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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.
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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.
As a cichlid keeper, planning for new fish is always exciting. About the only thing more exciting to me is setting up a new tank or re-doing an existing one. I have posted over the past few months about wanting some new fish and my various plans for my fish room. In fact, I had hoped to have this all done by now, but life got in the way.
Following up on my post from January about another nanolutea spawn. Sadly, all the fry disappeared over the course of about five days. What started out as about 50 wrigglers, got whittled down to two in short order.
My A. nanolutea spawned again. Though I wasn’t certain until I saw the fry about a week ago, I thought the female was sitting on eggs. Why?
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 anticipate there will be considerable changes to the fishroom over the next couple of months, but I am not certain which direction I’ll go.