Haplochromis multicolor Popular name Small or Egyptian Mouth-breeder.Origin Eastern Africa.Lower Nile.Size 3 inches.Appearance Yellowish clay-colored body with gold and greenish iridescence in places. Blue spangles on fins. Behavior Very peaceful for a Cichlid. Can be kept in community tank with fishes its own size. Becomes more aggressive at breeding time, particularly to its own kind.Feeding Insect larvae, Daphnia, whiteworms; will take dried foods.Water conditions Not critical. Temperature 78°F.Breeding Can be bred in small tanks (1 foot or over), when about l.5 inches long; 50 to 100 eggs are deposited in a shallow pit. After spawning, female takes up the eggs in her mouth. Male should now be removed. Mouth of female enlarged, stretched, and thin so that eggs can be seen in mouth. Fry hatch· in 10 to 15 days, and emerge from mouth. Both female and fry should be fed now. Young return to the mouth of the female periodically,particicularly at night and if danger threatens. First food for fry, brine shrimps. Female can be removed a day or two after fry start feeding.Recommeneded feeding system Aquaze Tropical.
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