They're NOT sterile!!!!

[tjudy]

I was pleasantly surprised

this morning to find a brood of newly free-swimming Pel. taeniatus 'Nigeria green' this

morning. My pair is comprised of the lone surviving female and one of the five surviving males

from a box of wild fish that were so starved that most wasted away from extreme malnutrition. The

few autopsied hate internal organs that were so emaciated that I figured that even the survivors

woudl be too damaged to spawn. Great to be wrong!

Here is an image of the male.

I will hopefully have images of the brood later today.

http://webpages.charter.net/tedjudy/fish%20images/testB.jpg

[Lisachromis]

Wow!

Congrats!


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[bobrfish]

Those fish read about how

they were sterile.

They showed all of us they have the juice http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

Ted is feeling all warm and

gooey inside right now. http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif

[Marco Arroyo]

Hey, congratualtions,

add some photos as soon as you can, greetings

[vkfu]

Good thing those weren't

the two you decided to autopsy. http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[tjudy]

Here is a pic of the happy

family....

<img src="http://webpages.charter.net/tedjudy/fish%

20images/taen_nigergrn_P_fry1_0_sept28_001.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

[Marco Arroyo]

great photo,

congratulations you have an awsome family in your aquarium http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif

[number6]

any updates Ted?
good

survival rates? Healthy growth? second spawn? http://cichlid.ipbhost.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

[tjudy]

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THey are doing well. The first batch is in a ten gallon and are nearly

1/2". The parents have a very large second brood already... at least 40 fry. This variety of

P. taeniatus seems to be more fecund adn to grow faster than others.