Madagascar fish are frisky today ;)

[sidguppy]

while reading about The Fitz & The Fool I spied these 2 going at it

grabbed my cam, stayed some distance from the tank (hence the filthy window) and this is the result:















Paretroplus maculatus spawning
this is an endagered cichlidspecies from Madagascar.

[Richard B]

Top stuff Sid

[Birger]

Nice!!!

Is that the amount of eggs they stopped with or were there more eggs?

Is this their first spawn?

Birger

[exasperatus2002]

Congratulations on the spawn. Any updates?

[andywoolloo]

endangered species? great job! for them and you!

[sidguppy]

spawn was gone the next day

at the moment I'm using meds in that tank; the paratilapia kept developing skinlesions and I finally got fed up with medications that didn't work

took em to a fish doctor (!), and there was a ciliate surprise found when we scraped a bit of mucus and put it on 100x enlargement microscope....

the catfish aren't happy at all with the heavy meds, especially the clarias doesn't like it at all.
I was in for a rough night; the first dose was saturday, the next sunday and after seeing my fish all gone woozy and torpid I skipped the night, staying next to the tank with hose ready to do emergency waterchanges when needed.

even the paretroplus sat on the sand....like they were xenotilapia's or something.

I was so tired on monday (slept about 1 hour) that I had to take the car to work (my old rickety toyota wich is a carmageddon hazard all by itself); driving my old yamaha maxim would have been suicide, I was that done for.

now all fishes are slowly getting better and I can see visible healing on the paratilapia's.

if everything goes as planned and all the fish (both Madagascar cichlids and mixed catfishes) get disease free I can work towards the housemoving in july and august

after that I'll definitely set up a decent breeding tank for these! ;)

ps Dave Rinaldo, thanks for the link; the menarambo are pretty fish indeed.
unfortunately very hard to get on this side of the pond, our list of available Madagascarian species is much shorter than the list being bred in the US.

shipping from the US is too expensive at the moment, but we (several people from France, me and a few more) are working on something in the near future.

[fischkringli]

Congrats for the spawning and the healthness of the Cichlids. Respect!