Found African Fry

hopefully then the albinos are males then, they are the ones that like to make the pits. the tiger will move the bushes around, it's got one of them just about tore up.

 

sorry i haven't been on much in the past week, started a new job and it's an over an hour drive to and from work.
the african fry are doing good, getting big and eating like little pigs. we found one of the fry dead, don't know what had happen to it, didn't look like it got beat up or anything, just one of those things i guess. i'll try to get some pics up soon, camera got miss placed somewhere.

 

i have to agree with you dawn, it could've been a weak bunch of fry. we didn't know what to expect at first seeings how they are a mixed breed and as far as we know it was her firt set of fry. we are very surprised as to the number of fry she had and how wheel they are doing.

still haven't found the camera yet, when i do, i'll post some pics.

 

we finally was able to find the camera...here are a few pics of the fry...if they keep growing like they are, we'll need to get them a bigger tank sooner than we had planed on.

 

thanks dawn...this tank gets about 3-4 gal water change once a week and we figured it would be best to have something (decor) in there for them hide/play in.

 

update: went to feed the fry this morning and i saw one floating, i called out to my wife that one of the fry is dead, she came over to the tank and when i turned on the tank light we discovered that ALL 27 fry are dead ! we both had blank looks on our faces....woundering "what in the world" happened??????????????????????????????? i looked at the therometer and shouted "they got cooked" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! therometer only reads to 90*F and it was clear at the top. i opened the lid and instantly could feel the heat. poor little buggers. and to top it off, my 5 yr old got to see this before leaving for school. we were planning on in the next week or so on getting a bigger tank for the adults and putting they fry in the 55g.

 

thanks guys...the heater is an elite(less than 6 month old) and malfuntioned, i turned the dial all the way down and it still runs. i don't think we'll buying another one of those again.

 

thanks dawn, we'll definatly check into the temp alert thingy.

 

if your trying/wanting to breed then you may want to go with 1m to 3fm, they'll be less aggression on just a single female. we didn't even know for about a year that we had a female until we found fry. we had set up the african tank to be a mixed male community, we were told when we bought the female that she was a male sprengerae but turns out she is a greshakei. so i myself is actually "new" at the fish breeding thing. the only other advise that i can give you is to make sure that there's plenty of hidding places for the female(s).

 

i haven't dealt with any on-line fish suppliers yet so i can't help you there, sorry. the lfs i deal with have both sexes as juvies and adults.

 

i noticed this morning when i fed the africans that my female greshakei is holding again...she came up to the front of the tank and showed me that she has a mouth full of eggs.