New pics, Colony and Fry : )

New picture of the layout, I have added so many rocks. lol
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Good shot of the dominant male, got one other just beginning to color
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Here he is eating some delicious seaweed. mmmm yummy!
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Kind of a group shot.
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Fry shot.
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another Fry -- This guys is almost half an inch already. Living at the top of the tank seems to help.
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This is one of my typical fry hides. I have several small piles of 2" river rock where the females can spit. The females keep hiding algae wafers in these fry caves. Pretty awesome.
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Wow, you are seriously doing a great job. You got that dominant male from me right? It had to be at the beginning of summer? Dang, well nice work!!! Tank and fish look great and healthy!!

Yep it's your'n. lol.. I can't wait to get my peacocks in this week.

Yeah that's be awesome

Wow Looking good....I hope my tank turns out as great as yours!

Thanks man! I am sure you will have an awesome tank of these guys in no time.

Looks good! If you are looking for some F1 Saulosi, let me know. My guys are just beginning to color up and I will be cutting down to 4 fish soon. I have 10. I'm gonna keep the dominant male and 3 or 4 females.

Definitely, I will take any females if you have them. I will have some males to re-home soon myself.

Wow, tank and fish look nice. I was amazed at how many of mine were males. It seems like every time I removed one, two more would color up.

Do you remove all the rocks everytime you do a water change
or when you vaccum the sand?

Yeah I take all them rocks out half the tank at a time to vacuum the sand. I am gonna make a flexy suction thingy to solve that though. Although I do learn something about how to stack the rocks for their use each time.

I bet moving those rocks all the time confuses the hell out of them..lol

It does, I wont be screwin with em for a bit though cause the fry are all over the place. I really do need to make a flexi vac.

Hey Spy, keep me in mind when you go to cut down your colony, I'm looking to put some F1's in my show tank as well.

Cense, that's one seriously nice looking tank, and the saulosi are obviously enjoying it!

Updated shot with about all the dang rocks I think well fit. left side
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right side
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So as of last night I have about 6 fry living in various places around the tank. Most of them are still living in the lil piles of rock. The rest have moved into cracks between rocks or in them. Thanks for all the compliments. You guys are awesome.

Looks very nice! What size tank is it?

55G

I'm impressed all those rocks make it look bigger not smaller!

This is my fav tank, I spend to much time with it, My gf thinks something is wrong with me, lol she's right though.

Probably My BF knows I'm crazy with my fish

Great set up, you're both nuts, I've seen ferns rock piles !!

I do large piles with a few large rocks... I don't want to spend all day catching a holding female or cleaning the tank.....

Fern wrote:I do large piles with a few large rocks... I don't want to spend all day catching a holding female or cleaning the tank.....

I know, I was exaggerating Fern I used to pile them to the roof, and I really think the fish love it that way, but my 30 something back doesn't like to lift too many rocks these days

Ya, I hear ya on the back thing. I go pretty much bare minimum on rock now because of my back too. The big rocks I make my BF move

Lol, lucky him