Nannacara aureocephalus spawn

Becca

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I found the female of the pair I set up in the 20 gallon guarding a teeny tiny flower pot full of eggs this morning from some evil female Badis badis... I think they are improving her maternal instinct... just hoping she manages to keep the fry safe from them.

Dad was hiding in the far corner behind a piece of slate. Guess he's served his purpose.
 
Becca

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Maybe I'll work on pulling the other fish from the tank in the least invasive way possible tonight...

Food in a net - that's how I caught them out of the 150 in the first place.
 
jonclark96

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Congrats on the spawn. They are pretty neat fish. Hopefully you can raise some fry to spread around.
 
Becca

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chriscoli said:
Yay, congrats! I get lots of eggs, but no fry yet from mine.
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Yeah, that's what Damian told me about his, too. I guess we'll see. Lots of eggs and no fry seems to be the fashion at my house.

I ended up with these guys quite accidentally - I only intended to take Damian's extra male but went to get some fish from Jeff Greenspan when he broke down his office and we found a whole group hiding in a 75 gallon - 1 male, 3 females. I set these guys about 6 weeks ago and they just started getting along about a week ago.
 
mchambers

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I've got two I got from Sam about a year ago. The female colors up, but I never see any other evidence of romantic intent or accomplishment.

I also picked up a male and female Nannacara Anomala (love that name) from Sam in his liquidation sale. They've been pretty shy thus far.

With Sam leaving, it's up to the rest of us to have these types of fish spawn!
 
Becca

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mchambers said:
I've got two I got from Sam about a year ago. The female colors up, but I never see any other evidence of romantic intent or accomplishment.

I also picked up a male and female Nannacara Anomala (love that name) from Sam in his liquidation sale. They've been pretty shy thus far.

With Sam leaving, it's up to the rest of us to have these types of fish spawn!
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I often suspect that the male aureocephalus I got from Damian is an anomala, but Damian got him from Sam who swears he gave Damian all aureocephalus. I've only seen him color up sort of like an aureocephalus on rare occasion, other times he's deep blue with green "highlights." Not at all the color of my other male and about twice the size. He picked a fight with my male Rainbow cichlid when we first put him in the 150 - I think he actually won, which is impressive, since he's about 1/4 the size.
 
mchambers

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I don't think Sam had Anomala before April, when he bought some at the PVAS auction. So unless Damian got the fish after that, it should be an Aureocephaus. Of course, trying telling that to the fish!
 
Becca

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mchambers said:
I don't think Sam had Anomala before April, when he bought some at the PVAS auction. So unless Damian got the fish after that, it should be an Aureocephaus. Of course, trying telling that to the fish!
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Exactly - I just call him an "anomaly of an aureocephalus." Sam did tell me that looks mean absolutely nothing with this fish, so....
 
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Say what?

Becca said:
Sam did tell me that looks mean absolutely nothing with this fish, so....
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I never - haven't enough experience with them for that - do know my male anomala showed mostly blue as opposed to yellow/green, and that the females are basically indistinguishable between species.

Everything that went out of here before last month was aureocephalus which includes at least a dozen bags of 5-8 juveniles to different CCA/PVAS people, 80+ to Tropical Lagoon and about 50 to Western PA.

I'd be inclined to pull everything but the female if you want to max the chances for a large cohort.
 
Becca

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I never - haven't enough experience with them for that - do know my male anomala showed mostly blue as opposed to yellow/green, and that the females are basically indistinguishable between species.

Everything that went out of here before last month was aureocephalus which includes at least a dozen bags of 5-8 juveniles to different CCA/PVAS people, 80+ to Tropical Lagoon and about 50 to Western PA.

I'd be inclined to pull everything but the female if you want to max the chances for a large cohort.
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Mommy brain, then? Someone told me that!

I plan to do that when I get home tonight, assuming I have the energy. I'm still recovering from a day spent in the ER and another spent at the doctor's... long story, we're all ok, but I am not my usual frenetically multi-tasked self.
 
Becca

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Well, all of the fish in that tank basically swam into the net last night, and everyone had nipped fins. I'd say that Mamacara is very, VERY protective. This morning she still had a flower pot full of eggs.
 
Becca

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This morning I have a split batch - looks to be a good number of wigglers and some fungus coated duds. Mama is still guarding them with her life - this morning I saw her attack a plant that drifted by.

I added some alder cones to the tank to hopefully keep the fungus from spreading to the wigglers.
 
Becca

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She moved them, I think. It looks like she's guarding a clump of java fern that is growing out of a very porous piece of driftwood. She's still guarding, but the wigglers are not where they were before.
 
Becca

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This morning I couldn't find any of them. Got home this afternoon and took another look - FREE SWIMMERS following mom around the tank.
 
Becca

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They are so darn cute! I hope they'll take golden pearls until I get my microworms going again.
 
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