Amazing Cichlid parental care

[Ruck Fules]

Please share your thoughts/experiences.

Here are some pictures I took. The female rio mag is in breeding dress as well.


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[darth pike]

Did the other pair actively try to bring the few over with their fin movements, calling to them as it were?

 

[Ruck Fules]

Did the other pair actively try to bring the few over with their fin movements, calling to them as it were?

The female rio mag did. She even took out all the sand for the fry to pass through


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[FlatFishLeo]

Wow! How you gonna sort them?


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[Ruck Fules]

My rio mag pair does not have fry so there's no problem sorting fry out.


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[tiger15]

Timing is critical for the other pair to see the fry as food or mistaken them their own fry. When the other pair has put on their breeding dress, the hormone has already pumped up, and their parental instinct has taken over.

It happened with mammal too, which is smarter than fish. I watched National Geo the other day. A lone African wild dog, whose pack members have all died off from desease, was so eager to start her own pack by adoping puppies from a jackel familty. She and Jackel parents jointly protected the Jackel puppies, and she even regurgitate food to feed the Jackel puppies who greeted her with joy. You have to see to believe it.

 

[mrmann]

Interesting to see your gorillus male showing female breeding coloration..never seen a male that lightly colored.

 

[Ruck Fules]

Interesting to see your gorillus male showing female breeding coloration..never seen a male that lightly colored.

It even has the black fins


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[BlesOne]

It even has the black fins


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So mrmann has a female that displays mostly male coloration and you have male that colors up like female??? That's interesting.


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[Ruck Fules]

Here are some before and during breeding pictures:

1st is female black
2nd is male black
3rd is female blue
4th is male blue



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