Darkness' fish
 

OK, I've got to confess, my favourite hobby isn't playing Civilization 3. [blush2]



Should I run and hide now? ;)



I like to keep tropical fish.
I've got a nice tank set up as a Lake Tanganyika biotope and in this tank is a group of Paracyprichromis nigripinnis "Blue Neon".
And they're breeding now! :D

This is the dominant male:
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And this is his girlfriend:
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Note the size of the lower jaw! It's much enlarged due to the fact that she's breeding the eggs in her mouth.


Maybe not the biggest news in the world but I think it's really nice! :)

wow, nice!

how many species are there in that lake (by last count)?

Darkness, it must be quite special to have these fish mating and getting offspring! Any idea on how many of the eggs will hatch? What if say 30 fish hatch (lack of natural enemies?) won't your tank be too small?
How long till you know?

As for pets, this is my 4 year old cat. His name is Minibolle, as his fathers name is Bolle, and this was a small version of him when he was born. He likes to eat and hunt. These combine rather well in my area of town where mice and birds (used to) roam freely. His biggest prey was a 3 pound piggeon, but luckily his main diet are mice. As can be seen he is also rather fat and so he is on a diet, however what he does not get from me he gets from the neighbourhood. Oh well, he's happy.



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Is that a Neon Tetra?

Used to have tropical fish when I was younger.

Used to have a tank with various different kinds of tetras and a couple of male pink kissing gouramis.

Also various bottom feeders to keep the place clean, best of which was a (and I looked up the spelling) Plecostomus which grew to about 25cms!

Red tailed sharks finished off the mix.

Apart from the obligatory Angel fish [:p]

[goodjob]

Nice to see nice environmentally unfriendly fish still being kept around the world.

Melifluous

No, Meli. Neon tetra's are far smaller (about 3-4 cm). They're grey with a blue and a red horizontal bar. The male Blue Neon you see in the top picture is approaching 10 cm.

Gourami's and Tetra's are very nice fish but they wouldn't survive long in my main tank (wrong pH of the water and my current fish would likely kill them, as they are a bit aggressive). I've got a 3 cm Lamprologus ocellatus female that always tries to attack my hand when I clean the tank. Really fun. She cant bite very hard, but she knows exactly where to go: The soft flesh between the fingers!

@Killer: The current count is that there are slightly over 300 fish endemic to Lake Tanganyika, but new species are found every once in a while.

@KR: Nice cat!
Yes, it's really cool to have them breed! For this species the size of a spawn is usually between 5-10, so there's enough room (for now). I can always buy another tank.:D
Maybe my girlfriend wouldn't like that. She likes cats more...[crazyeye]

I'll be removing the female to a breeding tank though as there are fry predators in this tank also. Catfish of course! These are my favourite type of fish. Often extremely beautiful and very useful as well (they clean up the trash).
I'll try to take a picture of my rare South American catfish sometime. He's a member of a species that hasn't even been named yet, he's only got an indexing number. :) He's in my other tank and he rules it.

I put the female in my breeding tank last weekend and yesterday she released 6 young fish from her mouth. All slightly more than 1 cm big. Nice! :)
BTW: Dad didn't mind I moved his lady to another tank. He's already made a move on 2 of the 3 remaining females in the big tank. So there are more babies on the way.... ;)

Ahhh, I know how he feels![coool]

You're moving the GF out and making a move on other women now KR?????? [eek][:p]

[lol]


The female fish of these species are firm supporters of the idea of polygamy (since courting involves a lot of chasing with these fish and they do like to rest once in a while). I'm not sure your GF would agree with that though, KR? :D

lol!

btw, it's unfortunate that ProPain drowned one's private breeding tank fantasies [cry]
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