Looks like a proper haul of fry! Keep us posted here. Unlike your other rift lake cichlids, these might possibly predate their own fry at some point. Beautiful colors on those adults.
The parents have moved the clutch of fry around the tank, at first I thought all the fry were gone because they weren't where they were originally but then I just saw that the parents moved them to the other end of the tank and then again to another area.
I keep these in a 40 breeder. I had purchased a group of 7 from DavesRareFish in September.
I use basically the same water that I use for Tanganyikan cichlids.
Feed them quality flake, supplemented with occasional PE Mysis, Calanus, and now frozen baby brine shrimp and golden pearls for the fry. I will also feed crushed flake to the fry, the same flake that I feed to the adults.
The tank has a sandy substrate with some large softball sized rocks scattered around. The pair dug around one of the stones so that it leaned towards another and placed their eggs on a side, I believe. I was not able to see the eggs, although I could detect the spawning activity.
It was also a challenge to remove the other adults, leaving only the pair.
Looks like a proper haul of fry! Keep us posted here. Unlike your other rift lake cichlids, these might possibly predate their own fry at some point. Beautiful colors on those adults.
—Dave McGrew, 2023 BAP Chair—
The parents have moved the clutch of fry around the tank, at first I thought all the fry were gone because they weren't where they were originally but then I just saw that the parents moved them to the other end of the tank and then again to another area.
I keep these in a 40 breeder. I had purchased a group of 7 from DavesRareFish in September.
I use basically the same water that I use for Tanganyikan cichlids.
Feed them quality flake, supplemented with occasional PE Mysis, Calanus, and now frozen baby brine shrimp and golden pearls for the fry. I will also feed crushed flake to the fry, the same flake that I feed to the adults.
The tank has a sandy substrate with some large softball sized rocks scattered around. The pair dug around one of the stones so that it leaned towards another and placed their eggs on a side, I believe. I was not able to see the eggs, although I could detect the spawning activity.
It was also a challenge to remove the other adults, leaving only the pair.