Re: L. CURVICEPS

[cfonda@sentientconsult.com]

Antonio wrote:
>    The B. Rerio attacks the fry, until parents realized, so they become
>fish food instead of dither fish, they were dead and eaten in less than
>24 h., I thought Curviceps were a peaceful fish.
They are normally peaceful... but they are cichlids, and like most dwarfs
(and most cichlids in general) can be very brutal in defending their young.

>    I've seen some "white dots" in father's body, and fry's seems to eat
>of, could this be something like discus?. Right now, about 3 weeks from
>free swimming the dots have disappeared.
Sounds interesting.  I have never heard of anything like this in dwarfs...
anyone have any ideas???

>    Parents are eating sand snails, the big ones, I think they try to
>catch them when snail is out, as they can't break the shell.
I guess they think sand snails taste good :)

>    Yesterday I decided to take the fry's (they are quite big and with a
>bit of colour already) to other tank, for I want to put the fishes I
>removed first, but I had two problems, first, I couldn't catch every fry
>(there are still a lot, more than 200), and in second place, they have
>spawned again, in the same place, so I left the fry's I hadn't caught
>and took of.
Dwarfs can be such a pain... won't spawn when you want them to... and the
minute you decide you would rather they not spawn for a while, they
spawn... very contrary little beasts...

>    This morning I've seen the fry's I've left in the tank swimming
>round the eggs, and eating the unfertilized ones, their parents allowed
>them. Any idea? There is (I think) food enough for the fry's, so I don't
>think it would be any kind of supplement food like in Chana orientalis,
>besides, there are a lot of (apparently) fertilized eggs.
This is also something I have never heard of... but, if they are eating
only the unfertilized/fungused eggs under the "supervision" of the parents,
I don't see how it can be harmful... maybe they are being "taught" some
breeding behavior -- I have frequently heard that dwarfs that are raised
for at least a few weeks (usually longer) by their parents will display
better breeding behavior when they subsequently breed than will
artificially raised dwarfs.  Perhaps some behaviors are learned.


Just my thoughts,

Cliff



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