MULTI-GENERATIONAL OR COLONIZING FISH

["Bill Hickman" <hickmanb@accessus.net>]

Just a quick note on the issue of, multi-generational groups.  I've been
told that the Apisto. eunotus (excuse my spelling) will in fact allow multi
generations.  That is the only non-African that I know about, but there may
well be others.  What do you Fisheads know about other, multi-generational
or colonizing fish.

Bill Hickman
Mascoutah, IL.

-----Original Message-----
From: alex pastor <alexp@idirect.com>
To: apisto@pudge.listbox.com <apisto@pudge.listbox.com>
Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: well if its not one its the other... A. uaupesi "red-wedge"


>How big is your 'community ' tank?  Sometimes fish will spawn, and then eat
>their fry at the wriggler stage because they don't feel secure enough to
>raise the kids.  All kinds of animals will do this.  They don't want to
>waste their energy and food stores on what they 'feel' is a hopeless
>situation.  It sounds like your fish have spawned for sure.  Do you have
>anywhere else that you can put their competitors?  Once the female has her
>fry out free-swimming you may even have to pull the male.  Sometimes, and
it
>doesn't even depend on the size of the tank, the female will get ready to
>spawn again when the fry are only about four weeks old.  Then, before you
>get a chance to do anything about it, she'll eat the fry and spawn again.
>If you take the male out, she'll usually look after them for a couple more
>weeks than usual, but because she does not have a male to spawn with again,
>she won't perceive the fry as competitors to her next batch, and she'll
>leave them alone.
>
>It's really sad to see females gobble up their fry.  They are so used to
>coming up to her for safety under usual circimstances, they know no better,
>and get eaten.
>
>The only fish that I know of who stay in multi-generational groups are
Kribs
>and Lamp. brichardi. With the brichardis, the older brothers and sisters
>even look after the younger ones.  There may be a few other African species
>that do the same thing also, but definitely not Apistos.
>
>Some people like to keep dither fish around so that at least for a while
the
>male is busy defending the territory against relatively innocuous fish.  I
>have found however,  that even supposed non-threatening fish like Neon
>Tetras or White Cloud Mountain fish will take advantage of any fry that
>strays a few inches from it's mother.  For this reason, I  keep moms alone
>with their fry if I want to have a large survival rate.
>
>g. kadar
>
>
>
>
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