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So i did locate their cave and it does seem that most of the time they keep the frys in the cave though it is unclear to me how they feed the frys if they are deep underground in a cave all the time.
My e. Lucanusi spawned last week at some point - i never saw the female disappear for a while as you normally do with dwarf cichild - just one day i started seeing a few frys.
Here is the part that is driving me crazy - i rarely see the fry - usually both parents are up front begging for food...
I'm too lazy to raise live food for my critters - though i do feed bbs to frys.
The one thing i would ask of your diet - are you reproducing the reds they get in nature ;)
Last one for a few weeks though you can see how fast the frys have grown. While i try to inject the bbs low where they are it seems i do a crappy job so the frys go wild chasing after bbs:
During this time the parents - mostly the male will dive bomb the tetra but it probably isn't necessary...
Some pictures for your viewing pleasure - these guys are around a week old free swimming:
The parents trying to calm them down after injecting some bbs.
The 'frys' chasing bbs - the shocking thing to me is that the orange tetra didn't try to eat them - they even bumped into a few - i don't...
I just took a look a tom's page and this is the ones that he classified as trifs - i believe it includes all three forms:
https://www.tomc.no/fish.aspx?fishIndexID=1806&gruppeID=5
Well - i was 'talking' to someone abut this on another forum and he said that most classified erythrurus as a form of trifs and it was only recently that glasser started to reclassify them as erythrurus again - so in that sense they might all be triffs despite the colour differences.
I suspect not - the pictures on glasser website seems quite different. This is glasser picture:
(link to glasser which compares these to triffs:
https://www.aquariumglaser.de/en/fisharchive/nannostomus-erythrurus-2/
And my picture from the previous page:
I also no longer think they are...
Well I really would prefer the D39's.
They are kind of amusing in several ways - first the frys are quite large and free swimming already. I *think* they hatched a week ago and went 'free swimming' only 4 days ago but they can already swim to near the top of the aquarium. The orange tetra i...
They sent me this picture of a young male (approx 2 inches); which seems to be a different ?form? ?species? then the ones i have.
This one look really close to the ones on Tom's website:
https://www.tomc.no/fish.aspx?fishIndexID=2657&gruppeID=1
And this is not a great picture of my male...
Oh well - either she didn't spawn or the spawn was not successful. As a consolation prize (pretty weak consolation if you ask me):
Hum. Hopefully the d39 will spawn eventually.
Plants can be annoying:
front and back - the aquarium is quite dark because the top is covered with frogbits despite the strong light. I have no clue who is in there anymore i can't see a bloody thing.
Once along time ago in another life it looked a little like this:
One of these years i...