I know its a catfish...but so many of us have these guys mixed with our Africans It was super cool seeing these little guys swimming amongst the rocks....great fish to keep and worth every penny.
I agree...heres another video of some that are still small but its funny watching them eat pellets Look like little cuttle fish lol.Deeda said:Nice video, they are sooo cute when they are little. Congratulations!!!
Haha, yeah that's what surprised me. Mbuna are good hosts also but I agree that Peacocks are probably better I was getting pissed though when I'd go to strip a variety of fish that I was getting 15 bucks a pop per fry (30 fry x 15 = 450) and only 3 multitpunks would pop out lol.Eric_S said:Yeah, that's the easy way
Looks like Marconi has them in a tank full of mbuna. That's why I was more curious.
Just awesome I stripped a female one time within a couple days. I had some tiny yellow transparent eggs mixed in with the others. I thought maybe they were not fertile or premature...they still all turned out as little multipunks. Even from the little tiny egg, these fish are super hardy....great vidsDrgRcr said:I was thrilled the first time I had Multi cat fry from my wild group. I had different mbuna host the first three times, then decided to move them in with a group of Haps in a 75g. I consistently get new fry every 6 weeks or so, and since the beginning of the year, I've had 60-80 of them. I generally strip the female early, because the cats are voracious, and will sometimes consume each other if the food source(cichlid eggs) in the hosts mouth are consumed. Here are a couple of vids I shot of them after stripping the female. In this particular instance, I had stripped 31 multies and roughly 60-70 cichlid eggs just starting to hatch.
After stripping into a container
In the tumbler with some of the cichlid eggs. The eggs were completely consumed by the cats after 3-4 days.
After 1-1/2 weeks.
I've done the same thing a couple of times now. I generally try to wait until the cats hatch, but sometimes my date must be off. I just stripped 2 females again last week, one with 13 developed cats, the other with 10 cat eggs mixed in(7 survived). The big thing with them is making sure they have a food source, or they will start to go after each other. I always put some of the cichlid eggs in the tumbler with them, and they develop very quick.Marconi said:Just awesome I stripped a female one time within a couple days. I had some tiny yellow transparent eggs mixed in with the others. I thought maybe they were not fertile or premature...they still all turned out as little multipunks. Even from the little tiny egg, these fish are super hardy....great vidsDrgRcr said:I was thrilled the first time I had Multi cat fry from my wild group. I had different mbuna host the first three times, then decided to move them in with a group of Haps in a 75g. I consistently get new fry every 6 weeks or so, and since the beginning of the year, I've had 60-80 of them. I generally strip the female early, because the cats are voracious, and will sometimes consume each other if the food source(cichlid eggs) in the hosts mouth are consumed. Here are a couple of vids I shot of them after stripping the female. In this particular instance, I had stripped 31 multies and roughly 60-70 cichlid eggs just starting to hatch.
After stripping into a container
In the tumbler with some of the cichlid eggs. The eggs were completely consumed by the cats after 3-4 days.
After 1-1/2 weeks.