...my convict cichlids' fry didn't actually all get eaten this time.
Usually the parents eat them as tiny fry. Evidently my chosen pair are better parents this time.
They're very, horribly, terribly, "will take on an oscar and sometimes actually win" aggressive cichlids and will bully or kill anything in a community tank. They CAN be kept with fast, semi-aggressive community fish like barbs and danios, but they'll kill and eat anything else.
So, yeah, I've got about 20 or so getting close to 1/2" convict cichlid fry if anyone wants any for pets or as food for larger fish (though I wouldn't bank on that; they're fast, and even this small are pretty aggressive).
On the saltwater front, everything is peachy.
The maroon clown is getting much bigger, and she killed the smaller domino damsel, but the other damsels are just fine (including the Yellowtail from Greg's place.
). The other, larger, domino damsel holds its own against the clown, just as the blue devils and yellowtails do.
That clownfish IS the boss of the tank though, even the blue devils back down from her.
I fixed our loud/broken powerhead with a bit of krazy glue to keep the #(*&$# part of the motor that kept falling off from falling off. It's just that stupid blue cap that keeps the metal spinning mess from banging into the sides of the unit when it spins.
The maroon clown has paired up and decided to host with the
chocolate chip starfish, of all strange things, so I don't think I'm going to bother trying to keep an anemone in there as it's enough work to spot feed the starfish so it leaves the two
green hairy mushrooms alone.
One thing that's got me perplexed though: After about a week or so, the water in the SW tank gets this multicolored 'oily' looking film on it. We can actually skim it off with a net, and it's gooey.
We're not sure where it's coming from or what it is, as we don't use cleaning products around the tank (or, if we have to, the tank gets fully covered), and I'd thought it might be because I'd been lazy and had gone back to flake food instead of frozen or raw, but so far that hasn't made a difference either.
I may try cutting flake food out entirely to see if that stops it. I know the split betta tank gets film on the surface if I use flake food more than one or two times per week.
For flakes, we generally use Prime Reef and Cyclop-eze wafers.
