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My young pair of Parachromis motaguense 'Red Tiger' F1 recently bred and their fry became free swimming so I took a video and a few pictures.

A wild caught pair of Amatitlania siquia 'Rio Tempisque' defending fry in a community tank. You can see the female collecting fry in her mouth and moving them to safety. Great parental care!

Young adult pair of exCichlasoma festae spawning, there is a lot of eggs inside the plant pot. These are very aggressive fish, common name Red Terror.
Thanks for watching,
Dave

My Wild caught pair of exCichlasoma festae aka Red Terrors have spawned, you may not be able to see, but the eggs are in the terracotta pot, there are a lot of eggs, hopefully this spawn will be bigger than the last of around 100 fry.

Sorry about the background noise!

A short underwater video of a beautiful group of Poecilia velifera livebearers, more commonly known as the Sailfin Molly. This video was shot in Cenote Cristalino, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Seeing this fish in the wild, baffles me as to why people have line bred the fish for different colours, which take away from their real beauty. Note, it has now been suggested that these fish are P.velifera, not P.latipinna, I agree with this hence why I have changed the title of the video. Enjoy!

Wild caught Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora 'Rio Tempisque' gorging themselves on live Mosquito larvae. Also know as lace brachys, this beautiful livebearer found in Costa Rica is a great fish to keep, on the day of shooting this video, 29 and counting fry was removed to grow on.

A quick video of my wild caught pair of Caquetaia umbriferus from 'Rio Magdalena' tending to their newly hatched fry. Watch as the female takes the just hatched fry to a separate pit.