Range of difficulty with taeniatus locality types

[killiguy]

Ive been concidering breeding some taeniatus variants and wonder which ones are tough and best avoided.Ive spawned keinke which was no great challenge.Moliwe is one that I may have access to.
Are taeniatus fry best left with the parents like Apistos to react to maternal signalling??

 

[tjudy]

IME... Moliwe is the easiest, especially over multiple generations. Just behind them are the spotted southern Cameroon varieties (Kienke, Dehane, etc...). The southern Cameroon varieties without spots (Lobe, Nyete, etc...) have smaller spawns more infrequently than the spotted forms. The Nigerian forms are either very inbred and have associated problems, and wild fish are infrequent breeders, but the number of fry is usually 25+. The hardest for me has always been Wouri. Small, infrequent spawns from parents that are aggressive to each other and prone to infection and problems associated with poor water quality.

I like to leave fry with parents at least a week, then I pull about a dozen or so to raise out. If I have plenty of fry or juveniles from other spawns I do not remove the fry.

 

[wethumbs]

I have to agree with Ted on the Wouri. I have difficulty keeping them pass a couple of generations. Removing the fry was also problematic for me, as the parents would turn aggressive to each other in their absence.

 

[killiguy]

Is the fairly common "Nigerian red"one of the inbred forms you mentioned??

 

[wethumbs]

Nigerian red is a tank strain from Europe. From what I have seen, it is a fairly productive strain with spawn size up to 100+.