Fry Distribution

[Azedenkae]

So I have a 2ft tank I've set up for my american cichlid fries, and there's like a hundred or so of them in there. They just learnt to swim this morning and by now in the evening they're swimming around quite happily.

What I notice though, is that some of them seem to prefer to cluster together - even before being able to actually swim, whilst there are a number that is quite happy exploring around by themselves.

Is this early indications of future personalities, or is this just sorta your average cichlid behaviour?

 

[rwellbaum]

i think its a safety in numbers kind of thing

 

[Azedenkae]

Mhm, I was thinking it's probably something like that. Just find it funny that some would swim off far, far, far away without seemingly a care about being all alone and all that.

 

[B_IN_SD]

The only fry I have seen stick together are these http://images.search.yahoo.com/imag...b=13eckof6a&sigi=11mptmmsf&.crumb=vQX6dkbmn1T every other species I have bred eventually scatter in the tank.

 

[virgil2090]

i think in a few days they will all be moving around,it may be that the others are slightly advanced(hatched first) so they developed quicker

 

[Azedenkae]

Yeah that's what happened, when they became completely free swimming they still tried to attach themselves to each other. XD But now they're all swimming separately. They still school together though (with the odd few swimming by themselves), but that's natural.