Suggestions for breeding Lake Victorians?

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Taking into account how many post that I have seen recently on Lake Victorians, I decided to start a thread on breeding for this lake.

Anyone with experience,knowledge, or even curiosity are welcome to post their questions and observations within this thread.

What breeds are you currently breeding?
What difficulties have you came across throughout the breeding process with these fish?

Thanks

Looks close to this guy:



"It's either an Anchor Point or Mwanza Gulf"

It does resemble him a lot. I am hoping that he has not yet matured.

not Mwanza

I would love to have that fish above that Hong posted... If anyone has a few, Let me know

The craziest thing just happened. I was moving my 20 long to make room for a 55 gallon and I placed my Lithochromis rubripinnis "blue pseudonigricans" trio in a 10 gallon.... When I went to move them back, I noticed that one female had a mouth full of eggs! Crazy! They bred in a 10 gallon.

Has anyone ever had this happen?

I will hopefully be posting pictures of Blue pseudonigricans fry in the next week.


How is everyones fry growing? Any ready for sale/trade?

Cool Fact!

I stripped a Sp. 44 and a rubripinnis awhile back but did not keep track of how long they were holding... so the rubripinnis fry still had egg sacks. Even though they would be okay, I decided to stick her with her fry and before I could do anything she sucked all the fry up... Even the sp. 44 fry. It was pretty cool.

A nice trick if you have a stubborn mother who will not hold.

Also, I just bought around 50 pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae.

Ya, I have heard of some vic moms holding others fry, its few and far between though.
I have an xmas fulu holding at the moment she is on day 3 and I am hoping she holds full term this time.
I'm still looking for a few ruby green females....

at times,, vics can be tough... all kinds of strange things can happen. MMmmm i have a tank of OBLiquen Zebras juvies. fry from awesome parents, you have seen pics of them... but started out with over 30 fry, still got 30fry except for the 8 ghoulish got, but guess what..... almost all males----- i think there are bout 4 females total out of the over 30....... WHAT GIVESSSS..... how could that happen????

I'm getting 25 zebra obliqus soon so If I end up short on males I can swap out a few females for your males.

Those Zebras were the first fish that I ever bred. I would be interested in some females as well.

I'm getting 1-1.5" for $2.50 each

Cool. Fern. Would you be interested in any of these pseudocrenilabrus multicolor victoriae?

Ghoul, you have a picture of yours? The pics I'm finding are all over the place with the colors.
Yall let me know if you want some of the zeb obliqus and I will get extras. Not sure if they are sexable yet so it may just be luck of the draw, I'm getting 15 of them to allow for spare males.

I will get pictures. There are 3 different color morphs. Bronze, Gold, and a metallic green. I have the golds I believe. They are around 1 inch so I am not sure yet.

How is their lineage? Do you have a pic of the parents?
Reading up on them they do sound like they would be a nice fish to keep!
How much are you selling them for?

I wanted to show my Nyererie Igombe Island in full spawning colors.



I uploaded lots of vidoes last night... lol

he is a beauty!

He's dancing but no action... his bark is bigger than his bite. I think the tank is too busy for them... gotta move them soon to get them to spawn.

That tends to be how it is with vics, they need their own tank to breed well.

I just watched my first mbipi mbipia spawn. Mouth full of eggs.

Very nice!

thats great!!!

Ghoulish_chaos wrote:

I just watched my first mbipi mbipia spawn. Mouth full of eggs.

Now we can start trading fish

Congrats!