Shocked to see these guys last week...

freshmike

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I noticed one of my julies was acting a little strange last week, as were the brichardi....hanging out around this one cave all of the time....so I went in to investigate....found babies! Thought to self...."*self* could these be more brichardi babies?" No possible way! There are WAY less than 4 thousand babies there and I only have 2 males in there -_- ......but why are the brichardi still hanging out there and chasing other fish away????? Still I question this....however, it took me a few moments to realize that all of the babies were hanging out ~upside-down~ .......finally it clicked, these could only be julies....they are SUPER cute, VERY unexpected and growing quite quickly. I believe there are only 6-7 of them, don't know for sure, they REALLY like to hide, but I could only get a couple crappy pictures of 2 of them....hope you like them, I am pretty proud even though I hear julies are pretty easy to breed, just not usually in a community cichlid tank with brichardi, savoryi (who have also bred again :p )and frontosa. :thumbs:
 

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:D Upside-down of course. :p
 

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Mom. :wub:
 

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Mom, looking especially evil. :devil:
 

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One of the guardian brichardi. :flex: :unsure: *wants to know why they are being so nice to the julie babies?*
 

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....and one of the fish who REALLY wants to eat the babies. :lol:
 

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Aww thats really cute! :fun:

Maybe the birchardi are showing signs of community sociality, hence why they are protecting the babies!

Ben
 
what type of gravel do you use n your tank freshmike, because im thinking of using some in my new 55 uk gallon tank?
 
Um. -_- That one is kinda difficult....because this tank is 2 different types of gravel, crushed coral and sand.....a little bit of everything. :p
 
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....and one of the fish who REALLY wants to eat the babies. :lol:
:hyper: :grr: You need to add diclaimers when that psychopath sorrell eating fish is going to pop up in a thread :crazy: Ya know they scare me :*)
 

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