 Basics | ||||
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| Overview | The first spawn was on Thursday 10th of February 2011. The breeding group consisted of 2 males and 4 females. The smallest male was at least 69mm SL and the smallest female was at least 72mm SL. The youngest adult was approximately 18 months old. The individuals were obtained from Local breeder. | |||
| Feeding |
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| Water Parameters (at time of spawning) | ||||
| pH | 8.20 to 8.40 | |||
| Temperature | 26.0°C to 27.0°C | |||
| Current | Medium | |||
| Other Water Params | Hard water due to lake tanganyika set up, water changes 40% every 2-3 weeks. | |||
| Aquarium | ||||
| Dimensions | The aquarium dimensions were 1219mm x 305mm x 305mm (48" x 12" x 12") all Length x Width x Height. | |||
| Furniture | Tank was set up with larger size cobble stones as a base structure for the lamprologians in the tank. There were 4 caves built by terracotta pot bases turned upside down and small cave enterences cut into them. | |||
| Filtration | Twin biowheel 350 | |||
| Lighting | Standard lighting | |||
| Heating | 150 watt used to keep temp around 79 degrees | |||
| Breeding | ||||
| Behaviour | I noticed the females being receptive of the males. One night I noticed a plump female and male sharing a cave. The next morning I had noticed a change in her size. I also noticed some scratches on both fishes tail, might be part of the breeding process ( I have observed them biting eachother's tails several times, they only bite the tail of the opposite sex and only of the other from the pair (male would bite his female, but not the others).) They both actively guarded the cave from their tank mates. For my tank, they usually bred about 2 days after a large water change. | |||
| Segregation | Kept in with parents until about 1" TL, then moved out to their own grow out tank. While in with the parents, they had the chance to eat lamprologus fry and would regularly see them eating them. At night, the cichlid fry would just sit on the bottom and the little tanganyikan hoovers would just suck them up. | |||
| Fry sizes | 7 days: 0mm 14 days: 0mm 21 days: 0mm | |||
| Juvenile sizes | 1 month: 0mm 3 months: 25mm 6 months: 62mm | |||
| Fry and juvenile feeding | They would regularly get fed live brine shrimp, ken's brine shrimp flake, fry from lamprologians, freeze dried mysis and frozen mysis | |||
