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| Posted | Help! My yellow lab is holding |
| 14-03-2006 18:49 by Kate |
I need some advice please. i have just added juvenile fish to a new tank, and moved a bullied yellow lab in there as well. The lab has bred with an alounacara, and although she looks like shes ok i don't know if i ought to move her into a seperate holding tank, or leave her where she is. |
| 14-03-2006 20:25 by MC |
Kate, if you save the fry, what are you going to do with them all??
As hybrids, best let nature do its thing and leave her where she is |
| 14-03-2006 22:50 by Stephanie |
Yeah you are not gonna be able to do much with the fry so use them as food. First time Ive heard of Alunocara crossing with a yellow lab!!!!! |
| 15-03-2006 09:43 by Ray |
Didn't think Mbuna and Haps could cross,what were the juveniles you put in with her? |
| 15-03-2006 10:27 by MC |
Ray - they can, I've got some from a female socolofi & OB Peacock.
No colour waste of space etc |
| 15-03-2006 10:33 by Ray |
Live and learn,never come across that but dont keep Aulos.thanks MC |
| 15-03-2006 13:56 by Kate |
At the moment i have got a tank with alounacaras and red empresses, and a few other peachy coloured babies but i forget what they called. My neighbour breeds them and he ran out of tank space so i am growing them on for him. Normally i ask him for advice but he is away on a business trip for two weeks. |
| 15-03-2006 16:37 by yanton |
Kate, your lab could not breed with an aulonocara. The gap between species is too wide.
Haps and peacocks sometimes cross with other haps, mbuna sometimes with other mbuna, but there are limits. your lab must of bred with another mbuna somehow, or she is holding her own unfertilized aggs (which would be bvery unusual). |
| 15-03-2006 17:09 by MC |
Yanton - I had two fish in a tank undergoing treatment, after a week the female was holding and eventually spat out a load of fry.
There was nothing else in the tank apart from these two fish and I can assure you she was not holding before going in, infact I didnt think she'd make it. The female was an Ps Socolofi and the other, a male Aulonacara OB. Maybe the male being a hybrid may have helped in crossing the divide I still have these fish as I was interested to see what resulted, unforunately nothing, they are drab and the only colour is specs of blue in the right light. They are basically Mbuna shape but fins and heads have Aulonaca similarities, but thats where it end. The fish are now 2-3" and unfortunately due for the knackers yard. I have refused on many occasions to pass these fish on and have learnt that even waiting to see what turns out, your best disposing of any hybrids at the earliest opportunity, I have 25 fish to dispose of. |
| 15-03-2006 17:28 by yanton |
MC, never heard of that before - i stand corrected  |
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