surprise

[DanL]

Over the past couple weeks I have been keeping a close eye on a pair of Neolamprologus Caudopunctatus that I recently bought about a month ago. I was pretty sure that I had a male and a female but wasnt sure...

well the past week or so the aggression level has dramatically increased and today when I got home I found 80+ fry swimming around the parents shell...

I tell you, getting 80+ fry that are under 1/8" out of a 72gallon tank is not an easy task. I siphoned them all out with a piece of airline tubing and took some really good hits on the hand from the male...

I now have 30+ L. Ocellatus "Gold" fry and 80+ N. Caudopunctatus fry growing out in a 10 gallon fry tank. I am think that I my need to pick up another 10 gallon tank...

just thought I would share...

[Tony7683]

congrats!! by good hits, does that mean blood? [smilie=c:

[DanL]

no, no blood, but definetly hurts more than a Ocelltas bite...

heres a picture I just took, not a very good one but these guys a small and I dont have a macro lense.
http://www.our-oasis.net/posts/lots_of_fry.jpg

the hole in the blue thing is about 1/8" diameter, the two larger darker fry are Ocellatus, the rest are Caudopunctatus... this is just one group of them, the formed 4 other groups like this in my breeder trap...