If you watch closely you’ll see the one fry from this new pair of Neolamprologus bifasciatus’s first spawn swim underneath the male before the female makes an appearance. Their second spawn was three fry.
One of four species of snails that have inhabited my fish room tanks in the last 12 years.
Placidochromis phenochilus “Mdoka Reef”
Got my first spawn from this young group of Placidochromis phenochilus “Mdoka Reef”. Good things to come.
OB Peacocks
Loads of beautiful 5” OB peacocks in. Most are heavily blotched. A bunch have striking yellow color. A local pet store is wanting them all but am offering them here first.
N. buescheri “Kachese”
I’ve found it fascinating over the last year, when these N. buescheri “Kachese” began spawning, I never had any idea where the eggs were. Buescheri females do not fan or hang out by their eggs. So if I had no idea where the eggs were, perhaps predators in the lake never know where their eggs are either. Just happened tonight to shine a light in this pleco tube and found approximately 45-50 white eggs that seem to have just been laid in the last 24 hours. White, in Tanganyikan cichlids, often does not mean the eggs are infertile. Of the three pairs of buescheri “Kachese” I’ve spawned to date, this one lays the most eggs and more often than the other two did.
Most recent spawn from my Neolamprologus gracilis. Mom and dad will finish off the large brine shrimp when I walk away. Fry are eating the bbs.
24hrs after being added to their quarantine tank. Haplotaxodon microlepis. Those eyes! Will be keeping these for breeding.
Red Marble/Calico Bristlenose plecos
Lemon OB Peacock male. He’s 5”. $30.
The walls down the stairs outside my fishroom look like this after I whack out a 10g tanks Matten filter after having pleco grow outs in the tank for a year.
A bunch of large OB Peacocks just in. $25-$28.
papilio sunflower
Got a first spawn from one of my female Xenotilapia sp. “Papilio Sunflower” Kantalamba yesterday. This Xeno species pairs off when ready to spawn and stays paired. Pairs like this usually don’t tolerate others of their species near them once paired. But I wanted to see if keeping a larger group together allowed a pair to develop without the mayhem once it had, spreading out the aggression. It worked. Will move the pair after the incubation is complete. Easy to tell the pair from the others because of the fingerprint-like black markings on their dorsal fins.