Someones Been Breeding In My Tank.

[smudger72]

I was watching my fish tank last night while I had the moonlights on and I noticed some odd behaviour from a few of the fish.
It looked like a knight gobie and my wasp fish were doing back flips in there, they were all over the place.
When I looked closer I could see what looked like hundreds of babies swimming in the tank. Obviously they were all eaten and that's what these fish were doing, eating.
But who's babies were they?
In the tank are.
Figure 8 puffers Unlikely
Wasp fish Unlikely
Orange chromides Possible
Knight Gobies Possible.

Has anyone bred knight gobies or orange chromides before and know what the spawning rituals of these fish is.
If I can sort out which ones are spawning I might just seperate them into a spare tank and see if I can get some babies.

Ta

 

[nmonks]

Almost certainly the orange chromides. They will willingly breed in community tanks, with both parents guarding the fry. The fry are a little tricky to rear because the fry are small by cichlid standards. So you'll likely need to use brine shrimp nauplii as a first food. In addition, the fry "graze" on mucous secreted by the flanks of the parents, similar to what you see with discus. Well worth looking out for.

Cheers, Neale

 

[smudger72]

Neale,
Would you seperate the parent's or leave them as I witnessed one of the orange chromides eating the fry as well.

 

[nmonks]

It's almost always best to "let nature take its course". For a start, these cichlids will try to breed every month for the rest of their lives, so it isn't like you're going to have any shortage of baby chromides! But more importantly, with many cichlids it takes a couple of attempts before they get all their behaviours working properly. Eventually they get everything right and the aquarist can watch the full range of their amazing behaviours. Much more rewarding that trying to rear the fry yourself.

Cheers, Neale

Would you seperate the parent's or leave them as I witnessed one of the orange chromides eating the fry as well.

 

[smudger72]

It's almost always best to "let nature take its course". For a start, these cichlids will try to breed every month for the rest of their lives, so it isn't like you're going to have any shortage of baby chromides! But more importantly, with many cichlids it takes a couple of attempts before they get all their behaviours working properly. Eventually they get everything right and the aquarist can watch the full range of their amazing behaviours. Much more rewarding that trying to rear the fry yourself.

Cheers, Neale

Would you seperate the parent's or leave them as I witnessed one of the orange chromides eating the fry as well.

Thanks for the info.
As harsh as it sounds letting them breed like that means that the wasp fish are getting some food.

 

[nmonks]

Indeed, and the knight gobies too!

How 'bout some pictures?

Cheers, Neale

As harsh as it sounds letting them breed like that means that the wasp fish are getting some food.

 

[smudger72]

Couple of pics as requested Neale.

 

[Colin_T]

The orange chromides are a good colour. We used to get them like that here but haven't been allowed to import them for years so now the colours are crap. Knight gobies are nice and the wasp fish is pretty cool.

Now the answer I wanted to put under the original heading.
Someones Been Breeding in my Tank., But Who? It wasn't me but I hear this chick Goldilocks has been hanging around lately.

 

[smudger72]

The orange chromides are a good colour. We used to get them like that here but haven't been allowed to import them for years so now the colours are crap. Knight gobies are nice and the wasp fish is pretty cool.

Now the answer I wanted to put under the original heading.
Someones Been Breeding in my Tank., But Who? It wasn't me but I hear this chick Goldilocks has been hanging around lately.