Use To Be An "all Male" Fishkeeper...

[phishphorphun]

...those were the good olds days.

A few years back, I came to the conclusion that I didn't have the room to breed my cichlids and properly grow them out with the space allowed. So, I decided to enyoy keeping all male peacocks and haps from Lake Malawi. It was the wise thing to do. :angel2:

It has been a blast taking photos of them mature. And, sharing their beauty and aggression with my friends, has been all the gratification I have needed.

That's how it's been for last five or six years.

Then, a few months ago, I made the decision to get "more involved" with my hobby (thanks to the wonderful folks I have met here), and bring a few females into the mix. You know, a more natural invironment for my fish.

Now, I have 30some A. Maylandi fry, an AER female spitting and retrieving her fry, and to make things worse...I look into my tropheus tank, where I have four cyprichromis leptosoma renting space, and one of the cyp females is holding.

With the "all male" haps and peacocks setups life was sooooooooo much simpler. :unsure:

I think I may have recently mentioned somewhere else, I have added two 2 1/2g fry tanks and a 5 1/2g growout sitting on top of the microwave (that sits on top of my beverage fridge) in the fish/laundry room. :wacko:

Well, on the positive side, I guess I'll have some new and refreshing subjects to photograph. But, the negative, I don't have any room for more tanks to hold additional baby fish.

Goes to show. No matter how much we think we mature and can rationalize our limitations, the devil is still among us. :FIREdevil:

 

[myselfdotcom]

...those were the good olds days.

A few years back, I came to the conclusion that I didn't have the room to breed my cichlids and properly grow them out with the space allowed. So, I decided to enyoy keeping all male peacocks and haps from Lake Malawi. It was the wise thing to do. :angel2:

It has been a blast taking photos of them mature. And, sharing their beauty and aggression with my friends, has been all the gratification I have needed.

That's how it's been for last five or six years.

Then, a few months ago, I made the decision to get "more involved" with my hobby (thanks to the wonderful folks I have met here), and bring a few females into the mix. You know, a more natural invironment for my fish.

Now, I have 30some A. Maylandi fry, an AER female spitting and retrieving her fry, and to make things worse...I look into my tropheus tank, where I have four cyprichromis leptosoma renting space, and one of the cyp females is holding.

With the "all male" haps and peacocks setups life was sooooooooo much simpler. :unsure:

I think I may have recently mentioned somewhere else, I have added two 2 1/2g fry tanks and a 5 1/2g growout sitting on top of the microwave (that sits on top of my beverage fridge) in the fish/laundry room. :wacko:

Well, on the positive side, I guess I'll have some new and refreshing subjects to photograph. But, the negative, I don't have any room for more tanks to hold additional baby fish.

Goes to show. No matter how much we thing we mature and can rationalize our limitations, the devil is still among us. :FIREdevil:
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hah great story..maybe i can take some fry of you

 

[Laxison]

If nothing else, the fry ought to become a good source of income for you! (If you choose to sell them, of course!). Or you could donate them to the group for auctions and to help raise money for the club! (that one's for you, Pat )

 

[phishphorphun]

The fry are neat. And, I probably will have them around for a while...you know, at least until they become juvies.

Disposing them is no problem. But growing them out is what I'm taliking about :wacko:

Like I said...just more fun photo subjects.