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Handcrafted ceramic breeding caves for large and small Cichlids and Plecos SouthCentralCichlids.com Cich c Steve Hallgring | Nancy Villars/Hallgring i Port Monmouth NJ 07758 Email sccichlids@aol.com | 732.787.0654 AMAZONAS 82
Successfully outwitted: a brooding female with fry in the rearing box. After three days the larvae hatched and wriggled at the far end of the clay pipe, which was set at a slight angle in the substrate and open at one end. After another four days the little ones swam free and followed the female around the tank. There were only around 20 of them, and their numbers decreased each day until they had all disappeared after about a week. For a long time, I have refrained from taking eggs or fry away from species that practice brood care in order to guarantee safe rearing with the maximum number of young. But in the case of such a rare species as the Playayacu Dwarf Cichlid, I wanted to be able to share the juveniles with a number of enthusiasts as soon as I could, so I reached into my box of tricks. Outwitted With good feeding, the adults spawned again several weeks later. The evening before, I had observed the male swimming around in front of the breeding cave with the female and tentatively performing quivering movements. The devoted togetherness was over by the next morning and the female was chasing the male all around the tank, a sure sign that there were eggs attached to the ceiling of the cave once again. This time, too, the female tended the clutch very reliably and was soon guarding a little heap of wriggling larvae with red yolk sacs. I carefully siphoned them all out with an airline and placed them in a glass rearing box suspended in the parents’ tank. There were more than 120 larvae, a surprisingly large number of fry for a female of her size. Before long the mother, robbed of her brood, came closer and eyed the little ones with interest. After two days the yolk sacs were used up and the larvae swam free. The female stayed next to the glass box and guarded the brood. The young reacted to every twitch of their mother and did all the things that they would have done if she were leading them around the aquarium. The fry were still able to follow their instincts, but the protective glass box ensured that I wouldn’t lose any of the brood. REFERENCES Kästner, N. 2005. Ein neuer “Zwerg” aus Kolumbien: Apistogramma spec. „Caquetá”. AKZ-News, 1/2005: 45–47. Römer, U., J. Beninde, and I. Hahn. 2011. Apistogramma playayacu sp. n.: Description of a new cichlid species (Teleostei: Perciformes: Geophaginae) from the Rio Napo system, Ecuador. Vertebrate Zoology 63 (3): 321–33. 83
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