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My first pair of cichlids: julidochromis transcriptus bemba a couple of ?'s

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Has anyone kept these? And if so, what is your experience with them?
I'm having trouble finding a profile. I'd like to find out about breeding conditions.
I think the pair may be spawning, but i'm unsure as i've never kept them before. They kinda share a cave a lot of the time rubbing each other aqainst the rocks, when they're not chasing off the red tail shark in the tank. \
Any information would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance
 
#2 ·
Has anyone kept these? And if so, what is your experience with them?
I'm having trouble finding a profile. I'd like to find out about breeding conditions.
I think the pair may be spawning, but i'm unsure as i've never kept them before. They kinda share a cave a lot of the time rubbing each other aqainst the rocks, when they're not chasing off the red tail shark in the tank. \
Any information would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance
When breeding, they share a cave. Be careful not to move anything around in the tank or move their cave, as this can break the pair up. They, as cichlids do, are pretty aggressive when spawning.

Here is a link that has some info on breeding them, not sure how right they are, but they are wrong on removing the matched pair.
Julidochromis transcriptus

And one more:
armkes.com - fish pages - Julidochromis transcriptus "Kissi" Bemba

Good Luck!!
 
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@ Las Colinas Cichlids thank you for the link and advice.

@ aunt kymmie thank you for the compliments. We think they are beautiful, they are black and white and when they stretch their fins they are blue/bright purple at the tips...it's just lovely. My LFS is amazing. They had this pair in with some another pair of a different species. They were marked for 12 bucks a piece i got the pair for 20 because they are cool like that. Also i had my lovely bride with me and she really liked them(boys always like to make the girls happy).

If they turn out to have fry and you haven't found any by then i'll let you know and ship you some when they get to the right size. I just have zero experience with them, so it appears i have plenty of research to do.

I'll try to get some pictures up of them very very soon. I have pictures of my new planted tank(45 gallons) up on the aquariums tab,the a but not of this tank yet, there's still some plants i want to add to the setup(java ferns on some driftwood).
 
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Has anyone kept these? And if so, what is your experience with them?
I'm having trouble finding a profile. I'd like to find out about breeding conditions.
I think the pair may be spawning, but i'm unsure as i've never kept them before. They kinda share a cave a lot of the time rubbing each other aqainst the rocks, when they're not chasing off the red tail shark in the tank. \
Any information would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance
I have kept basically the whole family of Julidochromis from Lake Tanganika when I was in Calgary Alberta Canada. I do not know your water parameters as to hardness, ph etc. and other things going on in your aquarium. Julidochromis are basically rock cichlids that love a lot of hiding places in the tank for the young.

The Julidochromis Family can raise their young in the tank by themselves they tend to be a lot like the Lamprologus Brichardi family by raising fry together as a group. Imagine older brothers and sisters raising the new group of fry.

When Breeding and looking after their families Julidochromis can be very agressive towards other species a good idea may be to remove the shark in the aquarium as they may kill other tank inhabitants including other cichlids.

The Transcriptus is often known as the Masked Julie

Here is some really good information on The Transcriptus.

Fish Profile for Masked Julie (Julidochromis transcriptus)

The Bemba part is the Population terms of the area of which the individuals were found in the lake. There are many different populations of various Tanganikan Species that have different names for the area of the lake that they are collected.

Here are some great video footage of the Lake Tanganika that is on You Tube.. For an idea of their ecosystem

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Hope this provides you with information :)

Fan4guppy but I raised african cichlids for many years in the hobby :)
 
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@ fan for guppy

Thanks for all the useful info and video links. I have my tank setup with lots of caves and i removed the RTS yesterday. The julies have excavated some sand close to "their cave" forming semi walls around it. The p.h. is 7.6 and tank has been established for the 3 years with the julies coming last month and then producing fry this month. I have another thread going where i hope to track the growth rates of the fry. Thanks again for the info
 
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@ fan for guppy

Thanks for all the useful info and video links. I have my tank setup with lots of caves and i removed the RTS yesterday. The julies have excavated some sand close to "their cave" forming semi walls around it. The p.h. is 7.6 and tank has been established for the 3 years with the julies coming last month and then producing fry this month. I have another thread going where i hope to track the growth rates of the fry. Thanks again for the info
I will give you a little tip on Julidochromis that I learned too in regards to the chemistry, it has got to do with optinum water parametres that has to do with their breeding and fry. If you noticed on the link that I provided earlier they tend to like higher ph values around the 8.2 to 8.4 so you may want to find a way of buffering your water to this level without causing level spikes and falls in your water. Which is about half way in regards to the water chemistry parameters given on that chart. I would not do this with their current spawn but keep this in mind for future spawns and adjust the ph up slowly through probably the means of adjusting chemical hardness and salinity.

I also had believe it or not Valsneria in my tank with some aquarium Salt added but this would involve knowing your Carbonate Hardness involved in maganesium and other mineral levels.

As I said before when in Calgary I kept these fish as they adapted so well to the hardness and water parametres of that water.

I do wish you luck with the Julidochromis Transcriptus :) The species is one of my favorite Julidochromis...
 
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