This is a follow up to my previous thread "The Hybrids are Coming" .
There are Mollies about to be consumed...
I had never kept cichlids before retirement, but I had some tank space and someone handed me a dozen assorted Africans in an overstuffed tank. I set them up in a 55 and now 125, and they did manage to breed. The biggest Mbuna, Buttercup,
...and the nicest female, Leeloo, here holding fry:
Here very young:
delivered us 8 assorted and healthy young, which all survive. Some are quite large now.
Nearly as large as mojo the Murderer.
Leeloo has since passed on, and we have also lost Cromwell...
... (who I had purchased) and Voodoo the bumblebee
...(who I miss) to predation & misfortune. We also lost 2 of 3 upside down cats, and my plecos are nipped.
All at the hands of vicious Mbuna hybrids.
I have sequestered Buttercup, the largest to the patio tank with two killer Plecos and a large peacock female. Hmmm...This was the female when young:
But now she is 4x as large, and very dull and dark stripes with almost no blue. The patio tank seems pretty happy.
There are some corydoras and convicts to keep them busy there too but we might have more hybrids in the future.
I will likely feed them to Felix the Oscar though.
some of my fish are getting too big. I'm supposed to dig a pond, but the virus scare has sent my handyman packing. That means I actually have to dig it myownself (!)
Soooo.... It might be an above ground pond/sump/habitat. I'm too busy re-engineering an old car to diddle with digging and plumbing. If I can get something delivered, plug in a pump, and fill it, that would be grand.
Meanwhile I'm breeding so many Dalmatian Mollies that I tossed a dozen maturing specimens in the tank of death, thinking Mojo would chase them and let the little Africans heal up a bit from all the nipping. No way.
Those Mollies congregate at the strainer eating leftovers, while the Africans tend to hide or crowd the inflow, waiting for food.
I see not one nipped Molly in 4 days so far. Unbelievable.
More pics later.
There are Mollies about to be consumed...
I had never kept cichlids before retirement, but I had some tank space and someone handed me a dozen assorted Africans in an overstuffed tank. I set them up in a 55 and now 125, and they did manage to breed. The biggest Mbuna, Buttercup,
...and the nicest female, Leeloo, here holding fry:
Here very young:
delivered us 8 assorted and healthy young, which all survive. Some are quite large now.
Nearly as large as mojo the Murderer.
Leeloo has since passed on, and we have also lost Cromwell...
... (who I had purchased) and Voodoo the bumblebee
...(who I miss) to predation & misfortune. We also lost 2 of 3 upside down cats, and my plecos are nipped.
All at the hands of vicious Mbuna hybrids.
I have sequestered Buttercup, the largest to the patio tank with two killer Plecos and a large peacock female. Hmmm...This was the female when young:
But now she is 4x as large, and very dull and dark stripes with almost no blue. The patio tank seems pretty happy.
There are some corydoras and convicts to keep them busy there too but we might have more hybrids in the future.
I will likely feed them to Felix the Oscar though.
some of my fish are getting too big. I'm supposed to dig a pond, but the virus scare has sent my handyman packing. That means I actually have to dig it myownself (!)
Soooo.... It might be an above ground pond/sump/habitat. I'm too busy re-engineering an old car to diddle with digging and plumbing. If I can get something delivered, plug in a pump, and fill it, that would be grand.
Meanwhile I'm breeding so many Dalmatian Mollies that I tossed a dozen maturing specimens in the tank of death, thinking Mojo would chase them and let the little Africans heal up a bit from all the nipping. No way.
Those Mollies congregate at the strainer eating leftovers, while the Africans tend to hide or crowd the inflow, waiting for food.
I see not one nipped Molly in 4 days so far. Unbelievable.
More pics later.
