Cutteri Cichlids have spawned...

I got a pair of CutterI Cichlids of a friend 2 weeks ago,
a week later they had spawned in my tank,
needless to say my friend wasn't impressed as he had
been trying to spawn them for 2 months.
but that's fishkeeping I guess..


The parents that spawned 5 days ago...






You can see a couple of fry to the left of the female
just beside the drift wood, the rest of the fry are hiding
in the substrate...






To try and show how well they are camouflaged here's a close up
of the substrated, if you look carefully you can see the fry...

 

Beautiful mom and dad, and such teeny babies.
Congratulations.

 

Beautiful cichlids.

 

great looking fish!! lucky guy

 

Wow we love them here too. Very kewl looking. We had Jade eyes or blue eyed cichlids here once. Our female looked more like yours but with the jade eye coloring. She was a mix I think.

 

HI Allie, these cutterI cichlids are know as blue eyed cichlids,
the Sajicas (T Bar) cichlids I used to have were jade eyed
i'll try and find a pic or 2 of them for comparason

 

Yep my cutterI did the same thing went from a friends tank to mine and spawned right away. Maybe that's the trigger to get them to spawn - move them from one tank to another
Beautiful little fish and the fry are so sweet. Hope there's nothing else in the tank with them Mine killed some of their tank mates then one of my males got killed. Mama did him in
Carol

 

I have them in a 100 gallon with some large clown loaches
and some young Nics that I am growing on.
so far all is well but I'll keep a close eye on developments.

 

Cool sounding tank! They might do the Nics in if their small enough. Let us know how it goes
Carol

 

Allie here's a pic of a Sajica for reference...






Carol, the Nics are about 3.5" so hopefully should be fine.

 

love that fishies face!

 

carol, the Nics are about 3.5" so hopefully should be fine.

cool! keep us posted on how they are doing. they are such cuties.
carol

 

HI Allie, these cutterI cichlids are know as blue eyed cichlids,
the Sajicas (T Bar) cichlids I used to have were jade eyed
i'll try and find a pic or 2 of them for comparason

These are what we had:

 

Ok Allie cheers.

 

Actually here are some pix of our fish we had:
Dominant male


Sub dominant male




All 3, female too

 

Good looking fish, so did you sell them on?

 

now tell me these fish aren't all the same fish species?? cause allies fish don't look like macro's fish? or did I get lost in this thread LOL

 

Good looking fish, so did you sell them on?

Yup they got super aggressive just like convicts. The guy we sold them to had them for a year or so before he sold them off. They bred like crazy for him.

 

now tell me these fish aren't all the same fish species?? cause allies fish don't look like macro's fish? or did I get lost in this thread LOL

Similar but not the same
Here's macros species which is more rare around here.

& mine were


Here's all of that type:

 

Allie here's a pic of a Sajica for reference...






Carol, the Nics are about 3.5" so hopefully should be fine.

Very similar.

 

neither of those links look like the fish in the beginning of this thread....so I guess I got lost

 

now tell me these fish aren't all the same fish species?? cause allies fish don't look like macro's fish? or did I get lost in this thread LOL

No not the same species Shawnie.