Rams are gone
My two german rams spawned last night, after only 3 days in there new home. But alas, the eggs did not survive until morning and both fish died by the following afternoon. I am not quite sure what happened...
My two german rams spawned last night, after only 3 days in there new home. But alas, the eggs did not survive until morning and both fish died by the following afternoon. I am not quite sure what happened...
This morning, a gaggle of new fry were out swimming with the P. pulcher mother and father today. There appears to be about 50 or so new ones out there, which seems good for their first spawn. One of the fry, know known as "fast Eddy" was swimming above the rest and doing some cool loops when the father sucked him out of his mouth. One would have thought that the dad was hungry, but in fact he swam back to the others and spit the little guy out. Fast Eddy was in no way harmed by the ordeal. It is just another reminder that these fish make awesome parents. I will post pick as soon as I can take a decent one.
My Pel. Pulchers went ahead and bred again! I suppose that they cannot wait until they move into their new home. At this point, I will have to keep them in their 10gal and see what happens with the eggs. It has been about 2 days now and all of the eggs appear to still be in tact. I will let the parents look after the fry for a couple of weeks and then I will pull the parents into their bigger tank and allow the fry to grow in the 10 gal.
Update on progress: The Endlers are doing great. Both females are getting close to dropping their fry. The male is really coloring up nicely. I will post pictures soon.
I recently collect a nice trio of Endlers from an LFS in Columbus, Ohio. The male is particularly nice and currently the females are getting ready to drop a few fry. Right now these little beauties are in a 5 gal tank with a sponge filter. I have a 10 gal that I plan on using for the fry. I plan on posting some more pics soon.
P. pulchers are doing well in their new tank. I will be moving them shortly to a permanent 20gal tank. I have decided against putting them in the 75gal African tank for now based on some sound advise I recived from Ted Judy www.tedsfishroom.com The pair spawned this weekend. Unfortunately the female ate the eggs. This is pretty common for a first attempt. I am not concerned as the pair seem to have bonded nicely.