The female will take food into her mouth during the brooding cycle, however, it may be to feed her fry as much as it is to feed herself. Once the spawn is complete, the female will hold the eggs in her mouth until the fry are able to swim and forage for themselves. The subdominant male will clamp his fins and lose his colour as a sign of submission.) After displaying for the female, he will attempt to lead her back to his spawning site by swimming away, but shaking his tail in a manner only seen during spawning. (Note if a male is shaking in the same way in front of another male, he is displaying his dominance. Once his breeding site is picked out and a female is ready to spawn, he will display by shaking in front of the female. This pit may be up against a large rock, or it may not.
He may, or may not, dig a pit in the sand down to the aquarium bottom. The male will select a breeding site, it will usually be on the sandy bottom. Red Top Black Bar Zebras are a maternal mouthbrooder. These Mbuna breed like rabbits, so if you provide many hiding places (many small rocks) in the aquarium, you’ll soon get an overcrowded aquarium. As they eat algae in nature, a vegetable diet with an additional protein snack (krill, mysis, artemia, chopped shrimp, … but NO animal meat!) every now and then is recommended. The fish is now a part of Herichthys, which is defined as cichlids that 'share a color pattern of short vertical bars and black spots posteriorly from the middle of the side, and a unique breeding color pattern in which the dorsal. The Red Top Black Bar Zebra Cichlid comes from Nakantenga Island in Lake Malawi, Africa.īreeding and feeding is quite similar to that of other Mbuna. The Texas cichlid was originally part of the genus Cichlasoma until this group was restricted to South American cichlid species.
0 kommentar(er)
