Silver dollars all coloured up for spawning!

[fraggle]

Well my dollars are at it again, thumbs2: . I think I need to get them a tank by themselves so I can try to get some babies!

Anyways I took a couple of photos of them all coloured up, they look so different to the normal silver mirrors that they are!

The first 3 are of "Tank" my male and the second 2 are of "Tilly" my lady. (excuse the black skirt, it seemed to try to hog the camera, LOL, I've got about another 25 with it darting in on the photos)

[Deleted User]

Very nice fish fraggle. How big are they ?

[Lady Hobbs]

Mine look the same with black blobs and streaks all over them. Also have black skirts with mine. :)

[Brookfish]

Stunning SD's fraggle, great pics!!

[mac]

They look loverly. Good luck with breeding them. And great pics.

mac

[fraggle]

Thanks guys!

Celtic they'd be 15cm or more from head to tail, they really are gorgeous I love em!!

Does anyone know if I add more to the 2 of them, will it stop them spawning? I mean to they actually pair up and are monogamous like most of the cichlids? Or polygamous and ab it voyeristic and don't mind others around:hmm3grin2orange: ?

[Deleted User]

Thanks guys!

Celtic they'd be 15cm or more from head to tail, they really are gorgeous I love em!!


They are great fish and a nice size already. :ssmile:

[Lady Hobbs]

Black blops, black spots and more red showing. And tetra's getting in the shot. :ssmile:

What took you one shot probably took me 20!

[sandy_n]

Well my dollars are at it again, thumbs2: . I think I need to get them a tank by themselves so I can try to get some babies!

Anyways I took a couple of photos of them all coloured up, they look so different to the normal silver mirrors that they are!

The first 3 are of "Tank" my male and the second 2 are of "Tilly" my lady. (excuse the black skirt, it seemed to try to hog the camera, LOL, I've got about another 25 with it darting in on the photos)

They color up very well. Nice pics!

[fraggle]

Black blops, black spots and more red showing. And tetra's getting in the shot. :ssmile:

What took you one shot probably took me 20!

LOL, it was more than 1, that 1 flaming black skirt would dart in to the photo just as I took it, so I've got lots of photos of them with a black skirt closer and taking up most of the pic, LOL

Nice shot Hobbs! Can you pick which ones are your boys and girls now?:hmm3grin2orange:


Thanks Sandy :ssmile:

[Lady Hobbs]

They color up very well. Nice pics!

Not really but honestly don't pay that much attention to their spawning because it's a daily product with them. They swim so close together when spawning they look like one fish. I assume the females are the largest.

They scatter the eggs and don't eat them. New babies are attached to the glass in several hours. I only saw that once and cleaned the glass off of the babies because there were thousands! My featherfins might eat the eggs. I don't know but seems one or two would escape.

[troy]

Very nice fish.

[fraggle]

I can pick 3 males in your pic, they don't have the red on the anal fin, and it's more or a curve than a straight line like the females, but then I can't see all their anal fins so you could have more! LOL

None of my eggs have survived, the tetras and loaches (and now the convicts and JD, geez I need a bigger tank!) soon take care of them, I haven't seen the SD eat them. You can tell when she's releasing eggs, thebother fish swim behind like it's a smorgasboard LOL!