SuperGuppyGirl Posted August 21, 2016 Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 Looking for more info or advice on these little beauties especially spawning tips. Basically all I could find was : Scientific Name: Crenicara punctulatum Common name: Checkerboard Cichlid, Hercules Cichlid Type: Fresh water fish Family: Cichlidae Origin zone: South America Origin: guyana, brazil, ecuador, peru Max length: 12 cm Temperature: 23 - 25 C pH: 5.5 - 6.5 gH: 5 - 8 Water flow: Medium flowing water Preferred tank level: Bottom-Middle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JORG Posted August 21, 2016 Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 I used to breed these many years ago . Planted tank with Calgary tap water and they would lay their eggs on a broad leaf ...that all I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvision Posted August 21, 2016 Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 They're a lot like rams. Clean water... they may need RO for the eggs to hatch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperGuppyGirl Posted August 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 Thanks gentlemen. Currently running a eheim 2028(seeding) and a eheim 2215, ph normally sits at 6.8, TDS is at 265ppm, but no idea on other numbers as i just overhauled tank for them yesterday. giving it a chance to settle first with the deep clean i did on substrate. Ill be adding some alder cones and IAL shortly, and has several pieces of driftwood, moderately planted (slowly adding as damn things expensive). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biodives Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Oh, and another cool thing about them is that fishbase states they all start out as females and then at 8-12 month of age one of the females can change gender to become the dominant male. You gotta love cichlids, always some surprise. Btw, I am looking for Corydoras hasbrosus. Any idea where I could get some? Bart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperGuppyGirl Posted August 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 Oh, and another cool thing about them is that fishbase states they all start out as females and then at 8-12 month of age one of the females can change gender to become the dominant male. You gotta love cichlids, always some surprise. Btw, I am looking for Corydoras hasbrosus. Any idea where I could get some? Bart Hoping to breed them so I can see the gender change lol As for habrosus, aquarium central has them in as salt and pepper corys for fairly cheap, only place I know of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biodives Posted August 24, 2016 Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 Weird. I visited Aqua Central last weekend and especially asked for C. hasbrosus. He only had the C. pygmeus and didn't seem to know about C. hasbrosus. I should learn the English common names for fishes although that has its own confusion problems. For instance Baensch calls it the Rio Salinas cory. I will get in touch with AC and ask specifically for the salt & pepper cory. Thanks for the tip. Very helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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