Noodles

That's hilarious !!!!! Those kids remember funny things.

And yes your boy has a very good point, you have some great looking plecos

What else swims in the tank?

How are your fry doing now that they're in a smaller tank, and how many fry did your pair produce? My kids love watching all the fry going crazy for the microworms (thanks Vince)with me.

There are still quite a few, I'm guessing somewhere around 70?? They're really hard to count. I'll do that when they get a bit bigger when I'm putting them in a larger tank. This batch has been spoken for, but they just spawned again.....Today !!!!

Synodontis luccipinnis would be a great addition!!! When they're in groups, they are constantly cruising around and fun to watch!!

I'm loving the L240!! And your goldie looks pretty awsome as well!!

Good looking tanks and fish as usual Vince!

That would be no problem, as long as you're talking about a 18 gallon aquarium.

Well the male wasn't very good at doing his part as he had eaten the eggs in his mouth by the next day but the female is doing well!! Last night was the first time that i saw some fry out of her mouth, the egg sacks are gone now. Does anyone have experience with feeding the fry at this stage? As soon as I come into the room where they are all the fry are sucked back into the mothers mouth. If I crush some flake will the mother suck some up for the fry?

What type of Geo are they?

They are Geophagus Altifrons Tocantins (from fairdeal)

just took some quick pics, tried not to bother them too much.

this is the female

and this is the male

The female has a large mouthful and the male has a medium mouthfull !!! This is my first time experiencing bi parental mouthbrooding (I believe it's called ovophilous).

My geophagus have spawned for the first time (for me) today!!! I had the privilege of watching the spawn for a little while!!

I'll post some pics of the parents soon!

Sheldon

nice shots, i really like your goby!!

Welcome to AA :welcome:

The natural prey of the cyphotilapia in Lake Tanganyika are cyprichromis so I would only keep one of those. I would only keep one type of tropheus and they would do best in a group of at least 10. As well they are quite active and sometimes frontosas don't like that much activity, it might stress them. I'm assuming they will be going into the 125 gallon tank.

I would go either with:

1 - Cyphotilapia Gibberosa species tank

2 - Tropheus species tank

or

3 - Cyprichromis, Neolamprologus leleupi and Altolamprologus compressiceps community

I totally agree.

If you are using a 125 you would want a larger group of trophs and you could probably get away with two larger groups, 15 - 20 of the dubosi maswa and 15 - 20 Moori Kazumba. The trophs do better if they're packed in there and the frontosa like to have their own space, you could start with 12 frontosa but in the end once they've grown a bit and you get rid of some males Ideally you'd end up with 6- 8 frontosa.

Welcome to AA. Absolutely stunning rays!!! :drool:

Give Bow Valley Aquariums a call.

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Calgary, AB

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Sounds like you caught the bug!!! Welcome to AA :welcome:

got home from work today and she looks completely normal again!? :thumbs:

Just got home and noticed that one of my female gold head compressiceps has a white stringy thing about an inch long hanging out of her "vent", and that her vent is red and swollen. I know of frontosa's getting "eggbound" and showing similar symptoms but i've never seen or heard of this. Any Idea what this could be? (She laid eggs 2.5 weeks ago)

Thanks,

Sheldon

I saw this the other day, hope it helps. If i were to guess I'd say they're both female.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=415540

I like the aquascaping!! and the fish of course, they look great :thumbs:

If you put a couple malasian trumpet snails in the tank, they'll help stir up the sand.

That is one BIG Boy!! good looking group!