It's been a while since i've last updated this blog! Schedule's been rather crazy and all :) Anyhoo... the midas cichlids are doing pretty well, this batch. After the murderous pair that took out the entire tank, everyone seems to be doing much better here!
I think this is the alpha female as she's moving about without being harass by other fishes! She's also without a nuchal hump and she's been caring for a brood earlier. The picture below shows her smaller male pair protecting what used to be their nesting grounds.
The picture below has more details of them lip-locking! Hopefully these are normal signs of aggresions expected in a really stuffed tank!
Unlike other cichlid families, there's always a fear that this fishes will dominate and kill everything when the bigger alpha pairs starts breeding! Hence the point to really stuff the tank, to allow the aggression to spread. If you really squint, there are a few other jaguar cichlids in the pics! There's a big 1 feet jaguar hiding amount the driftwoods too, thanks to a malay chap who caught them by using a castnet (jala)! Hopefully, the next time with better lighting i could get a nicer shot of him! :)
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