Pel. taen. 'lobe' fry

[tjudy]

Chalk one up for RO. I have lobe fry, a nice large spawn. They had to have spawned within a day or two of my dropping the hardness below 100 mS using RO.... There are at least 30 fry!

 

[farm41]

Good news Ted, gotta be the RO.

Are we going to have a tank problem now?

 

[tjudy]

I have too many fish..... nice problem to have. I have a small group of Pel. sub. matadi that are growing out, so there is no room for the lob fry. I have new fish arriving from Neil tomorrow, so they cannot go into those predpped tanks.

This is the lobes' first spawn. I think that I will let them raise it out and try to cement the bond a bit.

 

[farm41]

Too many fish? :roll: :roll: you just don't have enough tanks

 

[tjudy]

We intend to move this Summer. No house will be bought without the space for a legitimate fishroom.. Until then, 12 tanks will have to do.

 

[farm41]

I see you have your priorities in the right order. 8)

 

[Neil]

Ted,
Cogratulations! That is one great taeniatus. I have found that they almost always do a good job raising their fry, so you should be OK there. But...

I see you have your priorities in the right order.

Yes, and there is that little space right there on top of the TV stand just aching for a tank. Come on, your wife won't mind 8O . It will get her more used to the merits of a seperate fishroom in the new house!!

 

[tjudy]

I can probably fit a 55 in the living room. I would probably have to sleep on the couch though.... RIGHT NEXT TO MY NEW TANK!!!! :lol:

 

[farm41]

At least you would have a good view of the new tank. :lol:

 

[tjudy]

When my wife and I were first married, aquariums and fish breeding were my main source of income. We had a 900 square foot apartment. The living room portion had a rack of nine 40 breeders, and the bedroom (the only bedroom), had a rack of thirty 10's faced on end....

She said.. "Never again will I live in a fishroom..."....


So I have to be careful.... :wink:

 

[Randall]

Ichthyomania and Relationships

Dear Ted,

After my girlfriend opened the fridge and saw that the live black worms had crawled out of their trough and spilled onto her hermetically sealed tofu again, she told me that she wanted a divorce, and we aren't even married. Faced with such an ultimatum, I quickly took my old junior sized college fridge out of mothballs and set it up in the basement. Today, she records my frys' growth rates for me.

The moral of the story is: Love is love, and Fish are fish, but if one can love one's fish and have one's love love ones fish, contest not...love is love.

Having expressed that, I don't think the Carpe Diem school of poets have much to worry about, postumously.

Go figure.

Randall

 

[tjudy]

I continuously tell my wife, 'fish came first, and I already gave up golf."

 

[tjudy]

Five days the the pair are still doing an excellent job parenting. I do not see the 'flock' very often, since that tank is on a reverse lighting schedule. It serves as a night light for my son, so the lights come on at 7 PM and go off at 6 AM. When I go look during the day Mom has the babies holed up in the pile of driftwood somewhere. I snuck in this morning around 5 AM and they were out and about and growing.

Mom is not as dark as some of the pictures of lobe females would suggest. She is very purple. In fact, she looks quite a lot like my 'nyete' female, but the 'nyete' has a black spot on the soft dorsal rays.

 

[tjudy]

Here is a picture of this P. t. 'lobe' pair....

http://www.cichlidae.info/gallery/Pelvicachromis/taeniatus-lobe.html