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Was pretty devastated when the C. Trewavasae mouthful was a dud then noticed some movement in the tank next to them....

I first saw N. Beusheri about ten years ago in a shop down here in Melbourne. Eric's aquarium in Essendon I can't remember the name its been closed for years. He had them breeding in a tank on their own, sand substrate small rock pile in the middle. He wouldn't part with any as he said he only had two spawns of 3 and they were so agro that he wanted to grow out some back ups. Overly aggressive, small spawns, hardly around so impossible to replace, I was hooked.

Sadly they disappeared when the new owner took over after Eric retired. I saw them come up again as a pair for sale but I didn't have a tank at the time. Finally they came in again about 18 months ago, I grabbed 6. Lost them all, few different factors. Then they came in again about 7 months or so. I tentatively grabbed another 4. Set them up a bit different to the first time.

I went for what I hoped was 2 male 2 female. Within a week the largest and the smallest staked out a barnacle cluster each at opposite ends of the tank (3x18) and pushed the other two and a young trio of calvus up to the water line. I left them settle for a couple of months everything was eating and no ripped find but the pair wouldn't let anything come down anywhere near the substrate.

I eventually removed the two spares into another 3x18 with a few other spares that have been kicked out of other tanks. This tank has fine sand that's very light and the two beusheri look completely different to the main pair which are on black sand, barely look like the same species let alone locality. To my surprise the spares paired up and took over this tank aswell.

Anyway, getting to the point. The main pair are on their own now calvus have been moved, being fry predators and all. I noticed one single little fry a couple of weeks ago but never saw it again thought the calvus had taken it. But carefully watching the tank on the weekend I saw a group of established fry cruising around the males end under the sponge filter under the watchful eye of dad and down the females end she has another group of very young fry chasing each other around. So in summary, I'm pretty damn stoked

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