A.hauscar

[Hassles]

A.huascar

I expect to be acquiring a couple of pairs of A.huascar at the end of the week. As such I thought I would ask here if anyone has any personal experiernces with this specie and what thier experiences were with regards to maintaining and breeding.

thanks

 

[Hassles]

A.huascar Fry Emerge

With nothing to guide me but the Cichlid Atlas I have managed to breed A.huascar.

The tank measures 750 x 400 x 300 high. A fine white sand substrate is employed with a few pieces of driftwood (no longer leeching tannis), a few rocks, a pair of pencilfish for dithers, some water-sprite and an annubia. Filtration via 1 Aqua-Genie (http://www.aquagenie.com.au/) and 1 sponge-filter, a water pump for circulation and a single 39 watt day-light tube over-head 11 hours per day. Oh, I guess I should mention two small ceramic D caves.

Water Parameters:

PH 4.75 Approx.
KH <10mgL
GH 5.6 - I would prefer it to be less than this so I need some fine-tuning.
Temp: 25 degrees

Fry appear energetic, school around 70. microworms are being fed. mother defensive but escorting the school on extensive tours of one end of the tank. 2nd female at the other end.

http://www.discusforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20164

 

[bigbird]

well done. post some photos. cheers jk :biggrin:

 

[Hassles]

I do not have a Photobucket account. I have however posted some images at the link listed. Unfortuneately only registered users can see uploaded images.

 

[blueblue]

Huascar is nothing difficult to breed while they can be truly productive in the sense that they easily can breed with nearly a hundred fry (i bred this species a few years ago).. if you takw away the frym, the pair can breed very frequently, enjoy.