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This is where you can find updates on all the CAST species spread out around the USA. All users will post there pics, videos, ect right here.

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also moister from the tank can be an issue in the long run

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i hope he lives! where'd you get that basket? looks handy. i have a breeder fry box but that one looks nicer.

I picked these up for my pond years ago, I think at Lowes, by the pond stuff. They are used for pond plants.

Update: Our little guy in the basket did not make it. He jumped out and was beat pretty bad.

Has anyone had this happen to them? Last night I was missing 1 of the 4 Greenwoodis left. I looked all over for him (4 are males). OMG he was in the plastic tube that covers the air hose in the sponge filter. I have never had this happen. Now he is in the basket that I covered with window screen material, grrrrrr. He is swimming around fine, but his eyes are swollen. He was in that tube, head first and who knows for how long. No more than 24 hours, since the last feeding.

These boys desperately need some females!

Weekly update:
Male getting larger with more color
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The other four have this coloration so maybe I have one male and 4 females
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Looking great!

My male has started to chase away 3 females from the front of the tank and lays on his side and wriggles sometimes bouncing off the sand substrate for the fourth who just hovers and watches...maybe signs of breeding.

He has really colored up with the two fins on the underside almost jet black.

Thats great!Hopefully they breed soon!

Since I have bred only Endlers, Kribensis, and Swordtails so I am new to Cichlids...if possible, should i move the holding female to her own tank?

Its up to you.Some people do and some don't.I leave the females in the original tank and just srip them when there ready!

i put them in there own tank if ones available if not they stay in there

I use to remove the holding female to the release tank transporting her in a plastic container some ppl remove the males too
good luck with the breeding

Still hoping to get some female Greenwoodis for my Boys. Can't breed with out them, LOL.

Anyone have any for CAST yet?

Thanks,
Zuly

Bad new, I lost my mail yesterday...he was not breathing hard or anything except he did keep to a cave and did not come out as aggressively to feed the last week. My water parameters seem fine except that when I tested the water, NitrAtes were near 40 so I have changed my water change routine to keep it under 20. I am getting some small juveniles, about one inchers I think to hopefully get another male...any ideas?

Anymore updates? I will update mine also.

I will update when I get home with pics. I don't have any females, I'm going out 6 and hopefully I get at least one.

Last Thrusday, I got 8, less than one inch, Crossbar Yala Swamps from Michigan...after the 24 hours, only four left, two were missing, two half bodies floating arround and one with a nipped tail...now, five days later, I still have the four and it looks like I have one male for sure and probably a second...final ratio is 2 males, 6 females. They look active and healthy, especially when they are in a tank with 4 large females...3 inches.

Our 4 Velvet Blacks are doing great. They are all males for sure and are coloring up nicely. I had to seperate them because they where beating each other up and I didn't want to loose any more.

They are doing well in the community tanks untill I get my hands on some females.

Keep me posted if anyone has females available for CAST.

Thanks,
Zuly

Good to hear zully! I hope to have more this spring.

Aspencer, I have more coming , A bunch around .75" Will send you some on the house b/c you are trying so hard. We have to reward the honest hard workers!

Cory, I appreaciate that but for now, the tank seems good...two small males holding their own and two females all around one inch...the four females from you are now almost 3 or more inches and looking great...here is a look at my tank...seems like plenty of hiding places...
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Tank looks great Aspencer!

Looks A+!!!

Here is my first video...the four large females from Kory....four juveniles, 2 males and 2 females from Michigan, gvsailor who posted here a while back.

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Looking great! I have many more on the way

I guess I have to rely on the experts to tell me how many I should end up with in my tank.

I use 4 gallons x fish for breeding but is not a gold rule