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THE NEXT MEETING will be held on the third Wednesday of this month at
the Northvale Primary SChool hall, Albany Drive, Mulgrave at 8.00 pm
sharp (but the trading table and library open much sooner - around
7.30). Supper will be partaken of after the meeting - visitors, as
always, are welcome.
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2. Voucher from M.A.S.
3. Frozen food by AQUAVELL.
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Over the past year or so I have noticed the club has been
rapidly growing. There seems to be lots of new faces at
meetings and the mailing list is growing. Good to see more
people keeping cichlids in this country as it increases the
survival rate of the hobby. Next time there's a strange face
at a meeting introduce yourself and make them feel welcolme.
The committee has decided to do a survey on ""What you would
like and What you expect out of the VCS?" so please have a
good think and fill it out after all it is to benefit YOU
and the rest of the club. I'm sure it will certainly help
future commmittees and improve the VCS.
Peter Grinblat brought to my attention a good Editorial titled
"Keeping Time" by Edward Bauman in Aquarium Fish Magazine Sept
1991. If you get the time have a read its a worthy piece of
advice on how to enjoy fish keeping and keep your life at
the same time.
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THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF CICHLID SOCIETIES
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1991
By Aart Langelaar.
The Convention was held in Moorebank,
4th, 5th and 6th of October.
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Norm Halliwell: "VIDEO ON LAKE MALAWIAN CICHLIDS"
on
I know that I am speaking collectively, on behalf
of all those who attended, when we extend our
congratulations to the host, The New South Wales
Cichlid Society Inc., for their professionalism,
high standards set for future events and their
great hospitality.
Friday 4-10-'91:
A B.B.Q.
was
held at Danielle and
Norm
Halliwell's place (7pm - 11.3Opm) was attended by
at least fifty people and went on well past
midnight.
It was attended by visitors from
Cairns to Adelaide, a great night which proved to
be trendsetter of the mood for the days to
follow.
Saturday 5-10-'91:
REGISTRATION, 8am, self explanatory, where we
were presented with a name tag, Special Issue of
Cichlid Circular (which will be available on loan
from our library).
A synopsis of Cichlasoma
(Heros)
- loisellei,
previously
known
as
motoguense, (also available from the library) as
well as a gift parcel containing:
2 lots of Agualife food, Wardley's flakes, Tetra
Agua Safe, Tristart, Sera Note Pad, Aquasonic
Conditioner,
3
Aquarium
Digest
Water
International magazines, Tetra Press leaflettes.
Our registration number was also a. number in the
raffle.
SPEAKERS
Chris Davies:
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A very informative talk, assisted with slides, on
the differences between species and locality
morphs of CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICAN CICHLIDS.
A video tape of approx 40 minutes, depicting
catching localities, catching procedures, holding
facilities, despatching for overseas markets. As
well as a range of slides of many, never seen
before Lake Cichlids, informatively narrated by
Norm.
Peter Gallagher:
"DISCUS"
excellent talk on his personal experience of
breeding many varieties of Discus, discussing in
depth the importance of water quality, feeding
procedures, stressing the necessity of a well
balanced diet for young fry.
An
Rolly McKay:
"SPECIES OF CICHLIDS SUPPLIED for
IDENTIFICATION"
As curator of fishes for the Queensland Museum he
spoke briefly on the subject ... but as a
consultant on A.C.O.L.F. (Advisory Committee On
Life
Fish to the Minister
regarding
laws
pertaining to importation of and keeping of
exotic fish and as a person with a vast practical
experience and knowledge of AUSTRALIAN ECOLOGY
PROTECTION ... He spoke with great conviction and
in
deep concern of THE FUTURE OF CICHLIDS
AUSTRALIA.
His
message
(and
the
sentiments
thereof
wholeheartedly concurred with by the committee of
the Federat ion) ... 00 SOMETHING REALISTIC AND
CONSTRUcrlVE ON A NATIONAL BASIS ... or... THE
HOBBY WILL DIMINISH TO A STANDARD .. WORSE
THAN PRESENTLY EXISTS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
Lets face it, seven tonnes of Tilapia in a dam is
not going to endear us with or gain support from,
State
and/or
Federal
Government
or
any
environment
protective
minded
organisation.
There are no merit points for the thousands of
responsible aquarists .. ONLY POSSIBLE DISASTERS
will be remembered and count heavily against us.
There is no quick and simple solution but certain
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possibilities will be considered in a NATIONAL
SURVEY) to hobby and trade, to be instigated by
the Federation in the very near future.
Points
to
be
considered:
EDUCATION,
VOLUNTARY
DECLARATION OF CERTAIN SPECIES TO BECOME NOXIOUS
ON
A NATIONAL
BASIS,
PERMIT
SYSTEMS,
STERILISATION.
We either do something or have it done for
remember SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
David
Eccles:
us,
"SPECIES
of AFRICAN RIFI' LAKE
CICHLIDS"
Assisted with slides, maps and graphs, David
conducted a very interesting talk
on:
the
geography of Lake Halawi.. restrictions of certain
Genera to specific locations, rules pertaining to
Taxonomy, discussion and recognition of species
of slides, followed (as did all other talks) by a
not long enough Question and Answer period.
John Paxton: "DEEP SEA MARINE FISHES"
Many including lIIYself, wondered "Why Marines at a
Cichl id Convention???"
As is often the rule,
contrast
stimulate,
contrasting it was and stimulation a plus did
occur.
In this very interesting talk John covered: The
Fishing Trade, spoke of the many newly discovered
species (now in excess of 3,500).
Impact on
Import and Export,
expansion of variety of
species for local consumption, biology of deep
water fish to a depth of 4,000 meters.
A talk
which I would like to see repeated at one of our
own meetings.
AFTERNOON TEA.
1991 A.F.e.S. Delegates Meeting.
MEMBERS PRESENT:
N.S.W.
QLD.
S.A.
W.A.
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Welcome aboard for our November
flight.
The weathers fine - just
have
to
avoid
Pegasus
and
hitchhikers in barrels.
First stop is Eastern Districts
Aquarium Society in answer to the
invite in the October issue of
FISHTALES. They are very impressed
with FACS President Bill Smith's
"Tank Mates for Cichlids".
Next
stop
is Canberra and
District
Aquarium Society in answer to the
invite in April-June TANK TALK.
Andrew Boyd starts an interesting
discussion with "The Trouble with
Hybridsl" Dave Wilson puts forward
some
good
arguments
regarding
"Rainbowfish Problems? - Read this"
Andrew Boyd reports on the success
of "Breeding the Lionhead Cichlidl"
Next
stop is South
Australian
Aquarium
Society in answer
to
invites in September and October
FISHTALES MAGAZINE. Our Greek mate
gives
a
brief
a
nonymous
introduction to "The Rock Dwelling
Fish of Lake Malawi l" Nora Ferrara
tells about a "Successful Breeding
of Cyphotilapia frontosa"
That just leaves us with the must
read mags - SUPERFISH July - August
and September - October (The work
of our lecturer last month) and
REVUE FRANCAISE DE CICHLIDES for
October.
See you next month.
GRAHAM
Did not attend the conference.
G. Rowe, D. Hutchins, A. Langelaar.
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Well, its October again and an anniversary for me, fish
keeping that is.
What else!
One year ago I started my
fantasy, compulsion, addiction, lets call a spade a spade,
mania for fish keeping, who would have thought that those
two little gold fish (from the Melbourne Show) would have
turned my home into one large fish house.
There are only three room's in my house without tanks, 1)
The bathroom, (I would have but it's too small), 2) The
kitchen, (again I would have but have read somewhere that
cooking fumes etc are not good for the fish) and 3) The
bedroom (I tried but hubby put his foot down, and everything
else) .
The reason for this little article is my 2' tank in the
front room, the one behind my 3 x 18" tanks.
Inside this
tank are my two remaining female Hemichromis lifalili, 2
peppered cat fish (corydoras ehrhardti) and 1 algae eater
(Gyrinocheilus aymoniere) and as of last week 1 HALE
lifalili.
This last fish is important, (if you want to
spawn fish and have the eggs fertile) its essential.
I
purchased my lifalili about 4 months ago, 4 juveniles, with
hopefully a male among them.
They grew very quickly and I
was certain that I had a male, that big looking one in the
most advantageous spot in the tank.
After 2 weeks in a
standard 18" tank my "male" had a clutch of egg"s in the
corner and was standing guard.
I rang the fish shop and
told them what -had happened, they asked me if I saw the
mating.
"No", I replied, "I always seem to miss this event
in my house." So I crossed my fingers and hoped that all
was OK. Not to be. I watched these four fish carefully and
I donated two females
found that my four were all femal~;
to the V.C.S. and kept the other two in this 2' tank. These
females would take turns laying eggs and "fertilizing·' them.
Ok, Well if you have to lay you have to lay.
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I searched the field for a 3" male lifalili and did not have
My fish shop told me to be
any luck until last week.
careful adding the male as my two females might decide that
they could do without a male, well, they had been producing
a clutch every other week so who needs one!
I put the male in and did all the things that you are
supposed to do when introducing new fish, move the rock and
decor around etc. While he was in the bag both females came
up for a look-see. Not all that interested, good thinks I,
they don't think he's a threat.
I acclimatised him and let
him out while holding my breath and crossing my fingers.
I
took up my position to watch what would happen.
The largest female took one look and must have though what a
hunk/enemy?
She put on her mating/aggression colours and
attacked.
The male started back finning like crazy and my
other female was just trying to stay out of the way.
Well,
female 1 chased male who chased female 2 all around the
tank.
I sat and umed and arded about 1) taking female 1
out. 2) taking female 2 out or 3) taking male out.
After 1 1/2 hour's I decided the male must be given a rest,
he wac;; breathing rather heavily, wouldn't you after all this
time!
As I stood up with net in hand, the male suddenly
turned arolmd and put on his breeding/aggression colours and
faced the female.
In about 1/2 seconds my larger female
quickly got a headache, lost her colour and did a quick
turnaround.
That solved the problem of taking any fish out
(I really didn't have a spare tank anyway, as my gold
Severum have been producing fry for the last 3 months).
All was quiet on the "water" front for a time, and I was
fascinated by my ceralaus who spawned on the weekend.
(These were also purchased as young but this time I got
lucky, 3 males, 3 females). All females have mouthfulls and
as this is my first mouthbrooding fish I was very happy.
It's now been 6 days since my male was introduced and coming
back from the shopping today I noticed this brilliant red in
the 2' tank.
The larger female was almost bursting with
colour.
So I sat down very quietly (with a crossword) to
wait.
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Now I have to wait about 1 week to see if these are good
parents or not.
It's been a good week for me fish wise, I
now have 1 x 3' tank with eggs (Gold Severum AGAIN!) 1 x 2
1/2' with eggs (ceralaus) and 1 x 2' with eggs (lifalili).
And I have baby guppies and 3 tanks of baby severum 1 x 3
1/3 months old, 1 x 2 1/2 months old, 1 x 1 1/2 months. I
think I will stop calling this my home and say I live in a
maternity ward. Until next time.
LYNDA PAYNE
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Hemichromis IifaJiJifemale with fry.
Photo: MARTIN CRIDDLE
Much rUCK ~leaning later (she attacked the rock as a wife
would her house, if her mother-in-law was coming to dinner)
they started to lay.
She makes circles over the rock with breeding tube touching
the surface, he will follow almost laying on his side to
fertilize.
They seem to have laid about 500 eggs in about
10 minutes and are still going as I write this.
My second
female is still in the tank as are the 2 cat fish and algae
eater, I will watch them carefully to see if they need to be
removed.
His colour is darker than hers and not much
different to his normal colouration, but she is splendid, if
I could dress up in those colours I would be very happy.
The technical stuff comes next:
Temp 800F or 27oC.
7.4, Water Hardness
400ppm.
I do a water change
week about 1 1/2 buckets (1 bucket being 8 litres).
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The Tank Decor: 1 bunch of barnacles (to help keep ph up) I
amazon sword, floating wisteria plant, rock cave in one
corner, breeding flat rock close to that and imitation log
also in the tank.
At the December meeting a sausage sizzle
will be on. And dont' foreget the pool
party in January date to be adviced so
great times ahead and fun for everyone.
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exactly sure of the size of the parents as they
were the first Cichlids I had seen that were over
six inches in length.
After being totally meSIPn1"1Sed by the gen tleness
of these "Giant" Cichlids toward their young, I
decided that I would buy one. A few months later
I purchased my first Cichlasoma umbriferum.
He
was about five or six centimetres long and cOnt
me nineteen dollars.
From what I can remember he grew fairly fast.
The only problem I had with him was that he was a
He was housed in a six by two by
complete wimp.
Central
two with similarly sized South and
American Cichlids and he constantly cowered in
the top corner of the tank.
He eventually died
due to the injuries he received when he was
beaten up by a Cichlasoma dovii half his size.
From that time on the availability of Cichlasoma
umbriferum diminished, and my desire to try them
again increased.
Cichlasoma umbriferum is a large Central American
Cichlid found in the river systems of Panama and
Columbia. C. umbriferum or the Blue Speckled
Cichlid, as it is commonly known, is probably one
of the largest Guapotes, growing to a size of at
least 22 inches or 56 centimetres.
I searched high and low, nagging anyone who I
thought might still have some of these Blue
Speckled
beauties.
After
three years
of
searchir.g I finally took ownership of fifteen
three quarter inch Cichlasoma umbriferum.
The
Blue Speckled Cichlid ~as an extremely
controversial fish when it first appeared in the
United States in 1975.
It had shown up in
various Aquarium shops quite by accident and was
called Cichlasoma unknown for five years. It was
not until 1980 that Paul Loiselle and
Jim
Langhammer finally identified Cichlasoma unknown
as Cichlasoma umbriferum
I fed these little gems the best food I could
muster up.
They devoured pellets,
flakes,
earthworms, small fish, cocktail prawns, brL~e
Ky first exPerience with C. umbriferum ~as on my
first visit to Heinz's shop in 1986.
He had a
pair of the biggest Cichlids I had ever seen. On
closer examination I noticed three or
four
hundred fry swimming around the fourteen inch
male and the twelve inch female.
I am not
shrimp and frozen bloodworws.
NOT BEEF/OX/SHEEP
OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF HEART/RED MEAT.
The group
of C. umbriferum grew fairly slowly for the first
twelve months of their life; after that their
growth rate tended to speed up slightly.
My experiences with C.
umbriferum reveal that
they are not an overly aggressive Cichlid. Males
can become slightly aggressive toward other male
C. umbriferums and other smaller fish, but are
very gentle toward their females.
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Males grow faster and larger than females.
The
colouration of the males is best described by
their common name, the Blue Speckled Cichlid.
All scales scales except those on the crown of
the head have an iridescent blue spot on them.
The Dorsal, Caudal, Anal and Pelvic fins are also
peppered
with
iridescent
blue
speckles.
Iridescent blue speckles and streaks are also
located on the gill plates, under the eyes and on
the lips.
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Femal C. umbriferums have less visible iri~escent
blue speckles.
The female I have at pres~nt has
a black streak on the anterior half of the Dorsal
fin,
very similar to that found on female
Cichlasoma festaes.
Black markings also extend
to the edges of the Pelvic fins and Anal fin.
Both male and female have two black body spots.
One occurs exactly in the centre of the body.
The second one occurs on the Caudal Puncle or at
the base of the Caudal Punc 1e .
Young C. umbriferum are easily identified from
other young Cichlids by the sharp face, the two
body spots and the elongated body shape.
The
body colouration is made up of an irregular
checker board pattern with grey, olive, brown and
silver checks.
This pattern is later covered by
blue
speckles
on
the
male
but
remains
identifiable on females, depending on mood and
life cycle.
Hales may exhibit the checker
pattern when stressed or sleeping.
During breeding periods female blue speckled
Cichlids
transform
from
their
olive-brown
colouration to a very bright chrome yellow-gold
colour with contrasting rich black markings.
Females do exhibit blue speckles on the gill
plates and under the eyes at all times, however
the ifltensity of them increases during spawning
periods.
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C. umbriferum spawn in the open on a fairly flat
and sturdy site, that is to say they do not spawn
in a cave or pipe.
C. umbriferum are not
secretive in their behaviour at all.
My pair
spawn on a chunk of red rock in the middle of the
tank.
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The pair of Blue Speckled Cichlids turned out to
be model parents.
They cared for the second
spawn until I removed them so I could raise them
separately.
may display a black lateral stripe that links the
eye with the black body spot and the black Caudal
spot.
The pair I have breeding presently are housed in
a standard four foot tank.
There is one small
cave for the female to. hide in, and a section of
terracotta pipe for the male to hide in.
I have
found that C. umbriferum are open water swimmers
and spawners, therefore I have very little in the
tank so as not to "clutter" it up.
Cicnrld
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I had to remove the second spawn from the
parents'
tank as they were "eating"
their
parents.
Young Cichlids generally feed on the
mucus layer that coats the body of their parents.
This is fine for the first couple of weeks but as
they young develop larger appetites, the coating
physically cannot be replaced fast p.nough so the
parents may succumb easily to infections and
parasites.
So as soon as the young are large
enough to be both caught and moved they sould be.
The young from the first two spawns are now
around one and a half to three centimetres long
after about ten weeks of life.
The parents are
now caring for and raising a third spawn.
t1y pair of C. umbriferum spawned many times,
unsuccessfully in a Cichlid community tank where
only ten to twenty eggs were laid.
This ceased
to occur when I moved them to a four foot tank bY'
themselves.
The first spawn in the neT-? set-up
they laid about one hundred and fifty to two
hundred eggs.
I removed the rock with the eggs
to a five litre tank where I artificially hatched
and raised them.
I did this because I wanted to
have some back-up C. umbriferums just in case
some unexpected disaster should kill the parents.
Twelve of the original fifteen had been either
slaughtered by various other Cichlids or killed
because they were deformed, and a spare male
would not be enough to replace a breeding pair.
The eggs hatched five days later, two days longer
than most other South and Central American
substrate-spawning Cichlids,
and were
free
swimming seven days after hatching.
Seven days
later the parents spawned again.
I decided to
leave the second spawn with the parents in order
to determine their level of parental care.
The Fry at 4 to 6 weeks
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most experienced.
The requirement is a large
tank and a little patience.
The Blue Speckled
Cichlid is truly a "gentle giant" .
Bibliography.
Piro, T. ( 1981) "Cichlid of the Future?",
Buntbarsche Bulletin.
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,is .:-..m opacity crf U"JE'-' lE'f'ls elf the eYE~.
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c:ic:hJids-, which ar-e kept in ttalrde, Wi::\telr •
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antagonised by cc:~lc.:iurn and h<':lr'oer- w<:\ter" ContC:UflS (Ylon,:,
calc:ium.
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The arl~:;wer-- is not. t.o add ;:,inc tD E'ithe, thf:? foed cw' water-­
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Minutes of previous meeting
The meeting opened at 8.22pm with the President
in the chair.
He welcomed all. Apologies were
received from: Glenn Briggs, Jenny Briggs, Dave
Thorn, Pieter & Jacqui Jager, Heinz Staude, Manny
Vella, Amanda Genovese, Keith Patford, Steve
Butcher, Michael Cotterill, Paul Greaves and Alan
& Justin Hawkins.
The September minutes were taken as read on a
motion moved by Peter Petrus and seconded by
Jeffery Staude.
Greg Ure stand in speaker was we lcomed.
New members Gerard Carmody, Maurice and Cathy
Breward
and
Keran Haslam welcomed by
the
President.
After the break Greg Ure then gave a slide talk
on Central and South Americans with a few Natives
thrown in. Aart moved a vote of thanks which was
carried by acclamation and presented him with his
honorary members badge.
The mini auction was then
held.
Jonathan
Shields, Daryl Hutchins and Bill Cloney thanked
for donation.
The President mentioned the election next month.
Jolm McCormick asked for reason for waiting a
month.
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Jan Szaruk - requesting info
about VCS
Craig Broderick - membership
application
This correspondence was received on
moved by Jeffery Staude and seconded
Petrus.
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Table Show results were announced.
This report was received on a motion moved
Aussie Magnussen and seconded by Ken Whelan.
Correspondence:
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Draw Prize; 1st - Peter McDonald - pearl
2nd - Leno Avellino - frozen food
3rd - Aussie Magnussen - port
Treasurers report:
The acting Treasurer read the report:
September balance
1119.73
Income
213.77
Expenditure
84.24
October balance
1249.30
Building Account
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The
Committee
believed
it
was
in
the
Constitution,
but on close reading can
be
interpreted as not essential, but due to lateness
of hour decided to leave it until next month.
The President then invited everyone to partake of
supper at 10.32 pm.
a motion
by Peter
Bill Cloney presented with his committee badge.
Aart then gave a brief resume of the Cichlid
Conference.
Bill Cloney then spoke on Crabro.
Kevin Archibald defeated Gerard Carmody in the
quiz and won a can of food.
ANOTHER
ELECTION
The npxt bV election will be at
the December MEET I NG so get those
;nominations ready people.
SpeCles/Entrant
2
3
6
Clchlaso;a severu.
Gary Van Ekeren
Aequidens rivulatus
Lino Avellino
Cichlasola alazonerul
Aart Langelaar
Cichlasola hartwegi
Peter Petrus
Cichlas08a citrenellum
Jon Shields
Clchlasola severu.
lynda Payne
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Sels
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28
19
9
9
93
28
29
18
9
8
92
28
30
19
9
8
94
25
26
16
9
7
83
77
Thanks to Kevin Archibald for judging thIS month's entries.
Jon Shields
RESULTS
1st: Jon's citreneilul
2nd: Aart's
3rd: Peter's hartwegi
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