Brichardi babies, finally!

[Lotus]

Our brichardis finally had another set of fry, after about 18 months of not being sucessful.

We moved them into a 55g about 16 or 18 months ago, but I think the snails were eating all the eggs. Last week, after a large trim (for an auction) I discovered a whole bunch of brichardi fry. They're such little cuties.

I doubt I'll be able to get pics for a while.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

Nice congrats lotus, always good to see a large family group of africans.

 

[Orion]

Oh lordy! Your in for it now!

I had a problem with snails eating brichardi eggs before. For some reason, the smaller species of snails don't seem to show up on the parents danger radar.

 

[Lotus]

The tank has been a breeding/plant growout tank for a while. It doesn't get a whole lot of attention. We added three zebra loaches a few months ago to help with the snails. I'm trying to remove at least some of the snails from there.

In the past, I've seen brichardis moving snails away from their breeding site. Maybe the parents finally worked out how to do that.