IME the brichardi will eventually take over the tank. I had mine in with some calvus and leleupi, and petricolas.....................now that tank has only brichardi, as I had to move the others out.
Finally, Brichardi Breeding
- Thread starter AfroCichlid
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The 4 I have now are the only permanent resident Brichardi. Eventually I'll remove all the offspring until we get into a place we own, then I'd like to have a 100+ gallon Tang community, where perhaps a few could remain.
It's really tough to get a decent pic of these guys, they're all the way in the back corner behind a rock structure. They look just like little white tadpoles. They are clinging to the bottom of the tan rock, just to the left of the large pebble ( that " large pebble " is about 1/4'' ). I'll try to get some better pics later, I don't have the time to wrestle with my camera settings this morning.
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I don't think you'll have too many problems with other fish eating the fry. I had three plecos in my tank with no eyes after my brichardi's first successful breeding attempt. I would be more worried about the other fish in the tank.
Still wrigglers today. The clutch was smallish, perhaps 40-50 eggs, it's hard to get a count on the wrigglers, they lay in a pit dug by the parents, and now and then cling to the side of the slate rock they were laid on. I plan on feeding newly hatched brine shrimp and finely crushed flake. This has always worked fine for me, though I have yet to successfully hatch and rear this species. I plan on removing most once they are free swimming and rearing them in a 20 breeder.
They are definitely aggressive parents, but they're together with some rough fish, most of which have larger mouths than the Brichardi. So far so good, they are among the smaller fish in the tank, and everybody seems to have gotten the message. I haven't found any damage to any of the rest of the community.
hey afro didnt you say that there were calvus in there with them, if so you are so right the calvus are great fry eaters usually just hoover vacuum them right in aye and calvus just manuver side to side as to avoid or retreat from a would be attacker thats why i love em and i have em, later buddy oh yeah i am with you i would remove some of the fry..
