jags spawned

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I really was expecting to see more aggression in that tank. You have some serious bruisers in there and they are doing fine. Congrats on the jags gettin' busy!

holy jesus... thats a TON of eggs.. congrats on the spawn. if you need any brine shrimp eggs to get going to feed the babies let me know. youll get better survival rates and faster growth using the fresh hatched stuff. i even have some left over supplies to build another one. (hatcher that is)

I think the aggresion stays down because of the scape... there is just to many places to hide. Of course there is chasing, but for now all is well. When the eggs hatch the male jag will go ape.. so I will be divideing it in a few days. But until then I am happy with it. I was really shocked that I dident lose a single red devil. I was assuming at that size to get 6 or 7 and I would end up with 2 or 3... nope they are all doing well super active and not scared of the big guys at all. Thanks for nice words guys.

Anthraxx, I don't care about a good survival rate.. really, what am I going to do with 1000 fry... most of them will be feeders within there first few days of being free swimming. Thanks for the offer though.

fish_n_vw wrote:I don't care about a good survival rate.. really, what am I going to do with 1000 fry... most of them will be feeders

What will you do with the fry? Do you raise any out? Just one of those questions a guy asks when he is trying to figure out what to do with his tank... and his buddy has fish...

Very well done VW. Thats all they needed to get it done.

I plan on raising growing out about 30ish. I will probably find the best looking male, and get rid of the rest.

You know something VW. And I am sure others will agree. Ever since you got on this baby fish African kick, we dont hear much of you any more. Let me know when you start selling your man fish.

Oh no.... I'm not goin anywhere. I have just been super busy. I have a few tank stands to build. I have another tank to reseal. I just haven't had much time to post. I have also been working a crap load of overtime because my company is moving to another building. And I hav been researching some of my new fish (africans) to make sure I can care for them properly. I have always wanted to do tanganyikans, and now I am. But that dosent mean I'm not still keeping my centrals. After the holidays I plan on getting some altifrons from gage, in a group buy.... I have plans just not tanks. I really needed to find something to do with these three little tanks I have, something to keep me busy while my new big guys grow out.please don't make the mistake of assuming I am going anywhere. I will be on even less in december because we will be working mandatory 6 days a week 12 hour days. But once that's all over. I will be on again a lot. I'm still here and I still try to read every post. I just don't have much time to respond most of the time.... your just mad cause I don't like umbees

fish_n_vw wrote: your just mad cause I don't like umbees

We'll see.

One mans umbee is another mans Jack Dempsey.

DMD123 wrote:One mans umbee is another mans Jack Dempsey.

That just about sums it up.

Alright, video time.

I have seen mels videos... they seem like alright fish... just nothiing to write home about. There only one color. I'm. Sorry, I. Just don't think there that cool.

This has been one of the funniest things...

Just like my thought on festae, that only the female fish look good!

We all have our opinions!

Brichardi are only 1 color.

madness wrote:Brichardi are only 1 color.

But they have that cool little mask, which makes them mysterious...

My Umbee has a mask, it just looks bigger cause he is 12" and the Brichardi is barely 2.

Just face it you will never get vw to think your Jack Depmsey, I mean umbee is cool.

He is just anti-umbee

My brichardi have yellow on there cheeks.

Oh, and in my opinion, festea are the best looking SOUTH american cichlid. I think they look better then the dwarfs (apistos and what not) and discus, and peacock bass. My personal favorite south american.

Here is the beast and his beautiful, colorful female.

Very nice Jack Dempsey you got there.

They dont even look alike. And why do you keep calling them that? Did I miss something?

You must have... look at the umbee thread that was started 3000 years ago. it all started there. I said there over sized dempseys that lack the red line in there fin.. its cool, for you... not my kinda fish. Only has one color although I have never seen the black in the female fins.

vw's exact words were: "Dumb thread.... three words OVERSIZED GREEN DEMPSEY..... I'm sorry it was going to come out adventually....... umbee are not cool, at all!!!!! They are one color, just one... at leas the common dempsey or geen terrors have a second color... maybee one day madness' umbee will change my mind. But as it sits right now umbee are boring."


Just playing along, madness that all!

How come we dont have an emoticon that flips people off. Dempseys are lame, GT are stupid, Umbees are bada**, your whimpy fish are lame like cupid.

I will agree dempseys are lame... but I strongly disagree about green terrors.. have you ever seen a 12" male, sporting a nice nupital hump, with a bright orange, long, flowing dorsal fin that trails over an inch past its bright orange tail? If you haven't your missing out. One of my favorites, but like your old gramodes, I don't think I will ever get one that compares to my old guy. Truly a stunning fish had him when I was 15. Tried to grow out another really good looking male, but he jumped when he was about 6". Haven't found one as good looking since. Look I just don't think umbee are that cool. Maybee when your guy hits the 18" mark, and I might be impressed, but really its one color. I mean a female convict has more color variaty.

africans FTW. discussion over. admin please close thread

Mikey, is not going to close the thread. This is what a forum is all about. And africans are cool, but only the ones from tanganyika. So be a little more specific next time.

i was just trying to be a jerk. lol thanks for ruining yet another bit of humor.
your like the humor police VW.. Edit!