Honduran Red Points Cichlids Breeding - Free Swimming Fry :)

[SBL]

Srry,
i have been ignoring this thread for some reason. My biggest is, I wanna say, 3" and he's a devil. Him and the other male his size are overly aggressive when they get hungry, I had no flake food for some time so the got fed maybe one good feeding a week for 2 weeks and they started to take it out on my Serpaes, I only have 4 now. Also, a tip is whenyou give yours away, your gonna regret it when you see your fish again. I took about 15 of the buggers to the lfs and now I see about half of them still there after a month are looking better than my 6 I have now. One is even in the 125 show tank and has to be 4 inches, almost big as my male.

 

[kaivalagi]

There's not been any updates for a while....I only posted here today after quite some time so I doubt you've ignored it

About the growth rates at the LFS, that'll be the automatic water changing I guess they have helping with the growth rate....or they're using meth' blue

Natural growth rates in tanks generally aren't that quick...

 

[SBL]

they do have great filtration with continuos waterchanges, UV lights, and couple thousand gallons of water a hour on about 500 gallon systems. They rarely have sick fish or dead fish due to sickness

 

[kaivalagi]

The parents have a BIG batch of new wrigglers now...there are around 15 juvies in the tank also....I see problems coming

I think I may put the HRP breeding pair up for sale, depending on what the outcome of this situation is...

I tried moving the HRP male and then both parents into the main tank but they were just too "nasty"

I may turn the tank into a juvie retreat...longer term I will need somewhere for geo and sev fry too, but keeping the bioload up to sustain the filter is a must really

Any suggestions welcome

 

[SBL]

Where are you locate Kaiv? in UK or US?
edit: nevermind, just saw the rotkeil and realized must be in UK because star is.

 

[kaivalagi]

Here's the new bunch, just starting to move about:

 

[kaivalagi]

Got home and a lot of the bigger fry/juvi have been killed and eaten by the parents, so I have managed to save 7 (1 albino looking a bit poorly) by moving them into the big tank. One albino was added last week as it was bigger than the others by a bit and has done fine in the tank on it's own.

The next tricky bit will be catching them to pass on when they are big enough!

 

[SBL]

Cool, your pair looks about same size as my pair. My Male is 10cm and female is 8.5cm. How big is yours?

 

[kaivalagi]

Yep, much the same, I think my male is slightly bigger but can't be exact as I can't measure right now....everytime I get close he starts trying to butt me!

 

[SBL]

I moved my pair into another tank and I am seeing good signs of spawning. Soon as they lay eggs, all other fish are going into other tank which has only couple of other fish. So I'm hoping for another $40 to get a spare 20 long to rear fry in.

 

[kaivalagi]

I thought a pic of one of the Leucistic juvies was in order, these guys are great, I have 2 I've kept:

More pics of all my fish in my tank journal, link in sig

 

[SBL]

WOW! I want a white HRP! My pair need to stop fighting. Need to put up divider again

 

[kaivalagi]

WOW! I want a white HRP! My pair need to stop fighting. Need to put up divider again

They always seem to be the strongest of all the fry too...

 

[SBL]

How early did you notice they where Leucistic?

 

[kaivalagi]

How early did you notice they where Leucistic?

As soon as you start seeing marking on the others, I count at least 3 out of ~20 in the current fry batch (small batch and quite a few died off early)

It's pretty apparent early on, you see translucent strips rather than the norm...

Mine still have a blue hue on the bottom fins though, I bet they'll look really nice when a big bigger