Exiled
Fish Herder
G'morning fishy-folk..... I think someone's been dropping viagra in the local water here 
--- looks like 2 of my elongatus yellow Usisya's AND my biggest Melo. cyanerhabdos (whom I always thought was male) are loaded with eggs! Man does it look funny! This is the first time my own mbuna are holding.....AND another DOUBLE clutch of Lamp occelatus's in my tang tank are emerging from their shells. Wooohoooo! Can you hear the splisher-splasher of little fins?
Now-- seriously.....
I would like to raise the mbuna fry. Catching them once they have hatched will be impossible (for those who know what my mbuna tank looks like you'll agree).
The holding females are not fully grown fish yet -- it would be stretching it to say they are half the size of fully grown fish. What do people think about stripping a fish so young and having its first reproductive cycle? Is it a concern, or should I leave them alone for the first few clutches of eggs until the females sort of get into the rythm of things?
--Lee
--- looks like 2 of my elongatus yellow Usisya's AND my biggest Melo. cyanerhabdos (whom I always thought was male) are loaded with eggs! Man does it look funny! This is the first time my own mbuna are holding.....AND another DOUBLE clutch of Lamp occelatus's in my tang tank are emerging from their shells. Wooohoooo! Can you hear the splisher-splasher of little fins?Now-- seriously.....
I would like to raise the mbuna fry. Catching them once they have hatched will be impossible (for those who know what my mbuna tank looks like you'll agree).
The holding females are not fully grown fish yet -- it would be stretching it to say they are half the size of fully grown fish. What do people think about stripping a fish so young and having its first reproductive cycle? Is it a concern, or should I leave them alone for the first few clutches of eggs until the females sort of get into the rythm of things?
--Lee
