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Tank Notes Tank Notes Photo by Brian Miller Grand Valley Aquarium Club Tank Notes November - December 2018 ISSUE 82 GVAC Annual Holiday Party December 8, 2018 Time: 6 - 9 PM Location: Grand Ravines Lodge 9920 42nd Ave Georgetown Township, MI 49428 Activities include handing out club awards for 2018, our “Bring a Fish, Get a Fish” bag swap, and door prizes. Please bring a dish to pass, GVAC will be supplying turkey, ham, and mashed potatoes. Paid GVAC Members Only. GVAC Tank Notes | Issue 82 | 1 President’s Message GVAC, Calendar of Events: Fall is quickly coming to a close and the season of being indoors November: is fast approaching. If you are 10: GVAC Meeting anything like me that means 7 PM - Homeschool Building more time in the fish room, new projects and new fish! Speaker: Rare Fish Night One of the things I love the most about this hobby is how there is always something new to explore and try. I Motor City Aquarium Society Auction know I say this a lot, but branch out and try something Madison Heights, MI you haven’t done before. I know personally that Robert motorcityaquariumsociety.com Lupton’s last talk got me even more interested in shrimp than ever before, and that is coming from a cichlid guy! 16-18: Ohio Cichlid Association Extravaganza ohiocichlid.com I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for a fantastic year. I am proud to be part of an organization that works together to put on great events from our December: auctions and swap to the ALA convention last spring. Our 8: GVAC Holiday Party club always rises to the occasion and does a great job! A 7 PM - Grand Ravines Lodge huge portion of that is due to the work of your Board of Georgetown Township, MI Directors and other volunteers. This organization would not exist without their tireless work. There is no way that this club would be where it is without their work. Thank Inside this Issue: you to all who make GVAC the group that it is. President’s Message 2 I hope to see you at our November meeting and Christmas party in the coming weeks. These events are our chance Calendar of Events 2 to give back to you and say thank you for a great year. I 2018 BAP 3 hope you are able to join us as we close out 2018 and look to an exciting 2019 of auctions, meetings and fishy fun! Neolamprologus Kungweensis 4 Be sure to take a look in this newsletter for a first glance at our 2019 speakers! 2018 HAP 5 The Addiction (2) 6 Swimming Forward, Oryzias Woworae 6 Justin Sarns Please support those who support GVAC: ADG/Aqua Design Amano USA Florida Aquatic Nurseries Preuss Pets Amazonas Magazine Hagen Python Products Aquarium Services HBH Pet Products Repashy Superfoods Aquatic Gardeners Association - Hikari USA San Francisco Bay Brand Karen Randall Kordon - Novalek Seachem Laboratories, Inc. Blue Fish Aquarium Marineland SpectraPure Boyd Enterprises OddballFish.com Ted’s Fishroom CichlidBreeding.com Ocean Star International Tetra Cichlid Press OmegaSea TFH - Tropical Fish Hobbyist Dave’s Rare Fish Penn Plax Watercolors Aquarium Gallery Doctors Foster & Smith Pet Supplies Plus Zoo Med Laboratories, Inc. GVAC Tank Notes | Issue 82 | 2 2018 BAP January - October Jeremy Deroos – 25 Tropheus Sp. Maculatus Chase Klinesteker – 3 ancistrus cirrhosus Barbus Macrops Betta splendens “Plakat thai” Jonathan Kamps – 7 Darario Sondhii Fundulopanchax Gardneri Chindongo Saulosi Undescribed Tetra from Manan Labidochromeis Caeruleus Neocardina Davidi Limia vittata Neolamprologus Brevis Jerimiah Drake – 3 Clean helena Neolamprologus Calliurus Neocardina cfzhangliawiensisrar Macropodus opercularis Neolamprologus Olivaceous planorbis rubrum Neocaridina davidi Physella Acuta poecilia wingei campoma Neocaridina Hetropda Planorbis Rubrum Neocaridina Zhangjiajensis Joe Gardner – 3 Oryzias Woworae Mike Monje – 6 Neeolamprologus Olivaceous Pelvicachromis pulcher Danio Rerio var. Franki Pseudotropheus Demoasoni Planorbarius Corneus Danio Roseus Melanochromis dialeptos Pocilia Wingei Rasbora Vulacnus Poecilia obscura Oriechthys crenvchoides Eric Clements – 2 Poecilia reticulata Pethia Ticto Procambarus sp. ”marble crayfish” Poecilia Wingei “Blue Star” Tanichthys micagemmae Xiphophorus sp. Pomacea bridgesii Procambarus fallax Rachel Roth – 6 Eric Maxson – 2 Steatocranus irvinei Callochromis melanostigma Haplochromis sp. K.K. Beach Synodontis lucipinnis Geophagus Red head Tapajo Xiphophorus hellerii Dawkinsia filamentosa Labidochromis caeruleus ‘filament barb’ Pocelia reticulata Aaron Timmer – 2 Heros efaciatus ‘ gold severum’ Pocilia Reticulata Puntius titteya Physella acuta ‘bladder snail’ Poecilia reticulata Xiphophorus maculatus Tanichthys albonubes ‘golden’ white cloud Aaron Turner – 6 Scott Visser – 2 Carassius auratus ancistrus cirrhosus Chris Carpenter – 10 Poecilia wingei Maylandia lombardoi Aulonocara sp. Lwanda Xiphophorua Maculatus Callochromis melanostigma Betta splendens Cyndi Westra – 2 Cyphotilapia Frontosa Pelvicachromis pulcher cynotilapia white top hara Cyrtocara Moorii Poecilia reticulata Enantriopus Melanogenys Haplochromis sp. kk beach Lamprologus Calliurus Justin Sarns – 5 Brian Miller – 2 Lamprologus Leloupi Amatitlania nigrofasciata Xiphorphorus Maculatus Maetriaclima lanisticola Aulonocara Maulana Nomorhamphus liemi Neolamprologus kungweensis Labidochromis sp. Xiphophorus kallmani ”Hongi Super Red Top” Joe Spaniolo – 1 lamprologus speciosus Lamprologus Brevis Jeff Lusk– 7 Neolamprologus brevis sunspot Julidochromis marlieri Kory Voodre – 1 Labidochromis sp. “Hongi” RJ Morris – 4 Cyphotilapia Frontosa ‘kigoma’ lepidiolamprologus meeli Asolene spixi Melanoides tuberculata Pocelia reticulata John Yost – 1 Neolamprologus Brevis “Sun Spot “ Red Flamingo Guppy Opthalmotilapia ventralis “Chaitika” Planorbis Rubrum Xiphosphorus Helleri GVAC Tank Notes | Issue 82 | 3 with PVC pipe and an elbow, but I decided against it because it would have required me to increase the depth of my substrate. In appearance these fish look very similar to Neolamrogus signatus and Neolamprologus laparogramma. Like almost all cichlids that use shells they are small. Males max out at 2” and females top out at 1.25”. Their body is mostly silver aside from some beautiful blue markings around the eye that almost makes them appear as if they’ve applied Neolamprologus makeup. The dorsal fin of females have unique black spots surrounded by white. Males have the kungweensis same pattern, but the color is absent. Females also By Chris Carpenter have a golden belly which is increasingly evident when in spawning condition. Lake Tanganyika is truly a wonder and Once introduced my fish went about home to a wide variety of living creatures, including establishing their territories. Males setup camp on over 150 cichlid species. When I got started in the opposite ends of the 48’ tank and met in the middle hobby I was immediately hooked on the cichlids to flare at each other, in a smaller tank I think there from Lake Tanganyika. Over the years I’ve kept, would have been more aggression. Females moved bred and studied many of these fish. I’ve taken a about freely, but once they chose a spot they would particular interest in the shell dwellers, also called chase out intruding females. A month or two passed “shellies” for short. with regular water changes and a healthy diet and I Occasionally there is some confusion as to saw no evidence of spawning behavior. I decided to which species are true shell dwellers. The definition separate a pair that seemed to get along. I moved the of a true shellie would be “a fish in the wild that pair to an established 10 gallon and within a couple naturally makes use of an empty shell for shelter days I saw that they had excavated a small pit with a and spawning” also called an Ostracophil. Some shell directly in the center. Approximately one week fish are true shell dwellers and use shells exclusively, later I found close to 30 of the smallest cichlid fry but there are others that are known to use different I had ever seen. These fry were tiny! Many shellies sites for spawning and refuge but will make use of an will raise their fry for an extended time. I decided to empty shell if the opportunity presents itself. These test their parenting skills and they failed. The female fish are referred to as “opportunistic shell dwellers”. started eating the fry within a couple days and the Neolamprologus kungweensis is considered an male was not happy about that, so he turned on her opportunistic shell dweller. Described as a “mud and chased her relentlessly. Back to the 40L they spawner” in the wild they build a diagonal tunnel in went. I tried a couple more unsuccessful pairings the mud and lay non-adhesive eggs at the bottom, until I eventually found one that worked. It didn’t but they have been known to lay these eggs in shells take long before I found another sandpit. This time as well. I noticed the female fanning eggs inside the shell Finding these fish in the hobby can be and I got up close to take video footage. She fanned a challenge but with the age of the internet and a few times and then noticed me, moved to a shell plenty of people selling and shipping fish, they can 6” away and started fanning. I swear she did this just be found, if you search the right sources. I found to throw me off! I’ve since witnessed this behavior some for sale from an online seller that I trust multiple times. Most often the fry emerge from the approximately one year ago and because they were shell where the pit has been dug, but not always. high on my “fish wish list” I ordered 6. The cost was After the fry are either removed or eaten the pit reasonable, but shipping was high due to the time has always been covered up, which helps give me a of year. While unboxing the fish I was surprised clear indication of every spawn, see a pit, look for to find that I had received 8 fish, 2 males and 6 fry soon.
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