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Tropheus experiment - adding juvies to existing colonies


smidey

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I will run this over a considerable time to see how it pans out. Some say this should not or will not work but from my experience i will be fine. I have purchased these juvies so it is my $ on the line.

a week ago i added 9 tropheus moliro juvies & 1 tropheus pemba, all around 3cm to a 200L 4 foot tank that already has red empress juvies (approx 20 between 4&6cm) & 10 approx 6cm tropheus pembas. In this week the juvies already seem to have grown & i have not witnessed (i have been watching them like a proud new parent :lol: ) any harrasment from the larger fish apart from the first hour when they were introduced. Also during this week two of the pembs have spawned, i have a female holding so the aggression levels have been up.

so far the larger fish don't seem to show any interest in the juvies at all, i will continue to watch them when ever i can & update with what i find.

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a week on & the juvies look to be growing very well, moliros are starting to show some red in their fins & the pemba is showing a faint blaze through its stripes. there has been a little chasing by the largest moliro of the smaller moliro but that is the only aggro i have seen so far. the adult pembas are trying to breed with each other & have shown no interest in the juvies.

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