Fundulopanchax fallax Fifinda Yellow
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This is one of the larger Fundulopanchax. Not quite as large as a Blue Gularis, but a little larger than the puerzli and spoorenbergi. A great fish. Definitely a bottom peat spawner. I do not have any luck with getting any eggs to 'just hatch' in the tank like will happen with a lot of other fish. These eggs definitely need to be dried for 4-6 weeks before they will hatch. There is a orange version of this fish that is quite amazing to see also. Some of these have been showing up in some commercial shipments, and they have been really nice looking fish.
Housing and Breeding

I set these fish up in pretty much my standard peat spawning setup. I use a 5 gallon tank with a sponge filter, gravel and plants. For spawning I add a margarine or CoolWhip size container with some gravel (to weight it down) and peat. The very front of the tank will have no gravel or just a very thin layer. I try to get the food to land in this area, making cleanup easy. I will leave the fish in for about 3 weeks. Then it is time to collect the eggs, or at least the peat. I will take out the plants, catch the fish, and then take out the margarine container. With the tank now pretty much torn up, I will stir up the gravel and do figure eights with a brine shrimp net to gather any eggs that are in the gravel. The net will collect all the goo in the tank, but with a light touch of a finger I can feel in it and feel if there are any eggs. If so, I will dump the stuff into the container with the peat.

By now the tank is truly trashed. Time to clean the sponge filter and the tank glass, syphon out nearly all the water and replace it with aged water at the right temperature. Then I restart the tank with a new container with peat, the plants, and finally the fish. This whole process takes about an hour. The fish are now ready to go again, and hopefully I have some eggs on the peat.

The container of peat has the water poured out, and all the peat, hopefully with eggs, is dumped into one end of a plastic shoe box. I tilt the box so the water drains to the opposite side. After a while, lightly pressing on the peat will push out some more water. When the peat is just barely moist and no more water can be pressed out, I scoop it up and put it into a plastic bag. A label with the fish name, the date and if I know for sure there are eggs gets attached. Rubber band the bag and it goes into a box up on the shelf. Storage for me is mid 70's up on the top shelf in the basement.

I will pull out the peat and wet it in a plastic shoe box in 4 weeks. If nothing hatches, I will redry it and wait another 2 weeks and wet it again. If fry hatch out withing 24 hours, I will start feeding them baby brine shrimp. An airstone is added to be sure the water keeps moving. Small daphnia will be added to provide snacks and water cleanup.The fry will stay in the plastic shoe box for a couple of weeks depending upon how many there are. Quite often I will then move them to a bigger plastic sweater box . A small filter will be added. As the fry get still larger, they will end up in at least one 10 gallon grow out tank.
Foods
Adult fish are fed live blackworms, daphnia, some baby brine shrimp, mosquito larvae, and frozen brine shrimp and frozen bloodworms. Not all at the same time, of course.I feed blackworms for about 3 weeks, then the frozen brine shrimp and frozen bloodworms for 1-2 weeks. Then back to the blackworms. Mosquito larvae and daphnia are fed when available. Baby brine shrimp are added to the mix when I have a lot of shrimp and all the smaller fish are full.
 
Not the best picture, but it does show the wonderful colors of this fish. This is the male of a breeding pair so the finnage is a little ragged. This male is 10 months old and roughly 3" or a little more.