Crenicichla Compressiceps?

[nkambae]

I hope to be receiving some of

these soon (thanks Ken/fishfarmusa!) and will be keeping them in a HEAVILY planted 55g. Any

experiences you all could relate and or advice you could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

and may your day go swimmingly!

stu

[vkfu]

I've tried to breed them

but they just eventually all died. I had a ripe female who would always display to a nice male,

but he never showed any interest. Conspecific aggression is a big problem but a heavily planted

tank like yours should help. There is a thread on cichlid-forum where another poster gives some

information about his unsuccessful experiences with the same fish. There is also an old BB article

about compressiceps (sorry I don't remember the issue). Hope your luck is better than

mine!

[fishfarm]

Francine Bethea has

bred them, she is Mscichlid here. PM her, Great lady. Ken

[nkambae]

Thanks to all. I'll check it

out.

stu

[fishboy20]

I actually managed to get

them to spawn earlier this year but all the eggs were infertile. I have 5, originally 8 of them.

They fight lots and lots even in a 100 gallon 6' tank. The best thing for them seems to be to

provide them with several rock piles in the tank.

The female seems to be the one that

picks the sight with the males fighting over her. I think this is when I lost a few of these. The

female managed to lay around 80 eggs on a flower pot that was resting next to a pile of river rock.



Here is a bad photo of the eggs I ended up pulling and place in a tank of methylene

blue.