Update on my festaes

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David R

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Seems how I suck at taking photos I took a short video, damn uaru kept hogging the spotlight though!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aqdrshgFXc

Out of the 8 I started with I've culled one who had a deformed spine, lost one to fighting, then about a month ago these two started looking like male and female (and getting along) so I seperated them out from the rest and put them in my 210g with all the clowns and a couple of other random cichlids just to get them away from the other festae to see how they got along, and to hopefully give them a growth spurt going from an 80g to a 210g.

I wanted to see if another pair would form with the dominant one removed, and I bought hone an extra female from the LFS of a similar size, but it looks like the 5 I have left are all girls as noone has taken over the role of dominant male.
 
They look great. They both have awesome color. Are the remaining 3 as colorful?
 
Just bumping this up, the pair spawned the day before I left for my xmas holiday, just over 12 months since I got them as 1" juvi's. Both are around 6", maybe slightly larger. Unfortunately most of the eggs were white, and my friend who is minding them while I'm away said they've all gone.

I was surprised it happened so quickly, I was expecting to have to wait quite some time!
 
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