Rainbow cichlid

Regenbogencichlide ( Archocentrus multispinosus )

The Regenbogencichlide or rainbow cichlid ( Archocentrus multispinosus ( Syn: Herotilapia multispinosa ) ) is a freshwater ornamental fish from the family of cichlids.

Description

Pursuant fins formula:

• Dorsal XVII / 9
• Anal X / 7

Occurrence

It is native to Central America, namely Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua. The waters in which Herotilapia multispinosa occurs, have the following water parameters:

• A GH value of 9 ° to 20 ° d d
• And a temperature of 21 ° C to 36 ° C.

Hunting and

It is very easy to hold and makes no special demands on water quality. He is outside the mating season, a very peaceful fish that goes well with any community tank. Regenbogencichliden be up to 12 cm tall, the male is about 3 to 5 cm larger than the female. When a pair of brood care operates, it is strong revier forming and attacks everything in the area. On the attitude you need an aquarium with at least 200 liters.

The Herotilapia multispinosa is omnivorous ( omnivorous ) and can be fed with live, frozen and dry food.

Breeding

A couple begins with the courtship and looking to for a station, if it is to produce offspring. Do this create them best a small flower pot into the pool or a flat stone. The couple then begins with the careful cleaning of the selected stone or flower pot. They thereby change their colors. The female lays from then depending on the size between 200 and 500 eggs, which are immediately fertilized by the male. In the subsequent brood care, the female is almost all the time on the nest and fanning the eggs to fresh water. After about two days the young hatch. The parents take their eggs singly in his mouth and chew on the egg shell, so that the boys can better slip. These are then spit into a previously created gravel dump, where they remain lying 2 to 3 days until their swim bladder has formed and they can swim freely. After another day you should start to feed the young with powdered food or brine shrimp. The boy eating as needed to feed from the ground. After four weeks, you should separate the juveniles from their parents, as they then have usually begin again with the courtship and the old brood would eat them. In general, the breed is not easy in a community tank, as the young fish are eaten by other fish or by his own father, if it comes back in Balzlust. Best used about 3/4 of the pups in a separate breeding tank where they have a higher chance of survival. We can begin to feed the pups with frozen Cyclops after about two weeks.