briztoon
Mon Aug 02, 2010, 09:29 AM
If you haven't looked at the other post, you really should read it first.
I bought a new male agassizii alenquer last week to replace the one I euthanized. He was a sub-dominant sneaker male in the LFS tank, smaller than my two females, and looked like a female apart from some faint patternation in his caudal fin. I figured that the females wouldn't be too interested in him untill he had started to grow some and look like an adult male. I was wrong. The day after I bought him I was sure he had mated with the sub-dominant female. So I removed him from the females and put him in a large breeders net in the tank. Yesterday I could not see any signs of the female guarding her crevice or fry, so I figured it was safe to put him back in with the females. Woke up today and the sub-dominant female had about 20, just starting to free swim, fry on the driftwood around her crevice and the dominant female had built a sandcastle around a small upturned piece of curved driftwood. For tank bred apisto's, they have no interest in using small clay pots as spawning sites.
OK a couple of poor photos of the sub-dominant female. I doubt you'll make out any fry in the photos.
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I bought a new male agassizii alenquer last week to replace the one I euthanized. He was a sub-dominant sneaker male in the LFS tank, smaller than my two females, and looked like a female apart from some faint patternation in his caudal fin. I figured that the females wouldn't be too interested in him untill he had started to grow some and look like an adult male. I was wrong. The day after I bought him I was sure he had mated with the sub-dominant female. So I removed him from the females and put him in a large breeders net in the tank. Yesterday I could not see any signs of the female guarding her crevice or fry, so I figured it was safe to put him back in with the females. Woke up today and the sub-dominant female had about 20, just starting to free swim, fry on the driftwood around her crevice and the dominant female had built a sandcastle around a small upturned piece of curved driftwood. For tank bred apisto's, they have no interest in using small clay pots as spawning sites.
OK a couple of poor photos of the sub-dominant female. I doubt you'll make out any fry in the photos.
Flash on
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd105/pk3333/Dwarf%20cichlid%20tanks/011.jpg
Flash off
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd105/pk3333/Dwarf%20cichlid%20tanks/009.jpg