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Wyomingite Fish Wrangler
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Age : 56 Location : Wonderful Windy Wyoming Humor : "I drank what?" - Socrates Favorite Fish : I won't choose and ya can't make me!
| Subject: And on the Other Side of The Atlantic... Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:14 am | |
| it's pretty boring.
The Feeder Factory was puttin' out baby convicts faster than I could scoop them out until the male decided to beat up the female, she's in QT healing. The male GT up and died, and since the GT in the 225 was gettin' pounded by the oscars, I pulled him out and put him w/ the female. She's ready to spawn and every trick in the book hasn't got him into the mood.
I did some rearranging, and saint's hybrid Amphilophus are now in a 90 with the Bastard Red Devil from the Abyss. He stopped hiding and they are all over him. The hybrids (which incidentally, all turned out to be males, in the end) are between 5 and 7 inches, the BRDA is 9 inches. This tank is LOADED with testosterone! This combo came about after the amphies started doubling or even tripling up on the redhead. He was holdin' his own, in spite of bein' outnumbered, but was losing a few too many scales. So he's in a 55 'til he grows another coupla inches, then he'll be 'bout the size of the smallest oscar, and to the 225 he will go.
Last thing I got goin' on with New World cichlids is a pair of blue rams. These two were spawning in the tank at the store when I bought them. And I haven't had a spawn yet. They start goin' through the motions, I think I'm gonna have eggs soon, and then things cool off between them before it happens. They are gorgeous and seem to be perennially in spawning coloration. Conditioned on baby cons, frozen blood worms and the copepods they glean off of the leaves of the Amazon swords in their tank. The only thing I can figure is the water is too hard. I can get it down to 150 GH and 80 KH, and the pH down to 7.2. I'm really startin' to consider pullin' out the RO unit...
Lookin' for various dwarf cichlids to work with...otherwise not much planned for the future.
Non-cichlidwise, working with bumblebee catfish (Microglanis iheringi) and with the BNs. Have two males and two females there, and the odds look pretty good.
WYite
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| | | Redneck Woman Invert Junkie
Posts : 784
Age : 57 Location : Kentucky Favorite Fish : angels,but kribs are a very close second
| Subject: Re: And on the Other Side of The Atlantic... Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:55 pm | |
| Would love to see pictures of those Rams. I had a pair before the house fire that didn't spawn for the longest time and finally someone suggested I raise the temperature to 84. I did and they spawned almost immediatly. Of course my Angels did too but I lost them all. I would really love to have another pair but don't see them around here often. | |
| | | Wyomingite Fish Wrangler
Posts : 1781
Age : 56 Location : Wonderful Windy Wyoming Humor : "I drank what?" - Socrates Favorite Fish : I won't choose and ya can't make me!
| Subject: Re: And on the Other Side of The Atlantic... Sat Sep 10, 2011 8:56 am | |
| I'll see what I can do. I haven't tried, might be able to swing it with the cell...LOL.
Temp is hovering right at 81°-82°. I might throw a heater in there and see if I can get it up another coupla degrees, thanks, Tina.
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| | | Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist
Posts : 4566
Age : 44 Location : New Mexico USA Favorite Fish : Jaguar Cichlid
| Subject: Re: And on the Other Side of The Atlantic... Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:50 am | |
| Sounds great Ivan, I love the sound of all those Cichlids. I think the Green Terrors are wusses unless they are trying to spawn. | |
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