Rams are gone

My two german rams spawned last night, after only 3 days in there new home. But alas, the eggs did not survive until morning and both fish died by the following afternoon. I am not quite sure what happened...

Take two

Well after a short break in my fishroom. I had to finish up my Ph.D. dissertation and it accounted for all of my free time. I am happy to report that my efforts to establish an Apistogramma breeding program are underway.

I still have a F1 femal cacatoides that was hatched in my tank a few years ago. I purchased a nice male from the LFS and have them together in a 29gal with hatchet fish as dithers. Additionally, I have two german blue rams (Microgeophagus ramirezi) that I am hoping to breed.

Soon I will be establishing a tank with appistogramma borelli and perhaps some tiger shrimp.

Jeremy

New babies!

This morning, a gaggle of new fry were out swimming with the P. pulcher mother and father today. There appears to be about 50 or so new ones out there, which seems good for their first spawn. One of the fry, know known as "fast Eddy" was swimming above the rest and doing some cool loops when the father sucked him out of his mouth. One would have thought that the dad was hungry, but in fact he swam back to the others and spit the little guy out. Fast Eddy was in no way harmed by the ordeal. It is just another reminder that these fish make awesome parents. I will post pick as soon as I can take a decent one.

Well...It happened!

My Pel. Pulchers went ahead and bred again! I suppose that they cannot wait until they move into their new home. At this point, I will have to keep them in their 10gal and see what happens with the eggs. It has been about 2 days now and all of the eggs appear to still be in tact. I will let the parents look after the fry for a couple of weeks and then I will pull the parents into their bigger tank and allow the fry to grow in the 10 gal.

I will post pics as soon as I see fry swimming.

Update on progress: The Endlers are doing great. Both females are getting close to dropping their fry. The male is really coloring up nicely. I will post pictures soon.

The Pel. pulchers seem content. I need to set up their new home soon. Hopefully they will not breed again before I move them. Their new tank should be ready by the end of the week.

Overall, the fishroom is doing well. I need to get a couple more tanks running, yet more stands and workspace is need to accomplish this. I will document the building of this for you all to see.

Endlers Livebearers

I recently collect a nice trio of Endlers from an LFS in Columbus, Ohio. The male is particularly nice and currently the females are getting ready to drop a few fry. Right now these little beauties are in a 5 gal tank with a sponge filter. I have a 10 gal that I plan on using for the fry. I plan on posting some more pics soon.

P. pulchers are doing well in their new tank. I will be moving them shortly to a permanent 20gal tank. I have decided against putting them in the 75gal African tank for now based on some sound advise I recived from Ted Judy www.tedsfishroom.com The pair spawned this weekend. Unfortunately the female ate the eggs. This is pretty common for a first attempt. I am not concerned as the pair seem to have bonded nicely.