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Great looking fish!
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215g Malawi Peacocks and Mbuna
180g Tropheus Ikola and Bemba and Clown Loaches
58g Bristlenose breeding and grow out -
nice pickup !!Comment
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10-day Update video. They're flashing their blue colors, but the yellow really hasn't come out yet. They're looking healthy to me though. eating like horses.
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They're finally starting to establish dominance. A whole lot more action in the tank now!
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Nice updateComment
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Wow! Look at those flashes. Lookin good. Can't wait to see the paracyps in there too!All bleeding stops eventually...Comment
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Very nice and looking terrificIn the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
GHAC PresidentComment
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Woke up to a female holding today. Not a big mouthful, but it's a start. First one of the colony. Going to let a few batches grow up in the tank.
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Sweet!In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
GHAC PresidentComment
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I swore I didn't have a female that was over 2", but Bertha here is as big as the males, pushing 4"!Comment
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Ours breed at 3-4" and are fairly regular. Ours lost quite a few of the first batches and the fry were large, but harder to raise then I realized. Sponges over the intakes helps a lot. Powdered flake and they'll eventually grow and be strong enough to avoid the filter suction.In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
GHAC PresidentComment
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I'm sure I'll eventually strip them after 12-14 days or so and toss in their own tank to grow. I read that you only get around 3-5x 0.75" fry as muture breeders from cyps, so it will be interesting what happens if you actually strip themComment
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We tried, I would recommend not doing it. The result was awful and we lost the entire batch. They are hard to strip and gauging days is tough. The female spits out good sized fry and they are large enough once they come out to do well on their own.In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
GHAC PresidentComment
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Stripping too early will result in the fry possibly dying. Cyps are more finicky than most other Africans. And the number of fry you quoted is not correct from my experience. I've helped my friend strip his cyps and the numbers are always 10-15. Cyps are harder to strip than trophs and they die easier with stress, so be careful.210gPetrochromis Macrognatus Green 'Nsumbu
125g Mdoka White Lip
"Success is the willingness to fail"Comment
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Looks like I have a second female holding now too. Small batches, unless their mouth doesn't really fill up until the fry start growing. I'll get a better feel for what I'll do once I let these fish spit on their own these first couple monthsComment
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