Pelvicachromis roloffi "Samba" spawned

[wethumbs]

Interesting breeding behavior as compare to the "kolente". Also the male was constantly 'poking' his head into the cave to check on the spawn as well as picking up food and spitting into the cave just to have the female spit it back out.

On a different note, Congochromis sabinae has spawned 3 times already. I am testing spawn size versus conductivity....very interesting.

 

[Cichlid Junkie]

Congrats. It seems you have the magic touch for getting fish to spawn.

 

[wethumbs]

Been 8 days now and the fry are still in the cave. I finally couldnt resist and took a peek inside and saw at least 50 little ones in the corner of cave.

Here is a pic of the male with female inside the cave. Notice her darken lateral band.

Here is a pic of the female with the male inside the cave.

The school of "Samba" fry should be coming out very soon! In the mean time, the Congochromis sabinae took theirs out today.
This time is a more manageable 50+ fry instead of the 300+ that was way out of control. I finally got the conductivity dialed in to control the spawn size. I hate to see all those eggs got fungused but I hated doing 3x 50% water change every day for 300+ fry more.

To wrap the day up, Dicrossus maculatus has spawned today (like clockwork every 8 wks) and this time is going to be another 100+. Any advice on how to unload a few hundreds of these guy?! Boy, they grow so slow even with daily 50% water change. Go check out this great video on Dicrossus maculatus in their natural habitat. http://en.aquanet.tv/

 

[wethumbs]

There are close to 100 instead of the 50 I originally estimated.

 

[westafrica]

Nice job! And nice pics too!

Thanks for the behavioural observations too BTW . I'm not sure you can compare the "food spitting" behaviour of 2 pairs of distinct geographical forms and deduce it is a difference between the 2 forms though, given among different pairs of Pelvicachromis spp. you can either or not observ this trend, including among the same species / geographical form / or even among pairs formed out of the offspring of 1 same couple. It remains a really interesting observation though!

Congrats for the D. maculatus & C. sabinae spawn by the way! Any idea of the geographical form of your sabinae? They look like either Tsuhapa or Genema to me, but I may be wrong!

 

[viejo]

WETHUMBS, depending where you are located I would be interested in young D. maculatus. I am in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

 

[georgedv]

Congrats on you successfull spawns wethumbs. That video on D macs was also interesting. I am also interested in young d macs. I'm in Greenville, SC USA.

 

[sasikan]

great video on the dicrossus maculatus

 

[wethumbs]

I know, I must have watched that video a dozen times focusing on different facets of the video.