Finally...the 40

[Obsidian]

Woo Hoo Congratulations!!! PICS PICS PICS PICS!

[shade2dope]

wow thats cool I just got a Aulonocara sp maleri.Got a good deal on a trio have had my eye on them for some time.The female is holding thought shed spit them before I got them home but she's still holding strong.Iam going to post pics of tank and fish some time this week maybe

[fishbguy]

I got some nice pics of the male, and a few of the john, now I just have to get some of the females, and the tank, then I"ll download them.

[shade2dope]

well post then post them lol jk Wont be able to see them till tomorow

[fishbguy]

okay..sorry it took so long...I took the pics sunday I think, but I just now have time to upload them due to no work or homework today!!



more coming once I resize them

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[oliesminis]

amazing tank, great fish.

any signs of baby's yet?

[fishbguy]

nooo...I've got patientce tho...lol

They're still kinda young, but the ,male never stops displaying.

[fishbguy]

What do holding females look like? I think I know...lol

I have a female, who's gotten male coloration, as in dark, verticle bars, and a black dorsal, but no egg spots. In her mouth, she's obviously holding something...her chin is protruding and her gills don't "close" all the way. Every so often she looks to be moving stuff around in her mouth as well. I haven't checked to see if she eats anything yet. She hides alot behind the filter output. Is it possible she's holding? I remember reading that female saulosis, when holding, devolope non-dominent male coloration to help with the aggressivness from the dominent male, and this female deffaintly looks like a non dominent male.

Speaking of non dominent males, I currently have 3 males, and 4 females. one dominenet, 2 non dominent. All of the saulosis like to hang around at the top of the tank when the light is on, and the johnjoansonae is always hanging around on the very bottom of the tank. Bink just stays in his hole all day and night...lol

[guppyart]

looks good andrew but you seem to be missing something very very important.
were are the black morphos gosh boy thought you would get this right this time.
and you think you can lecture me:O

hehe

[fishbguy]

What do black morphos have to do with this?

I can prepare a whole lecture about how your being stoopid...lol

[fishbguy]

okay, so first pic...One of my non dominent males is decideding to turn blue...not that great of a choice on his part, seeing as how he's gonna get his ass kicked by Rudy(the dominent male). He does look rather pretty tho...lol

Second and third pic are of my "holding" female.

fourth is Rudy, just decided to snap a pic of him, cause he wasn't moving, so the camera would actually focus on him...lol

[fishbguy]

I think she may have spit/swallowed the eggs

But on the plus side, kinda, my other 2 males are turning blue...which will look cool to me, but not to Rudy(the dominent male). They are almost all blue now, still a little dark, but the yellow is almost gone

[fishbguy]

Everyone is getting along....both of my other males(I have 3 total) are still coloring up, but they are sort of a yellowish blue, with no stripes, so my dominent male isn't bothering them.

I just took a look at them, and I know have for sure 1, and possibly 2 holding females. If I can catch them, I"m gonna try stripping them before they can swallow the eggs, and look into tumbling.

[fishbguy]

Still no babies....I"ve had a couple of females holding, but something happened to the eggs/fry while I was gone for spring break. The green water is now gone, but I lowered the lighting as well. My 2 anubia congnesis isn't doing too hot. I had to trim all the leaves off because they were rotting, and now, as soon as another leaf grows and is about an inch long, it dies. My Anubia nanas are doing wonderfully tho.

Cichlids are growing. Still no fights. Well...just kidding. My male that is second in command got beat up...badly. All of his fins were gone and the base of all of his fins were white. Their all grown back now, and he must have learned his lesson because he's blue, but has some yellow in him. My dominent male looks really nice still, as do all my females. Bink(the gold nugget) is fine. He's growing, kinda, but he's still alive. There hasn't been algae on the side of the glass since, ever, or on the rocks. So I drop cucumber and zuchini in every third night or so, along with some frozen krill every other week. I don't think he get's too much of it tho because the saulosis eat most of it...lol He has a nice fat belly tho, so he has to be eating something.

I haven't re-arranged the tank since I last took pics, but I might have to to get those trouble anubias out. I"m getting more slate as well from a costumer from my work in the next few weeks as well.

[shade2dope]

Sounds good.I strip my females after about 2 weeks from the time I see there holding.But I dont think your's held them that long.Sounds good cant wait to see new pics.

[fishbguy]

They hold for between 4-6 days...then something happens to the eggs.

[shade2dope]

My old female aurtuis did that her first few times