Please can someone identify... TIA
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It takes them about 3 years to reach max size (3 ft long) so a pool or1000 tank is probably minimum.
And similar to the life cycle of salmon, at maturity they spawn, and after raising fry, usually die
And similar to the life cycle of salmon, at maturity they spawn, and after raising fry, usually die
Maybe they do in the lake. I had also heard this and asked somebody who had a breeding pair in the beginning of the year about their condition.
They are still totally healthy and eating good.
This may be true, the effort to protect fry in the lake prevents the parents from eating, leading loss of robustness, and to their death, but in aquariums that is almost never the case.
Even happens with small cichlids.
In nature Andinoacara coerleopunctatus parents are said "not" to eat while protecting their spawn, and in the end may succumb from that considerable effort.
Mine are fed, and continue eating, so in all possibility could end up spawning again.
In nature this may be a way of assuring populations are kept in check, and other not so obvious reasons, like the undesirable mutations seen after consecutive spawns in aquarium situations.
I always thought it was funny Boulengerochromis microlepis have the word MICRO does anyone have any pics of full grown ones?
