A good day

**ciaossu** · 5th Nov 2010, 09:54

My Apisto caca SPAWN!. this pair has been with me for only 2 weeks and today i saw some fries swimming with their mama, YA they're able to swim now. will try to post some pics and video tonight or tmrw. cheers

qns: Do i leave the fries with their mama or should i seperate them?

**ciaossu** · 5th Nov 2010, 22:15

The Photo as promised

The Papa

The Mama and her fries

finally the video

sorry for the blur photo, im not good at taking photo

**mobile2007** · 5th Nov 2010, 22:53

Congratulation,ciaossu. It is always very interesting to observe how the mother fish caring her brood. Also, the male caca you got very beautiful finnage and very intense color.

Usually , what i do , remove the papa fish and let the mama fish handle the fries for like three weeks. Then, you can let them breed again. The caca will breed regularly once they started.

**ciaossu** · 5th Nov 2010, 23:19

thanks man, i think i will leave the male inside as the female didn't show much aggression towards the male so i guess it should be alright. anyway, thanks for the advise. =D hopefully, this batch of fries can survive =)

**Fingerling** · 7th Nov 2010, 11:14

Very nice! love the redness on the female as well. Great job. Do update on the fries. You can leave the male with the female or take him out. Depending on circumstances, some males ive seen actually look after the fries while the mum swims away foraging for food while some males stress the female out by forcing another mating sequence to take place.

**ciaossu** · 8th Nov 2010, 09:55

Originally Posted by Fingerling

Very nice! love the redness on the female as well. Great job. Do update on the fries. You can leave the male with the female or take him out. Depending on circumstances, some males ive seen actually look after the fries while the mum swims away foraging for food while some males stress the female out by forcing another mating sequence to take place.

Hi, thanks. i think i've lost some of the fries as i've quite busy this few days and unable to get some fry food and bbs for them. maybe they died of hunger. as for the male i've seen him picking up fries that has strayed away from its mama and splitting back to the area that is near their cave.

**stormhawk** · 9th Nov 2010, 03:33

You might want to cover your filter intake with a sponge otherwise you'll lose fry to the filter if it is a powered one. Congratulations on the spawn ciaossu.

**ciaossu** · 9th Nov 2010, 15:20

thanks

, yeah i've cover the inlet of the filter with a sponge. anyway, which FS has the most variety of apisto to choose from. plan to get another pair of apisto