any algea! Thanks everyone more video's tonight. CD

[Chris Derrick]

Chris,

Nice to see the fish are doing well and looking active. I see you removed all the sand too. How are the new males interacting with the old ones? I know you said the new ones came in bigger than the old ones. Hope not too much fighting.

To post video, go to the advance post and click on the little youtube icon that's near the top right hand corner.

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MJ Thanks, Well most of the new guys were smaller females but there is one female that came in that is the largest fish in the tank! Now the males well lets just say I have gotten splashed more then once the last few days from there playing! For the most part I had one stud that is pretty big and there is one new stud they picked sides but the new guy likes to go to the other side now and then and has to be straightened out lol No white lips or hurt fins yet lol. CD