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My established breeding pair of Amatitlania nanolutea have apparently taken a break from spawning. For almost a year, I was getting fry about every eight weeks. The last brood was the first week of June…over 90 days ago.
The good news is I had another Amatitlania nanolutea spawn recently. The bad news is that the brood was small and, once again, they were all gone in a few days. This is frustrating.
Video of Amatitlania nanolutea grow out tank (20g long). Video by the author.
From the “interesting behavior I noticed” department comes this little nugget for fans of Amatitlania nanolutea.
I posted in early August about the Amatitlania nanolutea that I picked up at the recent ACA convention. After a couple of months, they’ve settled in and have really begun coloring up.
Those of you who follow the blog regularly know that I typically don’t bother with live plants. The reason I don’t is that I have not been successful with them in the past. I can never seem to keep any plants from dying, getting covered in algae, or both.
Last year (2022) I posted about making some changes in the fish room. Specifically, I was planning to downsize, both in number of tanks and tank sizes. I also planned to begin working with some species I’ve never worked with.
A few months ago, I began to downsize and rearrange my fish keeping operation. One goal was to move a lone male Julidochromis dickfeldi out of a 20g long tank into a 33g long, so I could close down the 20g.
If you recall the post from April in which I revisited a previous post on cichlids and play, you’ll remember I pointed out that one of the two cichlids in my 40g breeder was moving pebbles. This is a weekly thing. Each week when I do maintenance on the tank, I put all of the pebbles that appear in the sand back in the pebble section behind the rock wall. And each week, there are inevitably five or six pebbles that end up back in the sand.