Guianacara stergiosi (pics and pics and pics)

[peathenster]

Beautiful fishes and setup!

How big are those guys?

Thanks!

The male is probably 4". Females are smaller... All still growing. I hope they don't out grow the 120 though...

 

[peathenster]

vented all of them last night - turned out one of the "females" and the smaller one were both males! So I actually have a dominant breeding pair, and a subdominant reverse trio.

Separated them into two tanks....see what happens

 

[peathenster]

breeding pair into a 20 (temporary...no bashing please). Left a third one in to make them jealous, and a tiny con to keep them on their toes.

took a couple of days for them to get busy, then bam! Largest batch of eggs!

 

[peathenster]

ta-da

Siphoned out a few dozen...more are hatching as I type ...

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[jgentry]

Very nice Peter.

 

[peathenster]

Thanks. Got about a hundred wigglers out last night. Saw more in the morning but decided to leave them in the tank - see what happens.

These guys are not the best parents. Quite a few wigglers were scattered around and just wriggling on the sand substrate, but the parents didn't seem to be paying much attention...still guarding the eggs.