Cyathopharynx Foai Kachese in 500 gallon

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Picked up a group of 5 Cyatho Foai Kachese yesterday and within about 4 hours were digging pits and displaying :) Also got a trio of "Ophthalmotilapia ventralis mpimbwe Silver Streak" but the male is still being timid so I'll try and capture him once he livens up a bit!

[video=youtube;OJSgZO7SFi0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJSgZO7SFi0[/video]
 
This is right after I finished the tank, so the fish are smaller and the Foai aren't in there, but at least you can see the whole tank.

[video=youtube;XybLHhiOujg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XybLHhiOujg[/video]
 
Both the ventralis and foai have now spawned, guess it's time to set up a smaller tank for some babies. Had no plans on raising any fish as this was meant to be just a show tank but hard to pass up raising a few of these :)
 
I love the setup and the choice of fish. I see you have a mix of tang and malawii, which i have going on. I went wiht the ventralis but due two user error lost 3/4. Does the foai male stay colored up or only when he is trying to breed? My poor single ventralis doesnt color up at all in my 125. I can't believe no one commented on your thread. They must not my popular on this website.
 
Thanks guys :) The larger Foai male stays colored up, not as vivid as when hes spawning but still very very nice. The Ventralis is a very very fun fish to watch - he's small with an attitude the size of a shark he never lets up, always chasing displaying just always something with him. I'll try to get an updated video with him going nuts as well.
 
Robulus153 said:
How are the babies doing? I wonder what they look like small....
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My initial thought of not gonna raise any babies stands, it didn't take long to figure out trying to catch a female out of a 500 gallon tank full of rock was going to be literally impossible without tearing the rock out each time! I wish I could but there's a good 3-400 lbs of rock in there and that's just way to much work for some fry :/ For all I know though some of these fry are surviving down in the rock. I now have the yellow labs, vics, strigatus, faoi, ventralis, peacocks and phenochilus sp. tanzania all spawning now so that has to be a lot of babies and some are bound to survive I hope!
 
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