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mostlycichlids

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Apr 27, 2006
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At the moment I have a very aggressive 75g Mbuna tank. I have two holding females. First holding female is a Metriaclima greshakei I am not sure if the male is my albino or another regular gene. I am pretty sure it's the albino. There are four males and about eight females. The other is one of my Pseudotropheus crabro is holding. There are three females and one male. This has my male (Tank Boss) Metriaclima lombardoi mad. I had to move his partner because he beat her up the last time she wasn't in the mood to spawn. I plan to move her back next week. The lombardoi is trying to find any female he can and chasing everyone off in his quest to do so.

I did a water change yesterday and this is when I found all this going on. I noticed a few fry thumbnail clipping size moving around on the bare glass of the bottom. I looks like greshakei fry from the last spawn that somehow made it (probably not for too much longer). Needless to say I got my hand nudged around by the two most dominant males yesterday. The lombardoi was trying to take blood from me. You want to see an aggressive Mbuna tank get em some good clean water and let em all spawn at once!
 
hehehe its in the water aye, i have the same issue right now with my tangs, i have brichardi breeding like crazy in the 120gal and finally as of 3 years i have a frontosa pair off yay so i will most def be glued to the 120gal for frontosa action i didnt think they would ever pair up and the female is digging, in my 55gal shellie tank i have the everbreeding multi's going strong and now my julidochromis transcriptus breeding, i have a pair of pseudotropheus sp. elongatus chewere getting in the mood in a 30gal they are by themselves i have a 20gal ready to go i got rid of my jewel pair and i just ordered a clan of neolamprologus meleagris another cool shellie in which they will have the 20 to themselves fry overload..
 
:lol: that is so true mostlycichlids you da man.. :headbang2::headbang2::headbang2:
 
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