Tropheus Namansi Reef Firey Fry - Information Help

[myjohnson]

nice schooling. bout time you got in the game with some vids . more angles, less stationary would make the vid better. are those fry in there already?

They punk my lufubus on the schooling part. The lufubus will sometimes school for like 10 mins then just stop for a while then school again. But these namansi school like this 90% of the time. They even school more than my ulwiles. wonder what makes them do that?

More angles and less stationary: You mean walk around with the camera?

How do you add music to the background? Do you just jam it on a radio for something or can you edit the video (which is what I would prefer)?

Those are fry, but not tropheus. And you know I only keep two types of fishes. )

[cichlid1409]

well if you had some video editing software you could place the camera in different places and make seperate vids from each place, then edit them together if you dont want to walk aroud with it. i use cyberlink power director to edit videos and add music. i think windows comes with windows movie maker which is pretty lame but it works ok.

[peterp63]

Those are fry, but not tropheus. And you know I only keep two types of fishes. )

How they doing?

[cichlid1409]

Oddest thing is there is still no male holding down the left or right rock pile. That worries me. No terrority means no breeding, no matter what condition the females are in.

I might have to change the rock scape.

Welcome to any ideas. Fish don't breed means fish not happy.

maybe they want more places to hide . hows the aggresion?

[TaTeR ToT]

Yeah, I could drop the 2xeheim 2026 for 2x2028 also.

if you decide to get rid of these, hook me up!

btw, the namansi's are awesome!
i love the brichardi variants!
put me down for some fry!

[myjohnson]

well if you had some video editing software you could place the camera in different places and make seperate vids from each place, then edit them together if you dont want to walk aroud with it. i use cyberlink power director to edit videos and add music. i think windows comes with windows movie maker which is pretty lame but it works ok.

I'll dig around for some better software and see what's the deal. I'm put some chop and screwed old school "back to the kappa" stuff on the background, lol.

[myjohnson]

How they doing?

Retarded for the first 2-3 days. Didn't want to eat flakes or pellets. I wasn't to worried cause they clean the algae I had building up.

Two have turned to flakes and all are eating pellets now.

So all is good.

Again, thanks for hooking it up!

[myjohnson]

maybe they want more places to hide . hows the aggresion?

That's what I was thinking. Go with more of a cave type scape. Which would create more privacy. Aggression is here and there but a lot lower than your normal colony.

That's another thing, I have always notice that the more aggression there was then more breeding there was also....

Except when the aggression was stupid high, then you just might have some dead fishes.

[myjohnson]

if you decide to get rid of these, hook me up!

btw, the namansi's are awesome!
i love the brichardi variants!
put me down for some fry!

thanks Brian.

And yes brichardi is my favorite type.

[ddaquaria]

Right now (if I read correctly) you have 1 tank with 2 groups that are producing fry and another tank (the 75) that are not producing as a solo group. What are you doing different in the larger tank than the 75? For my namansi, I do more of a reef setup (I actually do this for all of my groups.) The reef rockwork has a high point and lowpoint, and currently all of my tanks have fry (anywhere from 5 to 10 - 7 alone in the namansi tank). The primary difference that I could pinpoint is the high traffic area where the tank is, but my own tank is also located at the entry way to the kitchen - so I don't think that conclusion is very reliable.

[myjohnson]

Thanks for the advice Donald. I'm give them another month or two and then change the rock scape if there are no changes.

I've only had these fishes for about 2 months and still need to condition the females. I'll try the reef scape next just to see how it works out.

Can you post a FTS of your nanamsi tank so I can see your scape?

[ddaquaria]

I'll do better than a picture. Lights are out tonight, but in the morning, I'll take some video. Pretty sure I'll be able to upload it once I get to work.

[myjohnson]

Cool, thanks Donald!

[myjohnson]

Last of the pictures Jesper took for me. I finally got them on Photobucket.

I need another photo session Jesper!

[Zulaab]

Mom has my camera right now. It might be a short while before I have it back. She is taking a photo course right now.. but we will see what I can do :)