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Fundulopanchax puerzli Dibeng (Yabassi)
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Overview
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| Obtained F0 (Wild) 2 trios in July
2002. The fish are all young, ranging from roughly 2" to 2 1/2". They
arrived looking very much like wild fish. What they did to a large number of
daphnia and blackworms corrected that problem in short order. This picture
is of one of the males four days later. I have each trio in a five
gallon tank, gravel on the bottom, sponge filter, sinking mops, some peat,
lots of plants. One tank is 70 F, the other is 77 F. Water has TDS of under
100, pH of 7.2 |
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| Feeding |
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| The fish seem to be very happy with
a diet of newly hatched brine shrimp, daphnia, mosquito larvae and
blackworms. The first
food they ate when I got them was daphnia. I think the movement triggered
their eating at first. Blackworms and mosquito larvae are definite
favorites. |
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| Breeding |
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| 8/14/2003 I really should
have updated this area a long time ago. Breeding has been very easy. A pair
or trio in a 5 gallon tank along with gravel on the bottom, a sponge filter,
some spaghnum moss or peat, couple of sinking mops, and a big load of java
moss. I feed baby brine shrimp and blackworms. Frozen brine shrimp when I am
out of blackworms. Daphnia about twice a week. After about three weeks fry
appear.
As the fry grow up, I net them out to another tank to grow out. Or if a
lot of fry, I net the adults out and put them into another tank set up the
same way. With the original two trios I have raised up about 40 F1's. The
F1's are now generating lots of F2's while the F0's are still producing. Sex
ratios are more or less even.
As the fry grow up and sex out, I split them into 10 gallon grow out
tanks, putting males in one tank and females in a second tank. So far I have
not been able to detect any washout in color or appearance with the three
generations I now have. These are nice big very brightly colored fish.
No problems with the females getting beat up. |
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