A breeding pair of Chocolate cichlids glowing in their breeding colors, guarding a newly free-swimming school of fry.
Hypselecara temporalis Pair in Breeding Dress
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Great looking pair of temporalis!
I suspect that your photos don't come near to doing those fish justice.
I suspect that your photos don't come near to doing those fish justice.
Absolutely beautiful. Congratulations on the breeding. I have a new little chocolate, just under 3 inches right now. I love the bugger. He is a wild caught but calm and interactive already... okay he's/she's a little pig and definitely knows I'm the food source. How big are yours? Is this the first spawn? Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the kind words about the fish.
For this pair, the male is around 9" and the female 7". They have bred many times before (at least 10) but I've only kept the fry from one spawn. As impressive as they get when adults, the juveniles are pretty nondescript fish and don't attract much interest. It's rather hard to distribute the fry. Here's a video of the pair.[video=youtube;juC42pYW9ug]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juC42pYW9ug [/video]
No, the photos don't quite live up to the real fish.I suspect that your photos don't come near to doing those fish justice.
For this pair, the male is around 9" and the female 7". They have bred many times before (at least 10) but I've only kept the fry from one spawn. As impressive as they get when adults, the juveniles are pretty nondescript fish and don't attract much interest. It's rather hard to distribute the fry. Here's a video of the pair.[video=youtube;juC42pYW9ug]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juC42pYW9ug [/video]
You mean that you can't even unload them on Spencer?
Do you age your water before water changes? Just curious, as the winter water here in AB is so full of gas that it would peel the slime coat off of my temporalis in sheets.
Do you age your water before water changes? Just curious, as the winter water here in AB is so full of gas that it would peel the slime coat off of my temporalis in sheets.
Beautiful pair! Definitely a species I'd love to keep sometime in the future, when I get off my aggression kick 
Well, I do take most of my fish into Spencer's place but the chocolates move rather slowly, I think they are a highly underrated SA cichlid since most aquarists haven't seen adults, and many might not have the patience to get them to that point. I do my water changes (30-40% per week) straight from the tap. Here in Manitoba, our tap water is derived from a granite bottomed lake in Ontario. Normally the pH and hardness are well within the tolerances of all the cichlids I keep, and the chlorine content is never an issue. Having said that , there is a tendency for the city to over-chlorinate the water supply in late fall/early winter. Got to be a bit more careful then. Thank goodness we don't have chloramine in our water supply (YET!!)
It wasn't a case of pH, or hardness, or even chlorine, it was the amount of gas in the water lines in the winter months.
Same effect on the temporalis, as discus. Only SA or CA fish that I have ever ran into any issues here. Chloramine isn't a problem as long as one uses an appropriate water conditioner to neutralize the chlorine/ammonia bond. Seachem Prime or Safe
do a very good job treating chlormamine treated tap water.
Same effect on the temporalis, as discus. Only SA or CA fish that I have ever ran into any issues here. Chloramine isn't a problem as long as one uses an appropriate water conditioner to neutralize the chlorine/ammonia bond. Seachem Prime or Safe
do a very good job treating chlormamine treated tap water.
Well (embarrassingly)pretty much all my plants are plastic. Most of my fish love veggies and so I've decided not to provide them with an expensive "salad bar". They do the same thing as real ones (give sense of security, define territories, give refuge, provide decoration) and have great longevity. Other than a little water sprite and java moss, they're all artificial. You can see more of them in my avatar