Altolamprologus
Calvus Black
Thank you Cichlid Press and
Ad Konings for allowing me to use your pictures.
This is such a great looking fish, I have not had any luck breeding
this fish. I did have 4 and I am down to only one, so I guess breeding
is out of the question at this point. I feed this fish flake flake
food and cichlid pellets and it seems to be doing great. This
fish loves to eat fry, so if you have breeding fish in a tank and you want
to save your fry, move him out. I got these fish online from Armkee's(see
links page). I set up a show tank at a local store and the last one of
these I had, went to that tank.
Tank size: 75 gallon
Tank Temp: 78 to 82
Tank pH: 8.0
Fish size when adult - Males = 6" (15 cm) & Females = 4" (10 cm)
BREEDING INFO:
Substrate spawner. Female will select a spawning site, usually a small
cave or recess in a rock too small for the male to enter. As the
female lays her eggs, the male will lie over the opening of the spawning
site and release his sperm to fertilize the eggs. The perimeter of
the spawning site is vigorously defended by the male, while the female
remains with the eggs until the young become free swimming. Upon
becoming free swimming, the juvenile should be fed live baby brine shrimp.
Spawns may number up to 300 eggs. It is hard to tell the males from
the females in this species of Cichlid. There are two ways of telling
Male from Female. The male is larger and has a taller Dorsal fin
when adults. The other way is Venting, see the link below for information
on that.
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