For those of you who have followed my plight with wc Cyprichromis, I think the plague has finally passed. I started with 22 of them. This is what they looked like (pics below) when I first got them: very healthy, eating great, fluttering all over the place. I even inherited two females carrying eggs (from which three fry have survived and will be placed back in the main tank when I feel they are big enough to not get chomped by the Comps). I started losing Cyps one by one: they all got sunken bellies. Over the past year, I sought advice from experienced friends and nothing I tried seemed to work.
For the past few months, I have been down to five Cyps (1m/4f) and they have been eating good and I noticed today that the male is starting to get some color again. I looked a little harder and noticed one of the girls is holding eggs :dance: Color & breeding has got to mean they are happy - right?
Hopefully, LORD willing, I can learn from my mistakes with the last batch of Cyp fry and get a few more to adulthood and bring my numbers in the main tank back up to a decent schooling level for a 125 gallon tank.
For the past few months, I have been down to five Cyps (1m/4f) and they have been eating good and I noticed today that the male is starting to get some color again. I looked a little harder and noticed one of the girls is holding eggs :dance: Color & breeding has got to mean they are happy - right?
Hopefully, LORD willing, I can learn from my mistakes with the last batch of Cyp fry and get a few more to adulthood and bring my numbers in the main tank back up to a decent schooling level for a 125 gallon tank.
