dwarf cockatoo cichlids eating

[jollysue]

Thanks pnyklr3. I only get to watch closely a couple days a week, so I may miss it. She's been yellow for awhile and they've been like courting for awhile. How long does the courtship last. I suppose I will get to successfully raise some along the way.

I'll let you know if I see anything and I'll be around for wisdom and advice.I'll have a better idea this weekend, although I have some more decor coming in this weekend, including caves, and may try to get some more plants going for the tetras, thus disturbing the tank.

I saw two of my serpae doing a shimmy dance like you are describing.

I'll let you know.

 

[lucky62]

If those tetras start nipping the apistos get rid of them , Harlequin rasbora are awesome , similar in color to the serpae [ that being pinkish ] but very peaceful .

 

[jollysue]

You're cute and predictabe!

I am ready to take the serpae out and into the 20 gallon. It's not decorated, but I believe it is cycled enough for six tetras. (It had goldfish, and I've added a little fish food occasionally.) Those serpae have gone crazy since I started adding the freezedried brine shrimp to the tank. The little cockatoos are holding their own, and I am watching, but the top fray has become Westside story for the tetra. My new adolecsent black phantoms are all torn up. And I have reservations about putting the little girls in: they aren't even an inch, more like 1/2 to 3/4. I have 3 juvenal bleeding hearts to put in too. Yes the serpae definately have to go someplace else for now. I'll add some others, too, to the 20 gal. I may have to look for another tank. Maybe if I split them up they won't be so competitive.

I'm getting ready to order some more otos and peppered cories and a very small hatchet called a Marthae Silver Hatchet (2") and maybe a couple brislenose. So I am going to want the room. I tested the 100 gal. last night, a week since a water change. The water appeared to be spot on. I just use strips still. Lots of algae with the new lites

Yes I am looking at the rasbora, also that blue and yellow Bosemani rainbow . I think this winter when tanks go on sale I will start looking--or I could build a refugium. But at this point I just might want to enlarge and have a varied cockatoo community tank. Try some of the more spectacular varieties.

So there you go. If I'm going to do anything, Ill have to get moving. I haven't been able to get away from the stupid keyboard: I have a minor in Sociology: I like to study group behavior. I've been examining the politics in the forums.

 

[lucky62]

thank you ) predictable , I've been called dependable , ......first time for everything

serpaes get kind crazy sometimes .

 

[jollysue]

If those tetras start nipping the apistos get rid of them , Harlequin rasbora are awesome , similar in color to the serpae [ that being pinkish ] but very peaceful .

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Predictable in your affection for the apistos

 

[lucky62]

mini piranhas

 

[jollysue]

mini piranhas

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I just found out about the mini pirhana thing. If I had known I never would have gotten them.

Is the blue yellow fish you breed the bosemani?

 

[lucky62]

no , I don't breed rainbows , but I do have fry from the fish in my avatar , the peacock gudgeon .........my rainbows are pseudomogal or something like that AKA blue eyed rainbow fish /dwarf rainbow fish , and some of the more fancy looking ones are said to be as bad as Serpaes , the 4 I have school with my rasbora and danios and nip nothing .

 

[jollysue]

The little girls appear to have succssfully moved to the big tank!



They are cruising around dodging the hyped up clowns. I don't think they are an inch yet. One is a little darker than the other, and one is a little bolder than the other. I don't know which is which yet.

I don't think they and the couple have hooked up yet. Everyone is disoriented, because I tore everything apart again and added new decor. Therefore the serpaes are behaving. I wasn't successful in capturing any of them. I think I'm going to get me a trap. I may try at a good feeding time, again, when they are divebombing the brine shrimp.

The little pre adolescent bleeding hearts have joined up successfully and are sticking with their elders. They are making a nice school.

I am pleased so far.

Do you have pictures? So the blue/yellow fish you have mentioned before is the peacock? He is handsome. How big is he?

 

[jollysue]

The girls have met the Lady and Gent. The little girls seem to want to call the Lady "Mama". But she will have none of it. She will bully them and chase them around, but then the Gent comes and fluffs out his fins, moves between them and corrects the Lady, but he still moves up to her like he's putting his arm around her. (Too anthropomorphic? ) He is cruising around, but he keeps a close eye on the little girls. I think he went and found the lighter little girl and brought her to their end of the tank. (The other end is the caves where the loaches rule.) While he was gone the Lady played a take on the role of Kate from Taming of the Shrew.

They are looking to resettle and are eyeing some prospective homes. I assume that I may have distroyed a nest.
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