Breeding Altolamprologus calvus and raising babies

photodocumentation of 11 months keeping a group of these beautiful Tanganyiikan cichlids. A collection of video clips showing spawning, several groups of babies, both with and without the parents.
Table of Contents (Chapters) for the 9 min video.
0:00 - fish acquisition and tank set up
0:37 - 1st spawning
2:02 - babies in pvc cave at 15dps
3:32 - Babies left the pvc cave
4:17 - Hydra outbreak
5:13 - Second recorded spawning and attempt to raise fry
6:18 - Third recorded spawn
6:32 - another spawn
7:27 - Final spawn and removal of cave
8:17 - Calvus fry at 1.5 months.

[@majorbruster5916]

Great achievement getting so many fry, even if you had to remove the pipes. In the lake, calvus spawn in very narrow, tight crevices amongst piles of rocks and even in some of the larger snail shells. Once the fry leave the cave they literally just swim a few inches "around the corner " into the nearest crevices, thereby avoiding predation by any large fish, but mainly the parents who are the immediate threat. To prevent the male from cannibalising the fry, perhaps you might consider adding some additional cover to act as refugia into which the youngsters could retreat? Some small snail shells would do the job. Not 100% guarantee but such a measure would reduce your losses.

[@aquahobby1982]

Awesome documentation and lovely articulation.... loved it Neil.

[@jonsage5486]

Thanks for this video…..I need to save mine after watching this.
I’ve got 2 pairs who have both dropped babies 🙌🙌🙌

[@torgbr8169]

lindos

[@dylanmason1867]

amazing great video

[@michaelborkowski3333]

My female was deep in a pvc tube I got nervous I thought she was stuck. Should I have left her it looked like she couldn't turn around.

[@ritvijpatankar731]

Is that caudopunctatus and calvus together?

[@fatfishdesignzllc]

im near raleigh nc and would love to have some black calvus babies for my new set up. do you sell any fish?

[@DedyKurniady-bk3hj]

Size 2.5-3cm kira2 dikasih pakan apa ya om

[@michaelm5852]

😇 'Promo sm'