Hemichromis Fasciatus spawn!

Pair is now 1 month old. Just came home yesterday and had eggs! First spawn. Sorry for crappy vid.

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pretty exciting. based on their white color the eggs look unfertilized to me. but it's always good to know you have a female.

A better vid.

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Eggs have hatched. This is somewhere between 72-96hrs after the eggs were laid.

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Fry are free swimming now. Move went good. Saved most the fry. Water PH at new house is 7.8. Old place was about 7. We'll see how this goes.

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2nd spawn!

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2nd batch of fry free swimming now.

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Most recent spawn from my WC H. Fasciatus pair. Started free swimming today.

Woke up from my nap and found this!!! Fry birthday is Halloween!!!

Those look awesome.  

Awesome!!!

Yay! Another batch!!! The female lives to lay again my friends!!!

Enjoy

Fasciatus swarm! Ton of fry! Lets hope the parents get along!

You know mom and dad are hoping a few die off soon.. my god look at all of em!

Momma guarding her fry. Put your hand in at your own risk!

Good lord, look at the size of that spawn. Absolutely amazing Will. Very beautiful fish.

Madness wrote:Good lord, look at the size of that spawn.  Absolutely amazing Will.  Very beautiful fish.  

Thanks!
I still have 3 fry left from my last batch if you're still up for them. I have to warn you that these will probably be the nastiest boogers you'll ever see.

Wow!   That is awesome!

Betty wrote:Wow!   That is awesome!

Thanks Betty! They are a very rare west african treat! To my knowledge, I am the only person on the inet with these guys and babies... With video's anyways.

Will I am wrote:SNIP I still have 3 fry left from my last batch.

3 left? I hope thats from selling donating the rest? If they are spawning on such a massive level I would think you would have more than 3 survivors out of what appears to be hundreds.

I have received probably close to 15 fry from will, and can honestly say that no fish I have ever raised as shown the aggression that these fish show each other even at the 1" mark! I went from 25 to 1 in a 125g tank in about a month and a half! Gdtying rhem to spawn is a real victory!

lloyd378 wrote:I have received probably close to 15 fry from will, and can honestly say that no fish I have ever raised as shown the aggression that these fish show each other even at the 1" mark!  I went from 25 to 1 in a 125g tank in about a month and a half!  Gdtying rhem to spawn is a real victory!

   lol

Darn fat fingers and lack of proof reading...... Meant "getting them"

Haha

I may still be interested, Will.

Quick update on my H. Fasciatus pair. They laid their first batch in my 90g. Will update soon!

That is awesome Will, they look amazing

  - I ran out of votes or I totally would have given a + 1 here! Beautiful!!

Thanks guys! I still have some fry around 2-3" if anyone is interested   

They look like a nicely bonded pair!  Crazy to seem them able to cohabitate

lloyd378 wrote:They look like a nicely bonded pair!  Crazy to seem them able to cohabitate

Haha! It's been a very rough road! Just before putting them in the 90, I had the male in a next just sitting in the top of my 180 (in a net). He was whoopin up on her pretty badly. I couldn't keep the fry alive so I'm pretty sure that's what his problem was. Let me know when you are ready to take the beast again, I have some around 3".

I'd love a solo male to go in my community central tank