Meelli Fry

[MojoDex]

ok today doing my water changes i noticed around 20 fry swimming around one of my females meeli's shells, needless to say im overjoyed

but a quick question as this is the first time they have bred, they were only fry themselves when i got them and i have currently had them just under a year

has anyone bred them before and do i need to worry about the fry being eat when they grow on a bit?? there is next to no information on Meeli online so i figured someone on here would know

 

[emmsy]

http/www.cichlidae.com/article.php?id=61

this might help

Emma

 

[MojoDex]

spot on thats got all the info i need cheers emmsy

 

[emmsy]

spot on thats got all the info i need cheers emmsy

My pleasure

Emma

 

[WaterBender1995]

www.finsout.com
was always my GOTO site for shelldwellers and heres the page on hecqui:

http/www.finsout.com/fish/hecquiinfo.html

 

[jumpman]

I had a pair of Hecqui (which many believe are Meeli) that regularly bred in my 180l tang community.

I found that they would start chasing them away/attacking them after about 6-8 weeks. This was because they started a new batch every month or so and I presume were protecting the young.

Have you got any other fish in the tank they are in?

 

[MojoDex]

hecqui and meeli have actually been described as different species meeli grow signifficantly bigger than hecqui

there in a species tank all to them selves just the 5 of them in there

 

[jumpman]

hecqui and meeli have actually been described as different species meeli grow signifficantly bigger than hecqui

Yes that is the common description. But many experienced tang keepers/breeders dispute this and regard them as the same species. Personally I am undecided, in terms of size I have seen full grown male hecqui easily as large as meeli.

Anyway, very similar in any case so you will probably get a similar breeding pattern. How do they treat the other 3 in the tank at the moment? Are you thinking of starting another tank for the young?

 

[MojoDex]

experienced tang keep may dispute it but scientists do not and they haver the option of opening fish up to see

im a bit unsure as to how to treat the fry, as it happens the other 3 live on the opposite side of the tank and only the parents are near the fry at the moment.

im not sure if i want to be over run with meeli but at the same time i dont want the fry to die. further to that i dont really want to sell them to a fish shop who will inturn sell them to some idiot to put in his community tank.

in short i dont know

 

[WaterBender1995]

Mojo,
would you mind sharing with us those articles that say their a different species, I'd be curious to read them.
thank you