A list of my malawis so far

yellow labs
elongatus chewere
alunocara fire fish
haplowchromis dayglow
malawi zebra
morri dolphins
copadichromis borleyi
pseudotropheus soulosi
labeotropheus trewavas mabumba red
f1 alunocara chilumba blue
f1 alunocara maluna
haplochromis crimson tide

f1 metriaclima hajomaylandi pemborocks
alunocara stewart grant ngara
pseudotropheus red zebra
pseudotropheus flavus
protmelas red empress
f1 labeotropheus travasae mpanga blue
the last set are what i just got at the auction on sunday

i nearly forgot the frontosa's

Hi Mick,
so you bought some of my fish yesterday.

yep just the bottom set of fish

which were yours

there were a pair of breeders the female didnt make it i think it got caught in the corner of the bag at some point it was still alive but didnt make it through the night but theres still the young ones and they will grow up

i have a breeding pair of yellow labs just waiting to drop her young shes got a bunch of gob stoppers in it by the looks

Mine were the large pombo rocks which I got from Dave at Nottingham about 18 months ago.
You also got some young mpanga blues which were bred by me. The parents were from Nottingham,
but from a breeder called Carl or Midlandsmalawis. both these guys advertise on AC.
I very rarely buy fish at an auction, because I like to know where they come from and I only took mine to the auction because my female front just spat this weekend and I also need room for my group of petricola.

latest on the yellow lads ive seen one of the fry its about 6-7mm long and mother was tring to catch up with it and it keeps escaping
:bounce: :D

them yellow labs fry have gone she had a gob full then i see one next day none carnt see any maybe the rest got them

kenny are these a male and female i got them at the auction at charles young centre wasnt sure if they were yours just one is a lot fatter than the other and one seems to be showing of to the other but both have the spots on the anal fin

Yes the Kakusa were mine and came from Nottingham. I had them from young for 18 months and they never bred for me, so am assuming that they were 2 males.
Could well be that a change of tank might prove me wrong.

how long to malawis generally hold their eggs and fry before realeasing them ?

frontosa, 28 days. others 21 days. I put them in a tank on their own before that.

ive got a few holding eggs and one looks like shes got young in her mouth at the moment as her mouth has got bigger but catching her in this tank shes in definatly wont be easy it could meen removing all the rock work and even then we have about 12 of the same speices so its catching the right one

If you let her spit in the tank. you have a good chance of loosing all the young.
I allways have a spare tank to put the female in.
I let the frontosa spit, but all my other malawis are put into a holding tank

thats what ill have to do i think when i get the fish house up and running that wont be a problem anymore

Another option I use, I have four tanks with breeding groups of various bristlenose and I let the Malawis spit in there. So the bristlenose are breeding and the malawi fry are to small to harm the young bristlenose.
I have had some young Malawis in one tank for over 3 months now and the BN have bred a few times without any trouble.

good idea that mate you should put it in the breeders section

my alunocara chilumba blues have just given birth to 12 new fry after i had to half empty the rocks out of the tank to catch her so the young would be safe for her to realese

i got 14 chilumba blues out of one female all doing ok in a net and just spent 2 hrs chasing 2 other females that have eggs in one and fry in the other i think they are the crimson tide they are in a tank on there own well the two in the same tank

well one of them eat the eggs the other haplochromis crimson tide realesed the fry and is lookiung after them not sure how many yet as when i go near they dart back in her mouth