Does anyone keep Cyrtocara Moorii with Mbuna?

Cool deal Kop nice video and nice song choice..

Come on granpa efors you never had a fry make it in a rocky Malawi setup i had a 55gal Mbuna setup with redtop cobalt blue zebra's in it with a few other zebra's and i had a crap load of fry make it to adulthood but then again i had tons of rocks in that old setup, efors may need some more rocks..:headshake2:
 
:o! I think you are right, little grandson! But I need small rocks for a pile with small crevices where the fry can hide avoiding the possibility of being reached by the adults. :banhim:
 
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Yeah, as you can see in my vids, I have piles of pebbles so these provide a nice amount of cracks to hide in that the bigger fish can't quite get into.

Also...I only turn my undergravel jet on once a week...I noticed another fry hiding in the jet. Theoretically they all could be in the pipe system underneath the sand having the entire run of the tank. I won't be turning it on for a while just in case.

I'd really like to catch the one I know (the one in the vid) but I think he'd just dart and I'd never get him. At least he's safe in there.

Is it a good idea to suck up fry with a tube (ie off a siphone)? Or would that kill them or something?
 
Actually some books recommend that process of sucking baby fish through a small hose to capture them.. I would only state that if isn't that powerful your fry should be ok..
 
Would I be able to tell which fry is which at this stage?

Some of them look brownish and some of them are greyish (like in the vid).

The bowner ones all seem bigger too.

I've spotted quite a few more in the last day or so. One high up on the rockork at the back, kind of clinging to the crevice in a rock.

The one in the vid went last night. Not sure if he was eaten or went somewhere else (he seems quite adventurous to come out of the main pebble pile in the first place). So here's hoping he's just off on another adventure and not in the catfish's belly.
 
aah those featherfins squeakers really are quite cool but i never witness mine eating fry.. but i wouldn't rule it out though.. as for the different colors of the fry it sounds like you have two different sets of fry..
 
Yeah, my rusty released the day before my Afra.

But I wasn't sure if I was actually seeing colour differences or I was just imagining it, haha.

It is quite distinct though so the browny ones must be the Rusty and the smaller ligther ones the Afra.
 
That is what i would assume as well cool deal buddy glad all is going smoothly..
 
Melody Doucet said:
This is a very interesting thread. I love africans. Kop, please post a full tank shot.
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Sorry for the delay. Not the best pics, taken on me phone.

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Just want to give you a rundown of the fry situation.

I've observed the following. Although fry have been spotted elsewhere, these locations always have the same fry in them. The arrow pointing to LOCATION 5 indicates where this particular fry moved from (ie the location in the vid above).

1. Rusty Fry. Likes to hide in the pipe hidden there for my undergravel jet. Survived the entire tank bumrushing the pebbles when the Firefish stole the Catfish's pellet and dropped it in the gaps.

2. Rusty Fry. The pebbles go all the way to the back of the tank from theis front location, some are buried deep creating chasms underneath for retreat. He only comes out when feeding.

3. Afra Fry. The largest fry of the lot. Although a small space, the labs like to get busy back there so I don't know how he survives to be honest.

4. Rusty fry. Has chosen one of the main escape tunnells for fish, also big enough to get the catfish in. He goes from the middle hole to the lower hole (under the angled rock).

5. Afra fry. THE BIG MOVER. Started out in location 2...then went to the location of the vid (ie where the arrow is coming from), then went up to LOCATION 5. He goes from under the pebble on the left, to right out in the open on the right. You cant tell from the pic, but the large rock crating the peak of the mountain so to speak in concave underneath creating a large cave which is innaccessible to all fish (none have ever gone in). It's a good spot despite being the highest.
 
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