[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Index by Month]
Re: Cren. Puntulata success:-)
There you go Colin you have been witness to one of natures mystery's
Soft Water Dwarf Cichlids
Uwe Romer & David Soares
14697 S. Bluegrass Ln.
Sisters OR, 97759
Phone/541-549-9350
apistodave@bendcable.com
www.apistogrammaidiots.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Gorton" <mr_apisto@graffiti.net>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Cren. Puntulata success:-)
> Yeah, I'm pretty sure they were all females, the dominant one grew and
grew! I noticed the change of colouration (ie sex) starting a couple of
months ago.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Soares" <apistodave@bendcable.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 07:04:25 -0700
> To: <apisto@listbox.com>
> Subject: Re: Cren. Puntulata success:-)
>
>
> > Congratulations Colin they are a difficult fish but the Germans have
> > actually spawned them quite regular you might have been having a gender
> > problem and it just flipped over for you!
> > Soft Water Dwarf Cichlids
> > Uwe Romer & David Soares
> > 14697 S. Bluegrass Ln.
> > Sisters OR, 97759
> > Phone/541-549-9350
> > apistodave@bendcable.com
> > www.apistogrammaidiots.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Colin Gorton" <mr_apisto@graffiti.net>
> > To: <apisto@listbox.com>
> > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 6:48 AM
> > Subject: Cren. Puntulata success:-)
> >
> >
> > > Hi folks,
> > > On Saturday evening I got home to find a brood of Crenicara Puntulata
> > swimming around. I was especially pleased because I'd started to
> > think that they'd never do anything, especially having read of other
> > people's experiences as well as what there is about them in Mayland and
> > Bork.
> > > My experience has been completely different from that in M+B, the
female
> > developed a very strong continuous lateral line and continues to show
this
> > now. They bred in a 130 gallon (500litre) tank with various other fish
(I'm
> > using the 130 primarily as a grow-out tank) which is heavily planted at
one
> > end but with very little cover at the other except for dense floating
plants
> > (Eichornia Crassipes and Pistia Stratiotes.) The tank has MH lighting,
CO2
> > injection, substrate heating with water at 0º for both KH and GH.
> > > I was particularly interested to note that she chose the unplanted end
to
> > spawn, but having watched her behaviour it seems that she chose that end
> > because she can see any potential threat coming from a long way off. I
never
> > actually saw the spawn though I did notice that both the male (who was
> > previously female) had changed colour (yellow ventral fins and a blue
sheen
> > to the rest of the body and the lateral line became very indistinct.
Having
> > seen these changes I spent quite a long time looking for signs of eggs
but
> > couldn't see them and thought it must be another false alarm. She must
have
> > worked quite hard at protecting the eggs as there are a couple of Corys
in
> > the tank as well as Pencil fish, Ap. Steindachneri fry N. Taenia fry, M.
> > Altispinosus as well as various Otos. I don't suppose that any are
> > particularly notorious egg stealers (except the Corys) but the number of
> > fish in there must have made her job quite tough. So far about 30 fry
have
> > survived.
> > > The female is doing most of the guard duties but the male is also
being
> > more aggressive towards the other females. He does come into the
mother's
> > territory and isn't attacked unless he comes VERY close to the fry. In
fact,
> > in most instances I would have said that behaviour is very similar to
that
> > of Apistos (other than being an substrate spawner): the female moves her
fry
> > around quite regularly and protects the young, in addition she cleans an
> > area of detritus before moving the young to a new site. Most of the time
the
> > young are quite active but when they're not, mum sort of "piles them up"
> > into a mound. The fry are quite a strange "bent comet" shape,
with a
> > very obvious head and tail and nothing else very visible, a very
different
> > shape from the parents, more like the shape you'd expect from a
Biotoecus or
> > Dicrossus.
> > > I'm going to be away from home for a few days and debating whether to
> > leave all the fry in their current tank or whether to transfer them,
does
> > anybody have any suggestions?
> > >
> > > As I've said before, I don't seem to have problems with the
"difficult"
> > ones, but can never get the "easy" ones to breed<:-).
> > > --
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net
> > >
> > > Powered by Outblaze
> > >
> > >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com.
> > > For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help,
> > > email apisto-request@listbox.com. apisto-digest@listbox.com also
> > available.
> > > Web archives at http://lists.thekrib.com/apisto
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com.
> > For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help,
> > email apisto-request@listbox.com. apisto-digest@listbox.com also
available.
> > Web archives at http://lists.thekrib.com/apisto
> >
>
>
>
> C:-)lin
>
> They said "Smile, things could be worse." So I smiled, and sure enough...
>
> --
> _______________________________________________
> Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net
>
> Powered by Outblaze
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com.
> For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help,
> email apisto-request@listbox.com. apisto-digest@listbox.com also
available.
> Web archives at http://lists.thekrib.com/apisto
>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com.
For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help,
email apisto-request@listbox.com. apisto-digest@listbox.com also available.
Web archives at http://lists.thekrib.com/apisto