livingart Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 just been discussing natural selection in our african tank w have a large tank with a bit of rockwork and some large fish the bumblebees, brichardi, electric yellows and lumpheads breed fairly regularly has about 15 young bumble bee that i could see in the tank 2 or 3 weeks ago down to about 6 visibles so far they have to contend with these guys we end up with about 10% survival i suppose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 continue here then. lol. first - nice tank, lol... what is that bright pure yellow fish? judging by the size of those guys im actually surprised that 10% survive! That's amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 big fish is an 11 year old electric yellow had 4 of them but age has beaten the other 3, he has lost most of his black see the small fry at bottom of top pic i like the look with all the rock in yours i may add more to this one yet i think it will hlp fry survival rate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 electric yellow? you can say that again! he is massive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bounce: whoa! what a whopper! those baby fish are bumble bee cichlids? pretty nasty fish arent they? but that front seems pretty content with life and is not eating them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 the front hunts at night the fronts are deceptive they seem like big cruisers but their turn and grab is very fast the dig male crabro is pretty agressive in the tank but it is spread around the tank and the giraffe is the top dog and not agressivee there are other fish that the bumblebee won't pick on as well took the auratus out as it was too niggly giraffe is pushing 9 inches maybe more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 which bit do you like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 yeah. that venustus looks amazing. good to see they are in a tank that they can swim about like mad. maybe if there were heaps of small schist pieces stacked it would provide shelter for the babies, and then then as they grew there would be more survivors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 Have to agree there the tank looks awesome There doesn't seem to be an awful lot of rocks for having that sort of number of babies survive so your doing well More rocks should help, but as you have said fronts are great nocturnal feeders (guess it makes sense as they tend to live quite deep where it is darker) and babies sometimes drift from cover when sleeping so they may still gobble them up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navarre Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 I Liked that Astis in the middle ground Navarre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 there is a few kilos of rock in there and some very large pieces :roll: the fronx, giraffe and astis are pretty cruisy fish the red top and yellow top are niggly the astis have grown and 2 largest frons are almost same size as the venustus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinsonMassif Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 I love that tank. I am falling in love with Frons I think. This development might be dangerous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 i think once you keep frontosas it is a love affair they have an aura about them took this set of photos one after the other the right hand side of the tank where the lumpheads and electric yellows hang out lots of babies hang out bottom right pile of rocks and the alpha fron owns the big cave in the middle middle of tank, a sort of everymans land they think its feeding time left hand side where brichardis lurk and breed flat rock leaning on left is where the other large fron hides Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 the older the fronts get - the more graceful and elegant their movements become. quite a cool fish really :bounce: PS- I like that Ice Blue too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogod Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 cool Tank, water looks really clear,I love those fronts,Can feel another Tank project coming up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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