We'll Let Them Stay This Time

[phishphorphun]

This is my first post in this forum folder. I never have considered myself a breeder, so I usually just post pix of my babes in the photography folders. Since I now have successfully bred a couple hundred fry this year, maybe I'll start to participate a little more often in this area.

Anyway, as the topic title hinted, I'm planning on letting the last hatch of Lamprologus stappersii stay in the big tank to see how well they growout. I think this is the sixth brood this year from the same pair. I have removed four of the previous hatches and am currently letting the fifty to sixty-plus (?) fry grow out in three small tanks. A previous brood I left in the big tank were doomed for sure because of the A. Calvus and A. Compressicepp that shared the tank. Now that they are gone, a few of the little shell dwellers may have a better chance to survive. We'll see.

Oh, most of you who know me, surely know I can't make a post without a few photos. Here are some shots of the shelly's fry in their shells.

June brood:

August brood:

October brood (the current experiment youngins):

While this may be my first post here, I have a feeling it won't be my last. :happy0180:

 

[daniel4832]

Bobby,
You are a breeder, add in your Tropheus, still considered a very difficult fish to keep much less breed, with all the other fish you have bred, that is quite accomplishment. Kudos my friend! :lol:
Thanks,
Daniel

 

[DeeCee]

Congrats Bobby - and as always - nice job on the pix! I really like that 3rd photo!
Having fry in the house always gives me a warm-fuzzy and I could just watch them for hours!

DC

 

[Pat Kelly]

Congrats the Fitty. You soon will have bred more types of fish than me. Getting close.

 

[phishphorphun]

Thanks for the words of encouragement folks.

Now for an update of my experimental brood of L. stappersi. The brevis have taken over that shell and no sign of the fry. Just took a couple days to tell me that the chance of survival, in a contained area with so much competition, is not good for the little shellies. I think if the brevis were not in the equation, survival rate would be longer.

 

[longstocking]

Congrats Bobby ! Yes, you are a breeder... there is no doubt about it ! And a good one at that !