50+ F1 Fry from 2 WC Moba Mommas!!!! (with pics)

[RonR.]

I stripped 2 wc moba mommas this evening. My wc black moba momma gave me either 42 or 43 little ones!!!!!!!!!!!! I let her hold a few days longer and her mouth was super full as was my white bowl!!!!! They were wiggling all over the place and hard to count.

A 2nd wc moba momma yielded 10. So I have over 50 F1 moba fry in 2 tumblers now. WHOO-HOO!

And, I have another 10 1 1/2" F1's in my floating nursery.............so I have slightly over 60+ F1's!!!!!!!!

I have to get my batteries charged on my cam so I can post pics for my fish head friends. They are super nice!!!!!!!

My wc black moba momma is probably hitting 7 or 8 years old now so instead of giving me fewer fry, she is giving me more. I'm not complaining.

Just wanted to share this great news with my houstonfishbox pals!!!!!!

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Here are a few pics I took this evening. I have an older Sony point and shoot. My middle daughter needed a camera for her photography class at Texas Tech so I got her a Nikon D5000 ($750+ set-up). Wish I had that camera this evening! LOL


close up of newbie F1's from my wc black moba momma. Notice the uneaten food being sucked up from the bottom. I fed frozen mysis this evening. The egg-bound wigglers will begin eating the food that comes their way. The adult F1 in the pic is a baby of my wc black moba momma. He has one eye only that he damaged himself trying to get at a smaller juvie in his territory. He rubbed it against the sandy bottom in a holey rock area. He has beautiful coloring.


side by side tumblers with F1 moba wigglers!!!!!


floating nursery with 10 F1's


close up of floating nursery


lot of hiding going on since the lights were off and turned back on. I just installed the new Marineland LED lights. Got 2 36" lights on my 6 foot 180g tank. Plenty of nice light and the moba colors are not washed out.


wc mobas


traffic jam.............these wc mobas are not shy usually. They just got woken up.


Last pic for the evening before I put them to bed.

Hope you enjoyed the pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[davesolo29]

Congrats... Thats good news. Always room for more quality mobas.

[cichlid1409]

sounds like that girl is in her prime! congrats!

[Gene D]

Ron is going to end up forcing to start a front tank!

[CichlidFan]

I had so many heartbreaks with my many attempts to keep Trophs, that I had to move on.....and I'm happy with my Frontosa, they really seem to be a bit more forgiving to someone like myself who is a bit lazy when it comes to tank/water maintenance.....

I have some very nice Moba and some really nice Mpimbwe along with my clowns and Labeotropheus trewavasae. I would love to have a few of Rons' black moba's someday.

CF

[armthehomeless]

As always, congrats Ron! Do you have a running total of how many fry you have gotten out of the current colony in the last 5 years?

[RonR.]

As always, congrats Ron! Do you have a running total of how many fry you have gotten out of the current colony in the last 5 years?

I don't have an exact count but I did a little research over at cyphos where I've kept spawn numbers from 2007-current. 2009 was a slow year since my wc black moba momma got really sick on me. I thought she was a goner, but I didn't give up on her. 123 fry were spawned in 2009, 86 coming from her. In 2008 there were 182 produced which was a good year. I took an average of these 2 years and came up with an approx average of 152 fry per year. I multiplied by 5 years and got 760.

I have been underestimating my spawns since I got this colony at over 500.

[CichlidFan]

thanks for the pics....

CF

[davesolo29]

Nice looking Mobas. Thanks for sharing the fish pics.