Unknown Fry

[JMatthew]

Well - my wife was complaining about the the 56 Gallon Column in the bedroom waking her up and so I had to move it today. Upon moving one of the two females SPIT! About 13 to 14 fry total. However, it's a pretty mixed tank with only two females so I'm not sure who the mommy and daddy is!!!

There are two females (that I am aware of for sure) in the tank. One Kenyi and a Tropheus Brichardi.

There are two male trophs in the tank. A Green Murago and a Brichardi. Hopefully if these are troph babies they are not cross with the Murago...

If they are from the Kenyi, the only other Mbuna is a Johanni. However, the other fish include a pink peacock, red empress, borleyi, german red and blue ahli. Any, I suppose MIGHT be a daddy.

The fry seem to have somewhat large eyes. The majority of them are pink in coloring right now with a few darker with vertical stripes...

What does everyone think (besides I need to rearrange quarters for a few of these fish...)

[cichlidkeeper]

it will be impossible to tell until they are grown out to about an inch. its very likely the trophs could have crossed, its never a good idea to mix variants or even species of trophs. hard to tell on the kenyi, so lots of things could have happened...

[JMatthew]

Yeah - when I got the trophs I didn't think and I figured the likelihood of a 2 male a 1 female ratio of producing spawn was highly unlikely. To top it off, they were apparently housed together before I got them with out any spawing. Go fig...

[h0ngkn0t2]

Your description of the fry lead me to conclude they they are classified as feeders. :exactly:

[JMatthew]

LOL - I'll likely grow them out. See what happens ;)

[fishman76092]

My money is on 'pink peacock' x German Red. Aulonocara have large eyes and this cross would lead to some pink and some dark barred fish with large eyes. I know you only have two females-but I'm thinking your pink peacock may be a female? Looking at your photo album, your pink peacock does look like a possible female-the photos arent close up of it. As for the German Red-is it pictured in your album? I see a male Alonocara (or two) in the photos. Nothing you have looks like a German Red-they should look like this if its pure:

[JMatthew]

I have no idea what sex the pink peacock might be. It is the smallest fish in the tank, however that could be a good call as it has been maintaining to on small portion of the tank for several weeks - just hovering around like many mommies do.

Yeah - my German Red is definately pure. Looks just like that - guess he was a little camera shy.

I also have another fish that is simliar with feature and color to the German Red, but not quite the same.

http://www.dfwfishbox.com/forums/production/picture.php?albumid=544&pictureid=5490

Not sure what he is, but they are definately different fish. The Red Zeba and the Yellow lab mentioned in the album have been gone for a little while now so it doesn't seem likely they are parents.

[h0ngkn0t2]

Off topic: What kind of rocks are those J? Looks nice.. I like it.

[JMatthew]

Blue Granite - 35 cents a pound down at the local quarry distributor. Normally they just round down for me to since I'm not getting hundreds of pounds like most of their buyers.