Stocking Ideas
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Ok. I'm tired. BUT...I have several new fish to show for it.
I didn't count the cyps as he was netting them. I was distracted by everything else in the room. Wow. I don't think I've been to a LFS that has a great of setup as this fishroom was. Back to the cyps, I have at least 12, likley more. No idea on the exact m to f ratio yet. Like I said, I was distracted.
I also picked up 5 Syno. multipuctatus(sp.) AKA KuKu Catfish. Neat little guys. I figured I was there, they were there, I had the money, so make the most of it. He had a NICE wild pair of inkfin calvus, but couldn't quite get those off of him.
I will elaborate more later. As I've mentioned, I'm tired and I have lots of work ahead of me tonight. So far so good!
I didn't count the cyps as he was netting them. I was distracted by everything else in the room. Wow. I don't think I've been to a LFS that has a great of setup as this fishroom was. Back to the cyps, I have at least 12, likley more. No idea on the exact m to f ratio yet. Like I said, I was distracted.
I also picked up 5 Syno. multipuctatus(sp.) AKA KuKu Catfish. Neat little guys. I figured I was there, they were there, I had the money, so make the most of it. He had a NICE wild pair of inkfin calvus, but couldn't quite get those off of him.
I will elaborate more later. As I've mentioned, I'm tired and I have lots of work ahead of me tonight. So far so good!
To say he was just a hobbyist is an injustuce, but yeah, privately ran.
He had well over 100 tanks. The list just goes on and on of what he had. He was mainly keeping Rainbows and Cichilds. He is a member of the Greater Cincinatti Aquarium Society, so that's where I hooked up with him at. Like I said before, you can't go wrong with Local Clubs.
He had several Fronts, and my wife fell in love with those. Also some of the larger julie species. Oh, and a couple of zebra plecs. He said they are on aquabid right now for $100 each if anyone is interested.
The cyps seem to be settling in well into the tank. The Syno. multies are in the bucket now.
He had well over 100 tanks. The list just goes on and on of what he had. He was mainly keeping Rainbows and Cichilds. He is a member of the Greater Cincinatti Aquarium Society, so that's where I hooked up with him at. Like I said before, you can't go wrong with Local Clubs.
He had several Fronts, and my wife fell in love with those. Also some of the larger julie species. Oh, and a couple of zebra plecs.
He said they are on aquabid right now for $100 each if anyone is interested. The cyps seem to be settling in well into the tank. The Syno. multies are in the bucket now.
Haven't got a chance to resize them, so slow internet users be warrned. Just a few sub-par pics of my cyps. Will get some better ones once they settle in some and my camera battery recharges. lol
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**Nevermind about the big pic, I can't get the full size verson to show up, so no worries about size.
Will get some better ones once they settle in some and my camera battery recharges. lolPic1
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**Nevermind about the big pic, I can't get the full size verson to show up, so no worries about size.
Well, first night in a new home and different water would give anyone a 'worried' look. But this morning all are doing great and I swear out of the corner of my eye I saw a male or two flashing. But never when I would watch them of course. lol
They are Cyprichromis leptosoma 'Utinta'. I can't swear to this because I have no experince with them, but this is what the breeder said, so I stand by this 100%. He had a couple of the breeding females holding. Such a neat sight. The breeders may have been just shy of 4in.
I may have some better pics to post this morning. I'm getting settled in and with a new laptop, so it may take me a little bit to get them up, but they are comming.
But this morning all are doing great and I swear out of the corner of my eye I saw a male or two flashing. But never when I would watch them of course. lolThey are Cyprichromis leptosoma 'Utinta'. I can't swear to this because I have no experince with them, but this is what the breeder said, so I stand by this 100%. He had a couple of the breeding females holding. Such a neat sight. The breeders may have been just shy of 4in.
I may have some better pics to post this morning. I'm getting settled in and with a new laptop, so it may take me a little bit to get them up, but they are comming.
Thanks phooey. Give me just a few minutes and I'm going to put up a new thread with much better pictures. You should enjoy them.
I gave $10 each for the synos. They are F1's if that matters. The few I've seen for sale on the internet have always been WC's, and expensive. So when he said $10 each, I jumped all over it. I got to see the wild breeding parents of these. He uses peacocks for host's, and he was telling me that after a few spawns with the synos, that they learn what they do and stay away from them. But after a few regular spawns without the cats present, they forgot about the catfish and get duped agian!
Another interesting fact I was reading about these last night, is that they are not always brood parasites. Apparently Tanganyikan's have developed a 'genetic memory' of this fish, and in captivity will not give the catfish a chance to swap eggs. So it is thought that because of this nature of the Tanganyikan's, and the population of the cat in the wild that they must also breed by other meens.
I gave $10 each for the synos. They are F1's if that matters. The few I've seen for sale on the internet have always been WC's, and expensive. So when he said $10 each, I jumped all over it. I got to see the wild breeding parents of these. He uses peacocks for host's, and he was telling me that after a few spawns with the synos, that they learn what they do and stay away from them. But after a few regular spawns without the cats present, they forgot about the catfish and get duped agian!
Another interesting fact I was reading about these last night, is that they are not always brood parasites. Apparently Tanganyikan's have developed a 'genetic memory' of this fish, and in captivity will not give the catfish a chance to swap eggs. So it is thought that because of this nature of the Tanganyikan's, and the population of the cat in the wild that they must also breed by other meens.
Yeah, thats what I thought too. I would have liked to have gotten a few more, but my total for fish was already $130, so I'm happy with what I have and the wife is too, so its all good.
I'm not real sure on that. I know that the catfish develop much quicker than their cichlid counterparts, and because of this eat the unhatched cichlid eggs and young fry. All this while still in the cichlid's mouth. The catfish eggs hatch in about 3 days, so I would say not too long after that do they leave the mouth.
Because we got the catfish, we sat down last night and started watching the 'Jewel of the rift' agian. We didn't get to the part of the catfish yet, but we will tonight. (AWESOME documentary on Lake Tanganyika that comes on NGC every now and again)
I would have liked to have gotten a few more, but my total for fish was already $130, so I'm happy with what I have and the wife is too, so its all good. I'm not real sure on that. I know that the catfish develop much quicker than their cichlid counterparts, and because of this eat the unhatched cichlid eggs and young fry. All this while still in the cichlid's mouth. The catfish eggs hatch in about 3 days, so I would say not too long after that do they leave the mouth.
Because we got the catfish, we sat down last night and started watching the 'Jewel of the rift' agian. We didn't get to the part of the catfish yet, but we will tonight.
(AWESOME documentary on Lake Tanganyika that comes on NGC every now and again)