Population explosion P Liongior, M Estherae

[A Shaw]

These guys are on an unending breeding spree. These fish sacrifice weeks
of eating just so they can go at it again and again. In fact I'm certain
their growth has been stunted by their extra-curicular activities, they
are barely 2.5" long and haven't grown. I bought them at the same time
as a Venustus and that fish is going on 4". Asking for help trying to
reduce their urges without making their lives unpleasant. So far I've
doubled the population in my tank in the last 6 mos.

I've had difficulty selling them b/c they are the 2nd generation fish
from wild. I think the tank is pretty full as it is.

My 55G tank consisting of:
5 Pseudo. Longior Mbamba Bay (2M/3F),
5 Metriclima Estherae Minos Reef (2M/3F),
3 Pseudo. Flavus (1M/2F),
2 Melanochromis Johanii (2F),
1 Nimbochromis Venustus (?),
2 Synodontis Petricola (?).

Babies:
13 Estherae (2M/11F) + two more mouthfuls on the way,
3 Longior (1M/2F)

[battlelance]

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:25:32 GMT, A Shaw > wrote:

>are barely 2.5" long and haven't grown. I bought them at the same time
>as a Venustus and that fish is going on 4". Asking for help trying to
>reduce their urges without making their lives unpleasant. So far I've
>doubled the population in my tank in the last 6 mos.

With your combinations, your tank is simply a fry-factory. You'll have
to remove the males and keep the females, or the other way around if
you want to deal with aggression. Alternatively, you can just let them
produce fry and cull the fry as necessary.

Or keep a tank with a large jack dempsey or convict - they make good
fry disposal units :)

[NaCl]

Mix in south americans? never!

"battlelance" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:25:32 GMT, A Shaw > wrote:
>
> >are barely 2.5" long and haven't grown. I bought them at the same time
> >as a Venustus and that fish is going on 4". Asking for help trying to
> >reduce their urges without making their lives unpleasant. So far I've
> >doubled the population in my tank in the last 6 mos.
>
> With your combinations, your tank is simply a fry-factory. You'll have
> to remove the males and keep the females, or the other way around if
> you want to deal with aggression. Alternatively, you can just let them
> produce fry and cull the fry as necessary.
>
> Or keep a tank with a large jack dempsey or convict - they make good
> fry disposal units :)
>

[battlelance]

On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 07:06:07 GMT, "NaCl" > wrote:

>Mix in south americans? never!

I never said mix.

Keep a 33 gal with one or two very large convicts, oscars, whatever.
Anything you toss in there (shoes, clothing, wife, other fish) will be
chewed up and completely gone in a matter of seconds!

:)

[A Shaw]

battlelance > wrote in


:


> With your combinations, your tank is simply a fry-factory. You'll have
> to remove the males and keep the females, or the other way around if
> you want to deal with aggression. Alternatively, you can just let them
> produce fry and cull the fry as necessary.
>
> Or keep a tank with a large jack dempsey or convict - they make good
> fry disposal units :)
>

Hmmm... I did think of that (or something similar to that), but then I
thought it would make me a poor human being... Good alternate suggestion
though... I'll try raising the first generation and then from there on...
we'll let nature take its course.

Crikey, I just found another four swimming around in that tank... Aren't
cichlids fun? (or at least they are having fun... me, not so much.)

[T]

I keep one Convict in my community tank, I also keep a pair on EB Hap's
male and four females.. Apparently this combination keeps the population in
control.. Unless of course I take out the Mothers and let them let thier
brood out in thier own tank.. I don't think I would put another type of New
World cichlid in there with my Malawi's ( NOTICE I never said a pair of
Con's as they only need a moist paper towel to breed... ) If worse comes to
worse I have a Front that would be more than willing to keep the population
down as well ( also not a Malawi but closer than the Con..)

Tim..


"A Shaw" > wrote in message
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> battlelance > wrote in
>
>
> :
>
>
> > With your combinations, your tank is simply a fry-factory. You'll have
> > to remove the males and keep the females, or the other way around if
> > you want to deal with aggression. Alternatively, you can just let them
> > produce fry and cull the fry as necessary.
> >
> > Or keep a tank with a large jack dempsey or convict - they make good
> > fry disposal units :)
> >
>
> Hmmm... I did think of that (or something similar to that), but then I
> thought it would make me a poor human being... Good alternate suggestion
> though... I'll try raising the first generation and then from there on...
> we'll let nature take its course.
>
> Crikey, I just found another four swimming around in that tank... Aren't
> cichlids fun? (or at least they are having fun... me, not so much.)