My 240gallon journal

[newb]

interesting

[myjohnson]

fine with me...as long as they are breeding again. They just took the month of september off from mating...not sure why though. during september I had one female showing a mouthful but that disappeared about two days later. now I got two holding! good to know things are back in order.

This same thing happens with half the colonies of tropheus I ever had.

They would breed really good for a month or two and then than a month for two off. Than they will breed again. Just a normal cycle.

[gotticgs]

should take about a month for algae to start plus it also depends on a number of other things other than light

you also have to be quick during water changes otherwise it will dry out and die believe me it does not take a long time for it to dry out, you might get white patches on your back wall where it dies

second thing is how often you do water changes = removing nutrients

third thing those trophs will keep it mowed like a baseball field don't expect anything longer than a 1/8"

fourth about after 4-6 months you will get this brown/dark green algae and they prefer the green stuff but it still looks cool!

its cool sometimes I will see like 6 of them side by side, work there way up and down a wall in sequence its pretty cool!

[newb]

fine with me...as long as they are breeding again. They just took the month of september off from mating...not sure why though. during september I had one female showing a mouthful but that disappeared about two days later. now I got two holding! good to know things are back in order.

[cichlid1409]

looks female.....





seriously though, no way to tell unless vented. some of my most colorful fish are female.

[newb]

pics of holding fish

[newb]

pics/video are being downloaded now

[TaTeR ToT]

yeah, old MH don't really do anything but heat up your water.

New lights whether it be CF, T5, VHO, or MH will be a big difference compared to used ones.

+1, i replaced my used mh bulbs for new 15k's and wow, within 3 days, everything was covered in algae.

although that tank busted

so now, im waiting for algae to startup in my newer tank.
i figure with 500watts of mh light it shouldnt be long

[myjohnson]

yeah, old MH don't really do anything but heat up your water.

New lights whether it be CF, T5, VHO, or MH will be a big difference compared to used ones.

[cichlid1409]

no algae yet...??? I dont get it...unless they are eating it before I can see it. yep female I guess. I removed most of the nerite snails to see if that helps get more algae growth. I had about 12 of them in there and they can REALLY clean some rocks quick.

whats your photo period? how old are the bulbs? i just changed the bulb on my halide and MAAANNN what a difference.

[myjohnson]

no algae yet...??? I dont get it...unless they are eating it before I can see it. yep female I guess. I removed most of the nerite snails to see if that helps get more algae growth. I had about 12 of them in there and they can REALLY clean some rocks quick.

It's the petros bro. They really cleans things up if you have good numbers of them.

[myjohnson]

so the weirdest thing has just happened...my biggest really colorful "Male" is in the middle of the tank holding a huge mouthful right now. Cant believe I missed this the whole time!

I have read of two reported claims that male tropheus may hold eggs. No pictures or video has been produced.

EK was one of those.

Vent the fish and take pictures/video.

If they are sharing the burden of breeding in this way....then you are seeing a major evolutionary step in tropheus right before your eyes.

[newb]

no algae yet...??? I dont get it...unless they are eating it before I can see it. yep female I guess. I removed most of the nerite snails to see if that helps get more algae growth. I had about 12 of them in there and they can REALLY clean some rocks quick.

[cichlid1409]

does that mean its a female? how the lights doing ? getting alot of algae?

[newb]

so the weirdest thing has just happened...my biggest really colorful "Male" is in the middle of the tank holding a huge mouthful right now. Cant believe I missed this the whole time!