Brichardi Exile

[CichlidFan]

Maybe some of you are aware that I have a "gang" of 6 adult brichardi, that I call the Cedar Point Gang. They have been together for the past 4 months. From my experience level and best guess, I would say that the 3 larger brichardi are males, and the three smaller brichardi are the females.

Well you know that for the past 6 or 7 weeks now, these 6 brichardi have been pumping out little brichardi like there's no tomorrow for them, but just a few minutes ago, fishlady and I observed a very strange incident. One of the female brichardi seems to have been exiled from the "gang" or family if you will.

I noticed a single small female near the surface of the tank, which is very unusual for them, as they NEVER come to the surface. She appears to be in good health, but does seem a bit "ragged" for lack of a better way to describe her condition. It looks like she has been chased around the tank for hours and is try to recoup or rest up from the chasing.

Does anyone have any idea why the other members of her "family" would do this too her? Did she violate some kind of rule perhaps within the group? Maybe she was not being as attentive to the smaller fry as she was supposed to be?  I don't really have a clue here, I'm only guessing.  

But if anyone has any idea or you have heard of a member being exiled from an exsisting family or grouping of fish, please share your comments with me.

Regards


CF

[armthehomeless]

Re: Brichardi Exile

I have a reverse trio of leleupi and the dominant male will chase the other male into the corner while he courts the female.

If all the fish and fry are still in the same tank, the Cedar Point Gang could have decided they needed to decrease their numbers - and thus exiled one (be it male or female).

I would put it in another tank to recover for the time being.

Just my two cents.

[eklikewhoa]

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A friends colony did that too and continued to kick another member out as soon as he removed the "exciled" but fortunately he had a large colony so it really didn't cut down the breeding.

Try rearranging the territory so they re establish themselves again and hopefully reaccept the one. Either that or buy new few new females to introduce/replace the kicked out.

Maybe try and set two distinguished rockpiles on the opposing sides and hope for the colony to split in the process re-accpeting the picked on.

[CichlidFan]

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Hummm....maybe it's time to give some of these older juvi's away......?

CF

Hey, we're going out to look at a tank, some of you folks who have been interested in some of these fry....pm me and let me know if your still interested.
We'll be back around 7pm or so....

[Hanson77]

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Do you have any pics of these guys....

[CichlidFan]

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I've got a video I can put up on the web ....let me see how long that will take ....going to work on this after dinner.

CF

[semper]

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CF

just saw your post, i will take some

let me know when i can pickup

tanks

[MJY6087]

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Cf, how much are you askin for em?  I just lost 4 of them in a disaster today, looking to get 4 back.

[CichlidFan]

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Well, for those of you who are interested, I am not selling my fry....I mean I do want to find homes for them, but I want them to go to good homes where they will have a chance at a decent life. They are, after all, part of my "Cedar Point Gang" and I would believe they left here with a better than decent chance for a good life. Such as it is for a fish.

In short, they are for free.....just don't use them for feeders or toss them in with hungry fish that will eat them.

But, if you have something to trade....that's cool too... :)

Just be cool and give them a chance to grow up......that's all we ask.

CF/FL

PM me for best time to pick up.

[CichlidFan]

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Try this link from You Tube to see their actual size. Video taken this morning by Fishlady.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al9VrgSFh-8

CF

Oh...and you can type in Cedar Point Gang or Brichardi as the search tag.

[Firecracker]

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How is your gang doing?  I have heard that if you try to remove some of the fry the parents will freak out and eat the rest of the babies...?

[fishlady]

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they don't get that freaky or at least they haven't in there yet....he's harvested 2 batches out of there so far for others...they just keep having more of them.... 8O

[Tiapan]

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mine keep breeding no matter what i do and now some of the fry are surviving in the tank, i havent had time to mess with them. my brichardis are in my 55 with calvus, julies, and some nice big leleupis, and a petricola, and some cyps. so there are lots of fish that can eat the fry, dont really have time to raise the brichardis right now, so what live live, my cyp babies are gettin bigger though, but hey in the future i wouldnt mind trading a few of my brichardis for a few of urs to get new blood in the tank. maybe i get some of raul's daffodils for another tank :wink:

[lepaul37]

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CF fishlady, The CP gang is going good. As soon as they get settled Ill take some shot of them. Thanks a bunch

[Firecracker]

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Tiapan - How many of each do you have in your tank? Do the leleupi
           and brichardi bother each other? Ever had leleupi babies in there?

lepaul37 - Have you gotten down to the ones you're going to keep now?
              I enjoyed your video - Thanks for posting :-)