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I guess I will just have to wait and see I don't have much spare time at the mo to give special care raising fry. Thanks for your advice

Thanks for your advice both. If I just let them get on with it and don't strip would there be any survivers. What sort of care does the mother give after release, any at all? Thanks

Hi, My Tropheus have been showing signs of breeding for a while now, earlier this week I notice that one seemed to be holding- bucal cavity enlarged etc. this carried on for a couple of days then she was back to normal. I am presuming this is the first spawning could there be any other reason for this? There arn't any fry around that I can see. What do tropheus do once they release do they continue to protect the fry or just leave them?

Just reloaded larger pics to photobucket the fry are clearer now. :lol:

That was disapointing the pics were far better on my PC seem to have lost somthing uploading to photobucket.

I finaly managed to get some pics or the transcriptus fry. The first is of the babies original pair since then I have another breeding at the other end of the tank. The Julie in this photo is about 45mm the fry are from 3 t0 10mm The Julie in this photo is about 35mm the fry are from 3 t0 12mm

I've counted 6 so far ranging from 3 to 10 mm but I think there are more .

I tried but they are in an 8mm crevice at the back of the tank and only dart out to get food. They are a little more adventurous now as soon as I can get a decent on I will post it

I just used a 2 part resin from Mitre 10 it was left for weeks to dry as I made the background before I got the tank. No I didn't wash it off just set the tank up then ran a few days with a few large water changes checking it had no effect on the ph etc before adding fish.

Just spotted at least 4 fry 3 to 4mm long inbetween some decore :lol: . Two transcritus are hanging around so I presume these are the parents. I will try to get some pics and post them.

Mt Taranaki.

The back ground is made of poly covered in sand and coloured cement then painted with resin it's different shades of grey when not covered in algee. There are tropheus, leleupi, transcriptus and bn's in there. There is also a cory sterbai and a herlequin which I used to help mature the tank before I put the rest in, I presumed they would not last but are both still going strong, look a little out of place but are ignored by the africans.

And another sorry pics not so good I'm not the best photographer.

Here's a pic of my tropheus tank. I used flat pebbles from the local rivers.