P. t. nyete pictures

[tjudy]

FINALLY... I managed to get good pictures of one of my P. t. nyete pairs. Two pics are posted on www.cichlidae.info. Here is a link to the picture of the male:

http://www.cichlidae.info/gallery/Pelvicachromis/taeniatus-nyete.html

Check out the fry!

 

[Randall]

Pelv. taen. "Nyete"

Beautiful fish Ted. Thanks for sharing. Please take another one showing all of the caudal fin. I need one for my presentation.

Thanks!

Randall Kohn

 

[tjudy]

Randall... I have one of the male that shows the caudal fin real well, but he is angled away so you do not see the face real well. I will email it to you.

 

[tjudy]

:?
The male of the pair has pushed the female off the fry and is caring for them solo. I have not seen this behavior before. This male did spend the better part of December and January in a net because he was so brutal. I have seen females push males off... but not the other way around. I think that I will pull the fry and raise them in an incubator.

 

[Randall]

P. t. Rearing

Dear Ted,

Is artificially incubating your fry preferable to letting the male do it? Since the female has been given the boot, why not let the big brute assume the filial obligation that he has assumed?

Just an alternative perspective.

Good luck with your sweet bruiser.

Randall Kohn

 

[tjudy]

:? Part of my problem is that I do not have any free space for the female to go. If I incubate the fry, I can put bully-boy back in his net for a few weeks and then let them try again.

 

[coenga]

FINALLY... I managed to get good pictures of one of my P. t. nyete pairs.

Hi,

Nice pics !!
The green overall coloration of your Nyete is very interesting for me. I had not seen this color on Pv taeniatus before. I had the chance to have the purple blue of Moliwe and now the orange brown of dehane. This specie complex is really incredible .

BTW, on the pics I saw that you had gross gravel for substrate, why this choice?.
I personnaly prefer fine gravel with a 2-3 mm granulometry because Pv taeniatus in my short experience is an omnivorous fish with a strong geophage behavior, loving to take mouthfull of sand, chew it and spit it away or backward through the gills. fine gravel allow that behavior and the fry find easily food in this substrate as I'm not able to manage bbs eclosion.

regards,

Colin

 

[tjudy]

That gravel is actuall Seachem's Flourite. That's the only tank I have where it is used exclusively as the gravel. I am working on the Anubias in that tank more than the fish. Normally I use a smaller gravel size as well.