My New Baby Peacocks

[JONP]

I attached pics of the mother who is believed to be an Albino Peacock. The father we think is my German Red Peacock. He is extremely aggressive and dominates territory immediately after all tank rearrangements. My Albino stopped eating for a minimum of three weeks and therefore we are certain she is the mother.

She is in the first pic I've attached. The father is in the second pic guarding his home. I have also included a photo of one of the babies who lives at the base of the rock he is on. He is one of four I left behind by accident. My wife and I moved all the babies we thought from my 75, unfortunately we left (4) of them behind. We moved (5) others to a holding tank along with my yellow lab who was nearly killed after the rock rearrangement! Now we are in limbo anxiously awaiting the outcome. We hope everyone lives and no one is eaten or killed.

Please offer any thoughts on the babies, we certainly could be wrong with who we think the parents are...

I have included some of my posts to give you more pics and or information if you are so inclined.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103379

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113858

Thanks,

 

[straitjacketstar]

I don't see any female albino peacocks in your pictures. However, I do see some red zebras of questionable purity.
Also, your fry do not look like Aulonocara fry, they look like mbuna fry and some of them look very much like yellow labs. I would not be surprised if that batch came from the zebra and yellow lab.

 

[tydus]

If you're talking about the albino fish with the clown loach in front of it, its certainly not a peacock but an mbuna instead. And the pics of the babies are throwing me off a bit, they don't appear to be full aulonocara.

 

[tydus]

And yes, straitjacketstar could be right. It may in fact be a hybrid between mbunas. From observing the fry, it doesn't look much like aulonocara, but it could still be possible that the peacock is the father.

 

[ikevi]

Sorry to say but the female isn't a peacock. If it is the white fish that you can't see the head on the firs picture, I think that is an albino Pseudotropheus socolofi.

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1786

And the babies look to me like they have yellow lab in them so I wouldn't be surprised if they are a hybrid between the yellow lab and the albino Pseudotropheus socolofi. (If that is what the female is... as I see suggested, and I think might be correct the female might have in fact been a zebra of some sort.)

 

[JONP]

I new I could count on some good feedback. Unfortunately for me, my wife is laughing at me right now...she said it was the albino and the yellow lab all along. Ikevi thank you for the link, that is the same fish I have. Thank you Tydus and Straitjacketstar for you input.

I'm fairly new at this and these are our first batch of fry...but I'm learning. Will these guys survive in the large tank?

Thanks,

 

[ikevi]

Likely some will survive, and some will be eaten. I would just leave them in the tank.

 

[straitjacketstar]

And yes, straitjacketstar could be right. It may in fact be a hybrid between mbunas. From observing the fry, it doesn't look much like aulonocara, but it could still be possible that the peacock is the father.

Considering that the fry have color (yellow) I would assume them to have at least some yellow lab in them, which would exclude the peacock as the father.
Aulonocara fry are drab silver/gray/brown, just like the females, no matter what the color variety, unless they're albino in which case both parents must have the albino genes to be expressed in any of the fry.

 

[JONP]

Since I have taken some of them out already, shall I put them back into the large tank? If I do that I'll increase the rock count for a safer environment and then reintroduce everyone at once.

Do you all recommend that or just keep them seperated. I'm also getting rid of (3) fish this week. My (2) silver skats and also my less dominant male peacock. That will also decrease the tension.

Thanks,

 

[ikevi]

No don't put more in. If you put them in they will likely be snatched the instant they hit the water. (IE the less you draw attention to them the better.) More rocks wouldn't hurt, but well if they are living in there now some will make it. If you try to catch them all now often they get scared and chomped up by the other fish while netting. The reason I said leave them is that I figure the amount of stress/chance of getting eaten while catching them is about the same risk as them getting eaten while they are in the tank. (IE since they haven't all been eaten already they likely will keep on surviving.)