Many aquarists that you use for maintenance of the cichlids in the aquarium because of various shapes and colors. A long time ago, is enough to consider them in the aquarium is not enough, this tilapia fish fans want their own. In fact, the maintenance of cichlids is interesting to watch because of the behavior of parents and is very well organized, the activities that can be selected. Cichlid attitudes of parents, including parents' care in one of three categories: open brooding, dark cave, and Mouth brooding.
Most African countries are cichlids mouth brooders. In other words, are women, African Cichlid egg in their mouth. First you need to settlement. Often when a woman is ready to mate cichlids, cichlids all very aggressive and men more often against them. Or, if you only have a few, who in May will be aggressive in the case of one woman who stress and mortality. Instead, you 3. May women to every person in the tilapia. Who will not spend the chase occupied several men with the women and allow women the opportunity to work during hunting playback.
The breeding colony of African cichlids love have a good atmosphere with lots of caves, stone, rack and column can be in the region and their reproduction. Do not bother, they all function as aquarium plants, they will be removed from the cichlids. Equally important is to eat, and African cichlids bring context they breed. Spirulina flakes, and is in the earth is a very good quality of the diet of African cichlids.
When the reproductive male and female fighter, a clutch of dance, in trémousse against women. Women who are laying, and then looking in the mouth. Male will fertilize the eggs. The whole process is repeated until the women lost interest in hunting and other men's women's livestock, and repeat the process again.
Non-fertilized eggs are eliminated. Women will continue to be fertilized tilapia eggs in the mouth until they slip. This process may take three to five months.
To baby cichlids living in Africa, it is important to have a woman to a smaller tank, before the baby is born cichlids. If not, adults eating cichlids. When the baby is born, the baby in the spawning fish before eating cichlids mother.
Cichlids for the baby, you can eat with a fine powder in food flakes. Meanwhile, the woman is good they have cichlids health before they return back into the tank. Also try to keep the children with cichlids the same size, because they are afraid to eat!
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Neolamprologus Leleupis are beautfiul long and slender Lake Tanganyika Cichlids usually seen in the hobby with bright yellow colouration. They have very large mouths for a small fish and have impressive fangs that can be seen when viewed in front. They were introduced to the hobby in 1958 (Riehl & Baensch, 1985) and since then was (and still is) considered as one of the all-time favourite African Cichlids in the hobby. Leleupis remained rare for quite some time due to some misconceptions on their natural habitat preferred water conditions and breeding behaviours. They were first collected from soft and acidic waters in Zaire and were kept in purest rainwaters - The softer and more acidic the water was, the sooner these fish died. Nevertheless, they flourished the hobby around the early seventies when they began to breed Leleupis in large numbers.
Leleupis are adored by hobbyists not only because of their bright colouration and elegant slender form, but also because of their parental behaviour. They are usually yellow, where their nickname "Lemon Cichlid" was basically derived from, and have some irridiscent bluish or greenish shades along the mouths and / or the gills. They do not have strong sexual dimorphism -as males and females usually have the same colour intensity - except that the males grow siginificantly bigger (sometimes even twice the size of the females') with thicker heads and may develop cranial bumps and longer pelvic fins.
There are a couple of color morphs that can be seen in the lake. The yellowish orange variant is signifcantly more abundant, but the colours silvery-beige and brownish-black are frequently seen in the same habitats. Although the darker fish were identified a bit earlier, they were classified together with the yellow morph. Researchers found that the darker morph have the same yellow pigments as the brighter ones who happened to just be lacking the dark (dark brown to black) colouration.
In the wild, Leleupis are normally found from 5 to 40 meters deep around rocks and rubbles in the lake feeding on aquatic insects, crustaceans and invertibrates. They are solitary species and are relatively peaceful but can be very aggressive towards conspecifics, both males and females, except for the preferred female, during breeding season . They can form monogamous pairs and nuclear families while tending the fry.
Neolamprologus Leleupis are a sight to see in an aquarium. They add more life to your setup with their bright colour, handsome form and intelligence. They are not difficult to keep as long as their requirements are met - which are not much - like a good water condition, proper housing and a varied and healthy diet.
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