Hecticity Posted February 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Nice fish.I have 2 right now. One is 7-8inch female who has laid two clutches already. Second one is a suspected female around 10cm or so, probably looking to sell that one. The larger cuban did not tolerate it.I found that male and female are easier to tell apart as they get a bit bigger as body shape...head slope, width and girth are quite different between the two, as well as colour with the female being more blue and the male more silver gold. Could just be mine though. Pics....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hecticity Posted February 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Nice pics Hecticity, got stiff neck on the first one though... is that the female?Haha yeah no matter what I seemed to do I couldn't get it the right way up.... Yeah that's the female, top dog in the fish room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruju Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Yeah I will get some pics up, how do you do it with the new configuration? Very hard to sex when young, I was positive my big one was male until it laid eggs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hecticity Posted February 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 Haha yeah I wrongly sexed both of mine to start, I will try and get some better shots of my male. Basically drag and drop or copy and paste...easy as. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TbarTerror Posted February 24, 2016 Report Share Posted February 24, 2016 Nice fish.I have 2 right now. One is 7-8inch female who has laid two clutches already. Second one is a suspected female around 10cm or so, probably looking to sell that one. The larger cuban did not tolerate it.Let me know if you do happen to sell her once sex is confirmed I could be interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruju Posted March 3, 2016 Report Share Posted March 3, 2016 Finally got around to taking some pics... dealing with some turbidity issues in the tank so excuse cloudiness.Cuban is the big momma in the tank, got to be like 20cm eyeballing it.Tank mates include: 2 midas, 1 convict, 1 salvini, 2 delhezi bichirs, 1 longfin senegal, 1 palmas palmas, 2 bristlenose.I have 2 more salvinis and 2 small texas in a growout. Will add to main tank and then keep the ones I like the most in there. Silverdollarboy2 and fishyNZ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hecticity Posted March 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 Nice...! Be interesting to see how those midas develop...How big is your tank...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hecticity Posted March 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 Few more pics of my male. fishyNZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruju Posted March 4, 2016 Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 Tank is only 450L so isn't really able to hold all of these fish long term. Yeah I'm hoping the midas turn out to be creamsickle ones. I also have a jaguar x flowerhorn hybrid in another tank but that thing is aggressive. I like your male! Very similar looking to my female actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishyNZ Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 Got free-swimming fry yesterday; first noticed the eggs about a week ago. I've deferred siphoning so pardon the mess. diyer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruju Posted April 21, 2016 Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 Awesome, good luck with rearing the larvae! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishyNZ Posted April 21, 2016 Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 Close-up view of the "shoal". I've removed the parents, fed bbs, siphoned off some debris and changed the water; all whilst the kids are sleeping. Yawn... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverdollarboy2 Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 How did the fry go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishyNZ Posted January 30, 2017 Report Share Posted January 30, 2017 A number of first batch fry (above) went to a couple of places up north. I would say a large percentage of the first batch have deformities, particularly symmetrically downward-bent pectoral fins. As far as I know these are appearance only and do not affect movement at all. A few juveniles remain from succeeding batches. They don't have any deformities last I checked but will be holding until they get much bigger. There is also a new batch of fry, a few weeks old. Caryl and Silverdollarboy2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruju Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 How are everybody's Cubans doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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