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[Chopstick_mike]

Just about... Just another spawn, mum didn't feed them because they were spawning! <br /><br />Plenty of fry if anyone wants some <br /><br />I'm downing in babies

i like your fry setup how long do you keep your fry in the saver for?

[LexAgate]

i like your fry setup how long do you keep your fry in the saver for?

As soon as the egg sack is 90% absorbed by the fish, I move them from the tumbler to a fry saver that I can stick to the glass, then when they reach 2cm+ I will chuck them in with their other siblings!

[LexAgate]

This is getting ridiculous!

[Bunky twincam]

Baby Princess Cichlids

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[Poncho]

Williamsi blue lips finally have a mouthful and my pair of Topaz cichlids (septemfasciatus) look like they have spawned at the back of the tank. Can't really see eggs as they look like they're fanning eggs on a rock face facing away from the front of the tank - but the behaviour and coloration suggests they've spawned.

[Mattia]

I guess someone knows how to sex cichlids

[Poncho]

Yeah not sure - could have been beginners luck

[BengaBoy]

had a 50/50 chance

[myster619]

My Pigeonblood discus bred recently. Only a few hatched. 

 

[snakebite729]

Cynotilapia sp. hara  
One female spat out about 20 fry yesterday and I spotted another female that wasn't holding last night at feeding time with a mouthful this afternoon. Looks like busy times ahead with these guys!

[Mattia]

Nice! Not a common specie this one. Have got any pics of the parents?

[snakebite729]

Nice! Not a common specie this one. Have got any pics of the parents?

They are extremely hard to get good photos of, especially with a phone, but here's the best one I managed to get of the alpha. He's about 13cm.

[Terry]

My Apistogramma macmasteri have about 20 free swimming fry, my colony has dwindled to 2 adults due to old age and I thought the parents were too old to spawn.

 

The boucourti are doing well there are about 130 of them at 4 cm I'll start selling them at 5 cm. 

 

I kept 2 of the Chalinachromis ndobhoi the rest went over East.

Edited by Terry, 20 March 2016 - 08:57 AM.

[chrishaigh82]

Our sani spot has a lady friend however seems madly in love with this dolphin.  Courting for weeks, eating each other.  #wontcometomuch  

 

[Chopstick_mike]

My yellow belly Albert spat her first batch today around 30 fry that's the male so hoping they look like him

[Bunky twincam]

What the heck,

 

Had my female Princess Cichlid in a small tank with her first lot of fry, they fry have grown to about 2-3cms long over the last few months.

 

I look in the tank today and bugger me a new lot of fry swimming around.

 

There must be a very potent young male in that fry tank and then I thought, yuck she just bred with her direct offspring, what do I do with this fry?

 

Cheers

[Poncho]

Princess cichlids will spawn again without eating or chasing away the last brood. Leave them in the tank together and watch how they do it

[malawiman85]

Brichardi make a nice, hardy little colony.

[Chopstick_mike]

Yes I found them and zebra Obliquins a very prolific breeders

[Chopstick_mike]

Just got 10 or so labeotropheus trewavasae first batch so let her spit them