I would love to have some Caudopuncs! But my cousin is breeding them and we try not to overlap too much with the species we have. I do however now have Gold Comps (not Gold Heads) in the fish room which I purchased a couple months after filming this fish room tour! They are growing up nicely and have featured in some of my monthly fish room updates since then.
Your channel popped up on my feed and I was so excited as I’m looking to set up a tanganikan tank. Get video. Really enjoyed. What type of sand do you use?
The tanks are 2 foot long x 2 foot wide x 14 inch high. Low profile for the tangs as most prefer a large footprint over a tall tank. I'm located in Sydney, Australia. Thanks mate, glad you liked them ✌
Really appreciate your videos with the good videowork, no rushing from tank to tank👍🏻! It is really nice to watch your tanganyika room. Will follow your journey here on youtube🙏🏻
Hola desde Australia Víctor. Todos los acuarios en la primera hora están en un sumidero. Los acuarios de la segunda hora tienen filtros de esponja de dos cabezas. Cambio el agua de todos los acuarios una vez a la semana. If the translation didn't work, here is the answer in English! Hello from Australia Victor. All the aquariums in the first hour are on a sump. The aquariums in the second hour have double headed sponge filters. I change the water in all aquariums once a week.
Fantastic video! I’m fairly new to lake tanganyikans and I have a new found appreciate for altolamprologus thanks to you. The tip about keeping pvc pieces instead of shells in the grow-out tanks is ingenious, thank you!
Thanks for that mate, glad you enjoyed the video ✌ really glad you have taken a liking to Altolamprologus because of my content! Pleases me to hear that. Glad you also found the pvc tip useful. Makes life a whole lot easier when it comes to catching your fish!
Cheers Ed, glad you like them mate ✌ I think Tanganyikans are pretty underrated. What Tangs do you keep? each row in my fish room has the same size tanks. 4 footers on the bottom. Low profile 2 footers on the middle. And 2 footers on their short ends on the top row. All up I have 32 tanks.
@@JasonsCichlids great setup. I have 80 tanks all sizes from 5 to 265 gallons mostly Tangs and fancy shrimp. I also am breeding trets, multis, leleupi, dickfeldi, albino julidochromis transcriptus and regulars, maleri, chalinochromis, & aulonocranus dewindti. Now you peaked my interest into calvus and compressiceps.
Wow 80 tanks. Great range of tank sizes to work with there too. And a very nice collection of Tangs you have. Interesting that you have successfully bred Trets. Not sure if you have seen my many videos on mine spawning but then my numerous failed attempts to raise their fry? They are my nemesis fish haha. But awesome that you're now thinking of getting into Calvus and Compressiceps!
@@JasonsCichlids with the trets they lay eggs but i have yet to see fry. I have them in a 265 gallon tank with sexfasciatus, dickfeldi, and chalinochromis. Might have to move them to my 100 gallon to breed them. They are 4” in size along with the sexfasciatus.
Ohh ok yeah thats the same as me. I spawn them but am unable to raise the fry so far. I get them to about 2 weeks old and they die. I left them with the parents the last time and the fry disappeared. Not sure if they need more practice. Probably best if you move the other fish out of the tank. But just make sure the male doesn't take all his aggression out of the female, see how you go keeping some dither fish in there with him.
Great to see quality home grown content. Was wondering how you remove the small occy gold fry from tank. I’m thinking turkey blaster but curious. Also what dimensions are your breeding tanks I can’t gauge the dimensions with the camera angle. Your setup is really incredible. Regards Duzzy🇦🇺
Hello Darren, cheers for your comment. It is really easy to remove the occy fry from their tank as they tend to not rush to the the shells at a young age. Just use a net but I would wait at least two weeks to move them out though. I have found their survival rates drop if you move them out earlier, but your situation may be different. They were in a 2 foot x 2 foot by 14 in tall aquarium. Thanks, glad you liked it!
There are fishroom tours, and there are ,fishroom tours that floor me....Jason I’m nearly speechless, I’ve seen many many of your vids, and just when I think it won’t get better than that and B AM! I cannot say which species you have that I like best, they are all just that good. I guess if I wanted to see you breed a new group of fish, it would be some South American apistogrammas, that might make a fun project for you! Congrats on topping 1k subs, honestly it amazes me your not well into the thousands god knows you’ve earned it mate👍🏻👊🏻 Thank you so much.
Thank you so much mate, really means so much to me to hear you enjoyed the video as much as you did! Also glad you like the collection of Tangs I have! It's funny you say I should try Apsitos. My cousin Adam has personally said the same thing to me too because he has enjoyed breeding his. Thanks again mate, I am amazed that I have so many supporters as it is and I am extremely grateful for each and everyone of you. Cheers mate! ✌✌✌
Another great vlog Jason. Thank you 👍 I would like to see you have a try with neolamprologus caudopunctatus. I think they are an awesome fish and stunning to look at.
Thanks so much Paul, really glad you enjoyed it ✌ that is a great suggestion. I have always really liked Caudopuncs! I agree stunning lookong fish and I have never kept them. I haven't seen many around for a little while now, they seem to be a tad rare at the moment. But they are definitely a fish want to give a try.
If you live in Australia I recommend AllFish2U. They are a great Aquarium shop in Sydney that's ships Australia wide. They also stock my Tanganyikan Cichlids.
Hey Jason, nice videos I just found your channel and subscribed. I was under the impression it's quite difficult to source cichlids in Australia due to the quarantine protocols. I know when I was there and in NZ the selection I'd seen in the stores was pretty abysmal. You've seemed to find a good selection of species. Is it possible to get any wild caught fish there?
G'day mate, thank you for the sub, much appreciated! To source cichlids that are already in the country is fine, most aquarium stores stock at least some sort of cichlid, be it your most common types like Electric Yellows or Blues or "Mixed Peacocks" which are always hybrids. But that's a topic for another day. Sourcing rarer cichlids can be a challenge through aquarium stores but most of the time I get mine at cichlid club auctions. I am not sure about the import laws here regarding all cichlids however I am aware of a new law where we have been allowed to import Electric Yellows from the wild, so F0. Not sure if it's Australia wide or not but it is for New South Wales. I have seen F1 fry for sale numerous times before but I am not sure if they are legitimately F1.
Update on my Gold Calvus fry. They are approaching 1 month and I am taking precations to not cause any shockwaves in the water. They are doing very well. I have not been able to count them all as they are in a tank with brown gravel and they blend in well. From what I can estimate I have about 20-30 fry from the 1st spawn. I am feeding them crushed flake, Crushed Cichlid pellets, fry food, and mising in some frozen brine shrimp. They seem to get small gowth jumps after I do a weekly water change. I am doing smaller water changes. Probably not necessary to do weekly, but they seem to love it when I do as I see them much more active after. I am lucky in Texas we have deep water well water that is almost identical to Lake tanganyika parameters so PH stays consistant. I took the lid off after seeing your video where you lost fry from vibrations in the water. So far though mine do not seem to show any stress even when I do a water change. My pair are captive bred from the Dallas area so I think that may have something to do with how well they are doing. I removed the male 3 days after spawn and the female after the fry left the shell and were free swimming all over the tank. I have the fry in a 29 gallon tank. I have a 75 gallon Tanganyikan community tank I moved the male and female to.
That is a great update mate! That deep water well sounds absolutely perfect to have for Tanganyikan Cichlids! Very fortunate to have access to such good water! Glad you don't have to go to the lengths I have been with your fry, such as not having to worry about the clinking of lids, etc. Keep up the good work with them and you'll have a continuous supply of calvus to sell.
Try putting 1 shell 🐚 in it will make it easy to catch you just pick the shell up and shake them out into the shipping bag very easy to drop any extras back in the tank
I really don't like the shaking of the shell with fish in it. Having PVC does just as good a job of replacing shells in fry grow out tanks and its just as easy to catch the fish.
I've been looking for a channel that is focused on Tanganyikan fish and that has regular content for quite some time now. I'm so glad your channel popped up on my feed! I would like to suggest that you put more lights on top of your tanks when you're making videos cos it's hard to see these awesome fishes in those poorly lit tanks. I'm so looking forward to watching more content from you!
Really glad you found my channel mate, I hope you like the rest of the content I have here and find it useful. Thanks for the suggestion too. The LED light bars I purchased are pretty narrow for 2 foot wide tanks, will definitely keep this in mind for future videos. Cheers again mate!
That was thorough. Good to see that things are coming along. No caves for the peppermint bristlenose? You said you were selling can you tell me where the club is would like to attend. Congratulations too
Thanks Tony, much appreciated mate. No caves for them yet, just been relying on the drift wood for now but I will make some for them soon. Going to do my terracotta saucer caves for them, be interesting if that kicks them into spawning! Yeah I am selling fish at the Illawarra branch of our Cichlid Club. Auction starts at 2pm on 13th Feb at Koonawarra Public School in Dapto. But, if you would like to purchase any of my fish specifically feel free to email me at jasonscichlids@gmail.com
Thanks everyone for your support! I should mention, if you wish to purchase any of my fry please feel free to email me at jasonscichlids@gmail.com I also now have an Instagram page which you can follow here: instagram.com/jasonscichlids
@@cnance1972 As in Lepidiolamprologus elongatus? Yes, see them a bit actually. Actually uncle has a very nice breeding pair at the moment! You had a breeding pair back in the 90s too, they were very rare back then in Sydney so that would have been a great pair to have!
You've been a huge inspiration to me, I love your content and everything you do! I'm starting a channel and just order a bunch of stuff to start my first fish room! Thank you so much for everything you have done! God Bless and Much Love! ✌️
As always awesome video, Need some suggestion, what will be the suitable tank for breeding species like chalinochromics ndobhoi, neolamprologus mustax. Will 20 long 30x12x12 (inches) will be sufficient.
Excellent channel. It’s always nice to see a good solid Tanganyikan collection. If I may add a species suggestion or 2…….anything Cyathopharynx or Cyprichromis. I’ve been keeping Tangs for 20yrs and those 2 have been 2 of my all time favourite genus to keep. Kept many over the year. I’d imagine a bit more difficult to acquire in Oz. They’re always rather difficult to get here in Canada as well!
Thank you very much Karl. Great suggestions, I really would like to get either if those or both if possible. Especially furcifer. I used to see furcifer around a bit a couple years back but haven't in a while. Cyps are a little more common depending on the type. But yeah correct, they are on the rarer side of tangs in Oz too. Need more tanks!
@@JasonsCichlids I used to keep Cyp sp. “brilliant jumbo” Kitumba and Moba, Cyp microlepidotus “Kiriza”, Cyp. Coloratus “Kalambo”! Those were on the rarer side anywhere and still are. I kept a few locales of the bread and butter leptosoma from Mplungu, Utinta etc. Cyathopharynx need 6 foot long tanks and a species only tank to really show their colours but they do well in mixed tanks with Cyprichromis also.
I was going to but then decided not to. Originally i was just going to have them growing from the corner cut-out of the glass lids. But it would make catching fish difficult. I did consider potting them to control root growth but then I don't think the aquascaping would look as nice.
Awesome collection, so much variety in there. Quick note, I notice some sort of high pitched buzzing coming from some parts of the video. The intro was clear, but the moment the gold occies came to the camera it started up again... Keep up the great work!
Thank you, glad you like the collection of fish I have. Damn really? You're the second person to mention a high pitched sound on the videos. But I unfortunately can't hear it at all. Thanks for the feedback on that mate. Cheers!
Question about the leluepi? I have yellow ones. I can't find any orange ones where I'm located. Is it just a color difference or does it mean something more?
There are many different types of leleupi colour morphs ranging from yellow, orange, brown, grey and even yet black. All coming from different locations in Lake Tanganyika. I have only ever seen yellow and orange leleupi with the other colour morphs being rare. Hopefully you will come across some nice orange ones in your area soon mate.
Cheers for that Phil, much appreciated mate. Funny you mention Tropheus as when I set up the fish room, I had every intention of having two types in each of my 2, 4 foot aquariums.
Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed the tour ✌ I used to keep Multies years ago, well before I had the fishroom. BUT I have bought similis since I filmed this fish room tour! You can see the guys here ua-cam.com/video/P0-YvEjtPRo/v-deo.html
@@JasonsCichlids I was able to watch it right after dropping the prior comment. Great stuff. I only recently started to turn my eye on Tanganyikan fish, started keeping multies 2 months ago. Tangs are so underrated.
@@The20ones Oh perfect mate! Welcome to the world of Tanganyikan Cichlids! I agree, they are extremely underrated. Have you spawned your Multies? They are awesome little fish aren't they.
@@JasonsCichlids they haven't spawned so far but I've got a pair in one tank and 2m/8f in another. Hoping to get a bigger tank, maybe that'll make it more comfortable for them.
Awesome. My favourite fish are my white calvus so I've gotta say your breeding pair are my favourites. Great to see you get so pumped when you realized they had spawned for you again. Congrats on that. I'd like to see you breed some Nigripinnis. I've just aquired a pair myself & am trying to get hold of more females but that's not so easy here in Perth where they are rather rare. Currently got a large breeder box in the tank to protect the female. Hopefully I'll source more females soon so I can let her out & see if I can get some fry out of them. Great video man 🍻
Cheers for that. I have to totally agree with you, my fave are my breeding pair of white Calvus. Haha I sounded like a complete goose, but I guess you all got to see my genuine reaction to finding out they spawned while I was filming this. Ok Nigripinnis is a great suggestion mate, I will look into it soon, just gotta make some room in my tanks and we'll see how we go! They are pretty rare over there are they? I have seen them come through a couple times over this side but not too often. Good luck sourcing some females mate! Hopefully you'll find some soon. Cheers again ✌
@@JasonsCichlids Nah, ya didn't sound like a goose. Just sounded like someone with genuine passion that was stoked to find something very cool in thier world. Tangs aren't all that popular here compared to the rest of the cichlids & even the people that are into them prefer the leptosoma so nigripinnis can be pretty hard to come by. I think I've seen them in shops here maybe 5 times in the past 10 years or so. I've got a line on some but it'll be a couple of months before I can get them if I don't find any sooner. If I have to I'll separate the female into another tank while I wait to get them.
Thanks mate, appreicate that! Yeah most people prefer colour over characteristics and behaviour of the fish, which I totally understand of course. But wow, ok only about 5 times in 10 years, so yeah pretty rare thats for sure! At least you have some lined up in the future if all else fails.
Great fish Bad video. Too long. Listen to your narration before you publish. - you repeat a lot and ramble quite a bit. The stars are your fish. - not your prose.
Hi Ryan, glad you like the collection of fish I have. I do wish I can tailor for everyone but that isn't always possible. It is difficult to go through an entire fish room and make a short video. Last year I broke my fish room tour into 5 videos but this year I thought I would do it all in one so people don't have to wait weeks to see the entire room. I am by no means a pro when it comes to this and probably will never feel comfortable talking on camera. I'll be the first to admit that, just trying to share my love of the hobby with you guys. However, cheers for the feedback.
@@JasonsCichlids I just want to say that I completely disagree with Ryan's comment. This is the first video of yours that I watched (and then I went on to binge all your other content) and in my opinion it is perfect! Your tanks look amazing and so natural, the fish are spectacular and your comments on them taught me so much! I have been keeping various tanganyikan cichlids for a few years but have only bred multies. Watching this video has made me more confident that I could try breeding other species due to what I have just learned from you. Keep 'em coming Jason!
Thank you very much for your support Mateo, it is greatly appreciated. I am glad you enjoyed the video and liked it so much so that you then went on to watch the rest of my videos! Means a lot to hear that. I am glad you have found them useful and that they have given you confidence to try your hand at breeding other Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids! Multies are a very interesting species of fish to breed, I love watching my cousins colony interact with each other. I hope you do try other species and best of luck with them. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask! Cheers again mate.
You need some Neolamprologus Caudopunctatus & Gold Head Compressiceps to finish your great collection off now!
I would love to have some Caudopuncs! But my cousin is breeding them and we try not to overlap too much with the species we have. I do however now have Gold Comps (not Gold Heads) in the fish room which I purchased a couple months after filming this fish room tour! They are growing up nicely and have featured in some of my monthly fish room updates since then.
@@JasonsCichlids Those all gold comps are great looking as well, I'll have to have a look!
Yeah they are good looking fish! Almost metalic looking in their gill plate
Very very cool fish room, cheers for sharing this matey
Thanks for that, glad you liked it!
Great work Jason!
Best wishes from another Sydneysider🙂👍🏽
Thanks so much mate! Really nice to hear from another Sydneysider! Cheers for that ✌✌
Your channel popped up on my feed and I was so excited as I’m looking to set up a tanganikan tank. Get video. Really enjoyed. What type of sand do you use?
Glad gou found my channel Edie and glad you enjoyed the video too! I use pool filter sand in my tanks.
Great vid as usual
Thanks heaps William, much appreicated
Nice video beautiful channel beautiful cichlids new friend here😃❤️👍
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video mate!
If Malawi have Aulonocara, haps and Mbunas... what classification in Tanganyika Cichlid?
There are far to many to mention here. But most commonly found are your Neolamprologus and Lamprologus.
what size of tank are you breeding the cichlids in? where are you located? very nice setups!
The tanks are 2 foot long x 2 foot wide x 14 inch high. Low profile for the tangs as most prefer a large footprint over a tall tank. I'm located in Sydney, Australia. Thanks mate, glad you liked them ✌
Tus tanques son increibles!!!, soy fanatico del tanganica, ¿puedes venderme peces y enviarlos a la ciudad de mexico?
Muchas gracias! me alegro de que te guste mi pescado. Pero lo siento, no puedo enviar pescado a México desde Australia.
Really appreciate your videos with the good videowork, no rushing from tank to tank👍🏻! It is really nice to watch your tanganyika room. Will follow your journey here on youtube🙏🏻
Cheers for that, I am glad you enjoyed the video work and slower paced tour. Thank you for following along!
Nice vlog jason superb work what type of stone and what kind algea on the rock
Thank you very much mate, glad you liked it. The stone is slate, I am not sure what algae grows on it unfortunately
Lots of love from india a true inspiration and dedication,one day my dreams comes true 👍.
Thank you very much for that! Too kind ✌
learned alot from you vids, inspired, keep it up, from the philippines
Great to hear Mark. I enjoy sharing my experiences with you all. Cheers from Australia!
I love the Tanganyiken cichlids i.m a collector my self thanks for sharing
I reckon they are underrated! Not a problem mate, glad you enjoyed it.
Jason hola saludos desde chile, en tus acuarios solo usas filtros de exponjas y mochila...cada cuanto haces cambios de agua
Hola desde Australia Víctor. Todos los acuarios en la primera hora están en un sumidero. Los acuarios de la segunda hora tienen filtros de esponja de dos cabezas. Cambio el agua de todos los acuarios una vez a la semana.
If the translation didn't work, here is the answer in English! Hello from Australia Victor. All the aquariums in the first hour are on a sump. The aquariums in the second hour have double headed sponge filters. I change the water in all aquariums once a week.
@@JasonsCichlids ...muchas gracias amigo por la informacion, saludos desde arica chile
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Fantastic video! I’m fairly new to lake tanganyikans and I have a new found appreciate for altolamprologus thanks to you. The tip about keeping pvc pieces instead of shells in the grow-out tanks is ingenious, thank you!
Thanks for that mate, glad you enjoyed the video ✌ really glad you have taken a liking to Altolamprologus because of my content! Pleases me to hear that. Glad you also found the pvc tip useful. Makes life a whole lot easier when it comes to catching your fish!
Do you breed any Cyprichromis? I would love to see a Cyp tank.
Wish I found this channel earlier great content I’m subbing
Cheers for the sub mate ✌ really glad you found the channel 👍
@@JasonsCichlids I will be going back and watching all older videos too
Awesome, hope you enjoy them
Love your Tangs! I have quite a few Tanganyikans too! Are all your tanks the same size? How many tanks do you have?
Cheers Ed, glad you like them mate ✌ I think Tanganyikans are pretty underrated. What Tangs do you keep? each row in my fish room has the same size tanks. 4 footers on the bottom. Low profile 2 footers on the middle. And 2 footers on their short ends on the top row. All up I have 32 tanks.
@@JasonsCichlids great setup. I have 80 tanks all sizes from 5 to 265 gallons mostly Tangs and fancy shrimp. I also am breeding trets, multis, leleupi, dickfeldi, albino julidochromis transcriptus and regulars, maleri, chalinochromis, & aulonocranus dewindti. Now you peaked my interest into calvus and compressiceps.
Wow 80 tanks. Great range of tank sizes to work with there too. And a very nice collection of Tangs you have. Interesting that you have successfully bred Trets. Not sure if you have seen my many videos on mine spawning but then my numerous failed attempts to raise their fry? They are my nemesis fish haha. But awesome that you're now thinking of getting into Calvus and Compressiceps!
@@JasonsCichlids with the trets they lay eggs but i have yet to see fry. I have them in a 265 gallon tank with sexfasciatus, dickfeldi, and chalinochromis. Might have to move them to my 100 gallon to breed them. They are 4” in size along with the sexfasciatus.
Ohh ok yeah thats the same as me. I spawn them but am unable to raise the fry so far. I get them to about 2 weeks old and they die. I left them with the parents the last time and the fry disappeared. Not sure if they need more practice. Probably best if you move the other fish out of the tank. But just make sure the male doesn't take all his aggression out of the female, see how you go keeping some dither fish in there with him.
Extremely motivating fish room; can’t wait to start my own.
Great to see quality home grown content. Was wondering how you remove the small occy gold fry from tank. I’m thinking turkey blaster but curious. Also what dimensions are your breeding tanks I can’t gauge the dimensions with the camera angle. Your setup is really incredible.
Regards Duzzy🇦🇺
Hello Darren, cheers for your comment. It is really easy to remove the occy fry from their tank as they tend to not rush to the the shells at a young age. Just use a net but I would wait at least two weeks to move them out though. I have found their survival rates drop if you move them out earlier, but your situation may be different. They were in a 2 foot x 2 foot by 14 in tall aquarium. Thanks, glad you liked it!
beautiful fish room just subscribed now your 1,001 lol
Thank you very much mate, glad you liked it! And cheers for the sub too!
@@JasonsCichlids always glad to support people in the hobby and share the love
@@CoralMan24 Too kind mate, thank you very much ✌✌
There are fishroom tours, and there are ,fishroom tours that floor me....Jason I’m nearly speechless, I’ve seen many many of your vids, and just when I think it won’t get better than that and B AM! I cannot say which species you have that I like best, they are all just that good. I guess if I wanted to see you breed a new group of fish, it would be some South American apistogrammas, that might make a fun project for you! Congrats on topping 1k subs, honestly it amazes me your not well into the thousands god knows you’ve earned it mate👍🏻👊🏻 Thank you so much.
Thank you so much mate, really means so much to me to hear you enjoyed the video as much as you did! Also glad you like the collection of Tangs I have! It's funny you say I should try Apsitos. My cousin Adam has personally said the same thing to me too because he has enjoyed breeding his. Thanks again mate, I am amazed that I have so many supporters as it is and I am extremely grateful for each and everyone of you. Cheers mate! ✌✌✌
Another great vlog Jason. Thank you 👍
I would like to see you have a try with neolamprologus caudopunctatus. I think they are an awesome fish and stunning to look at.
Thanks so much Paul, really glad you enjoyed it ✌ that is a great suggestion. I have always really liked Caudopuncs! I agree stunning lookong fish and I have never kept them. I haven't seen many around for a little while now, they seem to be a tad rare at the moment. But they are definitely a fish want to give a try.
I love Tanganyika Cichlids too. Any online websites you could recommend getting them from?
If you live in Australia I recommend AllFish2U. They are a great Aquarium shop in Sydney that's ships Australia wide. They also stock my Tanganyikan Cichlids.
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Cheers!
Hey Jason, nice videos I just found your channel and subscribed. I was under the impression it's quite difficult to source cichlids in Australia due to the quarantine protocols. I know when I was there and in NZ the selection I'd seen in the stores was pretty abysmal. You've seemed to find a good selection of species. Is it possible to get any wild caught fish there?
G'day mate, thank you for the sub, much appreciated! To source cichlids that are already in the country is fine, most aquarium stores stock at least some sort of cichlid, be it your most common types like Electric Yellows or Blues or "Mixed Peacocks" which are always hybrids. But that's a topic for another day. Sourcing rarer cichlids can be a challenge through aquarium stores but most of the time I get mine at cichlid club auctions. I am not sure about the import laws here regarding all cichlids however I am aware of a new law where we have been allowed to import Electric Yellows from the wild, so F0. Not sure if it's Australia wide or not but it is for New South Wales. I have seen F1 fry for sale numerous times before but I am not sure if they are legitimately F1.
Update on my Gold Calvus fry. They are approaching 1 month and I am taking precations to not cause any shockwaves in the water. They are doing very well. I have not been able to count them all as they are in a tank with brown gravel and they blend in well. From what I can estimate I have about 20-30 fry from the 1st spawn. I am feeding them crushed flake, Crushed Cichlid pellets, fry food, and mising in some frozen brine shrimp. They seem to get small gowth jumps after I do a weekly water change. I am doing smaller water changes. Probably not necessary to do weekly, but they seem to love it when I do as I see them much more active after. I am lucky in Texas we have deep water well water that is almost identical to Lake tanganyika parameters so PH stays consistant. I took the lid off after seeing your video where you lost fry from vibrations in the water. So far though mine do not seem to show any stress even when I do a water change. My pair are captive bred from the Dallas area so I think that may have something to do with how well they are doing. I removed the male 3 days after spawn and the female after the fry left the shell and were free swimming all over the tank. I have the fry in a 29 gallon tank. I have a 75 gallon Tanganyikan community tank I moved the male and female to.
That is a great update mate! That deep water well sounds absolutely perfect to have for Tanganyikan Cichlids! Very fortunate to have access to such good water! Glad you don't have to go to the lengths I have been with your fry, such as not having to worry about the clinking of lids, etc. Keep up the good work with them and you'll have a continuous supply of calvus to sell.
Nice fish 🐟
Cheer for that 👍
Less likable fish in your room the guppies
Try putting 1 shell 🐚 in it will make it easy to catch you just pick the shell up and shake them out into the shipping bag very easy to drop any extras back in the tank
I really don't like the shaking of the shell with fish in it. Having PVC does just as good a job of replacing shells in fry grow out tanks and its just as easy to catch the fish.
super!!!
Cheers ✌
I've been looking for a channel that is focused on Tanganyikan fish and that has regular content for quite some time now. I'm so glad your channel popped up on my feed! I would like to suggest that you put more lights on top of your tanks when you're making videos cos it's hard to see these awesome fishes in those poorly lit tanks. I'm so looking forward to watching more content from you!
Really glad you found my channel mate, I hope you like the rest of the content I have here and find it useful. Thanks for the suggestion too. The LED light bars I purchased are pretty narrow for 2 foot wide tanks, will definitely keep this in mind for future videos. Cheers again mate!
That was thorough. Good to see that things are coming along. No caves for the peppermint bristlenose? You said you were selling can you tell me where the club is would like to attend. Congratulations too
Thanks Tony, much appreciated mate. No caves for them yet, just been relying on the drift wood for now but I will make some for them soon. Going to do my terracotta saucer caves for them, be interesting if that kicks them into spawning! Yeah I am selling fish at the Illawarra branch of our Cichlid Club. Auction starts at 2pm on 13th Feb at Koonawarra Public School in Dapto. But, if you would like to purchase any of my fish specifically feel free to email me at jasonscichlids@gmail.com
Thanks everyone for your support! I should mention, if you wish to purchase any of my fry please feel free to email me at jasonscichlids@gmail.com I also now have an Instagram page which you can follow here: instagram.com/jasonscichlids
Do you have a instagram or Facebook acc to keep up to date with?
I am setting an instgram account up very soon Josh. Look out for an update on it in an upcoming video.
Do you ever see any elongatus from Tanganyika? Had a breeding pair in a shop here in the early 90s not seen any here for sale since
@@cnance1972 As in Lepidiolamprologus elongatus? Yes, see them a bit actually. Actually uncle has a very nice breeding pair at the moment! You had a breeding pair back in the 90s too, they were very rare back then in Sydney so that would have been a great pair to have!
Hey Josh, I have finally set up an instagram account. Not much on there at the moment but its instagram.com/jasonscichlids
You've been a huge inspiration to me, I love your content and everything you do! I'm starting a channel and just order a bunch of stuff to start my first fish room! Thank you so much for everything you have done! God Bless and Much Love! ✌️
That is really great to hear. I am glad I have been able to inspire you with your fish room journey! Really means a lot to me mate
Thank you Sir!
As always awesome video,
Need some suggestion, what will be the suitable tank for breeding species like chalinochromics ndobhoi, neolamprologus mustax. Will 20 long 30x12x12 (inches) will be sufficient.
Thanks heaps Rahul, glad you like it. Yes they should be alright in tanks that size. Almost 3 feet long so yeah should be fine mate.
@@JasonsCichlids thanks mate
Hello Jason thank you for sharing your video and your aquariums. Once again I do appreciate your passion and love for the hobby!
Thank you Matteo, glad you enjoyed the video ✌ much appreicated!
Dude, u are amazing! I'm a huge fan, from Brazil! Thanks for all!
Thanks so much for the kind words mate, glad you're enjoying the content! ✌✌✌
You should try to breed lake tanganyikan killifish
Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into them
Hey for your ocellatus gold, what’s the sand?
I use pool filter sand in all my tanks
I want to see you get and breed some Lepidiolamprologus Kendalli. Get to it!
Hahaha yeah umm I wish mate! If anyone in Australia has Kendalli, please let me AND Adam know!
Nice decent setup. Best wishes from Hyderabad, India
Thank you! Much appreciated. Best wishes to you too from Sydney, Australia!
I’m chasing some j. Regani in Perth, nice work cuz
Are you Dan? I hope you can source some soon mate
I like your white Calvus! Those are nice!!
Cheers mate, glad you like them! They are my faves in the entire fish room!
Excellent channel. It’s always nice to see a good solid Tanganyikan collection. If I may add a species suggestion or 2…….anything Cyathopharynx or Cyprichromis. I’ve been keeping Tangs for 20yrs and those 2 have been 2 of my all time favourite genus to keep. Kept many over the year. I’d imagine a bit more difficult to acquire in Oz. They’re always rather difficult to get here in Canada as well!
Thank you very much Karl. Great suggestions, I really would like to get either if those or both if possible. Especially furcifer. I used to see furcifer around a bit a couple years back but haven't in a while. Cyps are a little more common depending on the type. But yeah correct, they are on the rarer side of tangs in Oz too. Need more tanks!
@@JasonsCichlids I used to keep Cyp sp. “brilliant jumbo” Kitumba and Moba, Cyp microlepidotus “Kiriza”, Cyp. Coloratus “Kalambo”! Those were on the rarer side anywhere and still are. I kept a few locales of the bread and butter leptosoma from Mplungu, Utinta etc. Cyathopharynx need 6 foot long tanks and a species only tank to really show their colours but they do well in mixed tanks with Cyprichromis also.
@@JasonsCichlids we always need more tanks don’t we 😂😂
Why do you don't put pothos in your tanks ?
I was going to but then decided not to. Originally i was just going to have them growing from the corner cut-out of the glass lids. But it would make catching fish difficult. I did consider potting them to control root growth but then I don't think the aquascaping would look as nice.
Awesome collection, so much variety in there. Quick note, I notice some sort of high pitched buzzing coming from some parts of the video. The intro was clear, but the moment the gold occies came to the camera it started up again... Keep up the great work!
Thank you, glad you like the collection of fish I have. Damn really? You're the second person to mention a high pitched sound on the videos. But I unfortunately can't hear it at all. Thanks for the feedback on that mate. Cheers!
@@JasonsCichlids yeah its not particularly bothersome, barely notice it when we see the amazing fish 😂
Haha great, well thats good to know it isn't unbearable or something. Cheers mate ✌✌
Question about the leluepi? I have yellow ones. I can't find any orange ones where I'm located. Is it just a color difference or does it mean something more?
There are many different types of leleupi colour morphs ranging from yellow, orange, brown, grey and even yet black. All coming from different locations in Lake Tanganyika. I have only ever seen yellow and orange leleupi with the other colour morphs being rare. Hopefully you will come across some nice orange ones in your area soon mate.
@@JasonsCichlids Thanks. Happy fish keeping to you.
Cheers mate, you too!
Excellent insight to your room, a few tanks of trophies would look amazing 👍
Cheers for that Phil, much appreciated mate. Funny you mention Tropheus as when I set up the fish room, I had every intention of having two types in each of my 2, 4 foot aquariums.
@@JasonsCichlids I'd like to see how some species could exist keeping colours bright
loved this tour! why arent u keeping staple multis and similis?
Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed the tour ✌ I used to keep Multies years ago, well before I had the fishroom. BUT I have bought similis since I filmed this fish room tour! You can see the guys here ua-cam.com/video/P0-YvEjtPRo/v-deo.html
@@JasonsCichlids I was able to watch it right after dropping the prior comment. Great stuff. I only recently started to turn my eye on Tanganyikan fish, started keeping multies 2 months ago. Tangs are so underrated.
@@The20ones Oh perfect mate! Welcome to the world of Tanganyikan Cichlids! I agree, they are extremely underrated. Have you spawned your Multies? They are awesome little fish aren't they.
@@JasonsCichlids they haven't spawned so far but I've got a pair in one tank and 2m/8f in another. Hoping to get a bigger tank, maybe that'll make it more comfortable for them.
You already have a nice sized colony. What is the size of the tank you have the group of 10 in?
Thanks for sharing! Awesome fish room. Love the intro too!
Thank you mate! Much appreciated. Glad you liked the intro, they take some time to do! So glad to see you guys enjoy them
Awesome fish room!!! Just subscribed
Thank you so much Tony! Really glad you liked it and thank you so much for subscribing! ✌️
Congrats!
Thanks heaps Greg ✌✌
Awesome. My favourite fish are my white calvus so I've gotta say your breeding pair are my favourites. Great to see you get so pumped when you realized they had spawned for you again. Congrats on that. I'd like to see you breed some Nigripinnis. I've just aquired a pair myself & am trying to get hold of more females but that's not so easy here in Perth where they are rather rare. Currently got a large breeder box in the tank to protect the female. Hopefully I'll source more females soon so I can let her out & see if I can get some fry out of them.
Great video man 🍻
Cheers for that. I have to totally agree with you, my fave are my breeding pair of white Calvus. Haha I sounded like a complete goose, but I guess you all got to see my genuine reaction to finding out they spawned while I was filming this. Ok Nigripinnis is a great suggestion mate, I will look into it soon, just gotta make some room in my tanks and we'll see how we go! They are pretty rare over there are they? I have seen them come through a couple times over this side but not too often. Good luck sourcing some females mate! Hopefully you'll find some soon. Cheers again ✌
@@JasonsCichlids Nah, ya didn't sound like a goose. Just sounded like someone with genuine passion that was stoked to find something very cool in thier world.
Tangs aren't all that popular here compared to the rest of the cichlids & even the people that are into them prefer the leptosoma so nigripinnis can be pretty hard to come by. I think I've seen them in shops here maybe 5 times in the past 10 years or so. I've got a line on some but it'll be a couple of months before I can get them if I don't find any sooner. If I have to I'll separate the female into another tank while I wait to get them.
Thanks mate, appreicate that! Yeah most people prefer colour over characteristics and behaviour of the fish, which I totally understand of course. But wow, ok only about 5 times in 10 years, so yeah pretty rare thats for sure! At least you have some lined up in the future if all else fails.
Great fish
Bad video.
Too long.
Listen to your narration before you publish. - you repeat a lot and ramble quite a bit.
The stars are your fish. - not your prose.
Hi Ryan, glad you like the collection of fish I have. I do wish I can tailor for everyone but that isn't always possible. It is difficult to go through an entire fish room and make a short video. Last year I broke my fish room tour into 5 videos but this year I thought I would do it all in one so people don't have to wait weeks to see the entire room. I am by no means a pro when it comes to this and probably will never feel comfortable talking on camera. I'll be the first to admit that, just trying to share my love of the hobby with you guys. However, cheers for the feedback.
@@JasonsCichlids I just want to say that I completely disagree with Ryan's comment. This is the first video of yours that I watched (and then I went on to binge all your other content) and in my opinion it is perfect! Your tanks look amazing and so natural, the fish are spectacular and your comments on them taught me so much! I have been keeping various tanganyikan cichlids for a few years but have only bred multies. Watching this video has made me more confident that I could try breeding other species due to what I have just learned from you. Keep 'em coming Jason!
Thank you very much for your support Mateo, it is greatly appreciated. I am glad you enjoyed the video and liked it so much so that you then went on to watch the rest of my videos! Means a lot to hear that. I am glad you have found them useful and that they have given you confidence to try your hand at breeding other Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids! Multies are a very interesting species of fish to breed, I love watching my cousins colony interact with each other. I hope you do try other species and best of luck with them. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask! Cheers again mate.