Archocentrus centrarchus 2.0

[Spine]

Ok...this is my second try at raising some A. cetrarchus.

The first pair I got to spawn ate all thier fry,then I lost them in the big blizzard.I was lucky enough to get another pair from the June meeting auction.

If you want well conditioned fish,just buy anything that George puts in the auction These badboys are huge, they didn't waste anytime spawning. I didn't notice the eggs until Wednesday but they could have been there sooner:wub:

 

[MonteSS]

Nice. Good luck this time.

My adult female is a lil under 4". Not sure why she stopped growing.

....Bill

 

[Spine]

Well,that didn't take long I've got a pile of wigglers already.
Momma's got them stashed in a potted plant she turned up side down.

 

[toddnbecka]

Nice clutch of eggs, don't blend very well with the wood though. I found the same thing earlier today in the 45 when I took it apart to net out a young pair of cutteri. A pair of Gymnogeophagus norte have a clutch on a piece of mopani wood. This is the 3rd spawn of the norte's (4 pairs) in the same tank with 3 (now 2) pairs of cutteri. One pair of cutteri have several dozen nicely-growing fry, now several weeks old, while the Gymnogeophagus fry disappear about the same day they become free-swimming.
I tossed a 6"+ Macana zebra knife fish into the tank earlier this week, hoping it will take down the cutteri fry soon. The parents have been a little too effective at protecting their fry from the other cichlids, though I think the little Akysis catfish have snatched some after dark.
I moved 100 1"+ cutteri fry into the 40 with the Carapo knife several weeks ago. He's been working on reducing their numbers, but they're meatier than the endler's and aren't disappearing very quickly. There are still around 75+ fry remaining in the 29 with their parents, and I have a large brood of oblongum fry (~200+) coming along in the other 29. Fortunately, the oblongum spawned several weeks later, and the fry don't grow as fast as the cutteri. Some will be moved into a 55 for growout soon, the rest will be feeders for the zebra knife.

Momma Gymno is the angry one facing the camera:

The zebra knife is semi-visible on the right side, taking advantage of the only remaining cover in the tank:

Momma fish was pretty pissed at me for disturbing everything, and went after my hand a couple times when I was putting the other pieces of wood back into place. I'd raise some of the fry if I had any tankspace available, but I'm overloaded already.

 

[jonclark96]

My centrarchus spawn about every two months. It is amazing how black they get when they are defending the clutch.

Good luck with the spawn.

 

[Jumbie]

Awesome bro!!!

 

[danger_chicken]

Nice clutch of eggs, don't blend very well with the wood though. I found the same thing earlier today in the 45 when I took it apart to net out a young pair of cutteri. A pair of Gymnogeophagus norte have a clutch on a piece of mopani wood. This is the 3rd spawn of the norte's (4 pairs) in the same tank with 3 (now 2) pairs of cutteri. One pair of cutteri have several dozen nicely-growing fry, now several weeks old, while the Gymnogeophagus fry disappear about the same day they become free-swimming.
I tossed a 6"+ Macana zebra knife fish into the tank earlier this week, hoping it will take down the cutteri fry soon. The parents have been a little too effective at protecting their fry from the other cichlids, though I think the little Akysis catfish have snatched some after dark.
I moved 100 1"+ cutteri fry into the 40 with the Carapo knife several weeks ago. He's been working on reducing their numbers, but they're meatier than the endler's and aren't disappearing very quickly. There are still around 75+ fry remaining in the 29 with their parents, and I have a large brood of oblongum fry (~200+) coming along in the other 29. Fortunately, the oblongum spawned several weeks later, and the fry don't grow as fast as the cutteri. Some will be moved into a 55 for growout soon, the rest will be feeders for the zebra knife.

Momma Gymno is the angry one facing the camera:


The zebra knife is semi-visible on the right side, taking advantage of the only remaining cover in the tank:


Momma fish was pretty pissed at me for disturbing everything, and went after my hand a couple times when I was putting the other pieces of wood back into place. I'd raise some of the fry if I had any tankspace available, but I'm overloaded already.

goodluck with the cutteri, I have a pair with wigglers that is actively claiming half a 180 from 20 other fish, half of which are larger than them.

 

[Spine]

Ok,it's been about a month since they last spawned and now they've laid eggs again. Last time all the fry got eaten,this time I'm siphoning the wigglers out and raise them.
They laid more eggs this time so hopefully there will be a bunch of them.