Crenicichla Notophthalmus have bred for me

[Heyguy74]

What's the pH and hardness at? I never got any breeding behavior with mine, but I kept them in our tap water which here is about 6.7 pH and pretty soft. I never got them into their own tank where I could do up a proper blackwater tank like yours. Still darn impressive, they are the hardest dwarves to bred water wise.

My tap water is also pretty soft. PH at 7.2 KH 2 GH 3 The ph in the tank is at 5.5. There is no hardness. I'm lucky enough to have a lot of oak trees in my backyard. All the wood except one piece in the tank, came from my backyard. I put DI water into a 55 gallon drum. In the drum I have a large piece of oak, oak leaves and a bag of peat moss. The water ages for a few days. That's the water I use. In addition to the oak in the tank , there are oak leaves and peat moss in the filter.

I fed them very well. Lots of bloodworms, Mysis shrimp, freeze dried krill and some live guppies. They wont eat pellets or flakes. Hopefully I'll get them to eat them soon.

 

[Heyguy74]

Beautiful awesomeness of unparalleled wowfactoryness!!! LOVE IT!!! That is top notch spectacular, congrats!!!

Are they solo in the tank? Gotta love the tannin natural look. Keep it up!!

Thanks. I started them by themselves in there. She laid eggs in November. But they never hatched. Afterward, the male was very nasty toward her. She was always in a corner or hiding behind something. I put in 7 2" Silver dollars about a month or so ago and the next day they were hanging together. His attention turned towards the silver dollars and he didn't bother her at all. I removed them yesterday after the par stated moving the fry from the cave the spawned in.

 

[Peanut_Power]

Thats some serious dedication. Thats the proper way to keep them though, congrats on taking it to the max.

 

[Zeke]

You done good my friend!

 

[Lucas Fontenele]

Simple beautiful bro. I wish I would buy amazon pikes, principally the dwarf ones!

Congratulations and good luck.

 

[abarilot]

That is a huge accomplishment!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Heyguy74]

Thanks everyone. The fry are growing well. I'll try to get some pictures.

 

[daphilster08]

No way I can't believe this.. C. Notophthalmus are on the top of my fish list right now. I have been emailing people all over the country. Can you PM me where you bought them from?

Huge accomplishment my friend. You do the exact same system I do for my apistos and that's what I was planning on doing if I got notophthalmus.

 

[Heyguy74]

No way I can't believe this.. C. Notophthalmus are on the top of my fish list right now. I have been emailing people all over the country. Can you PM me where you bought them from?

Huge accomplishment my friend. You do the exact same system I do for my apistos and that's what I was planning on doing if I got notophthalmus.

Thanks. I sent you a PM.

 

[Heyguy74]

Here are some new pictures. The fry are growing fast.