キアソファリンクス・フォアイ "モリロ" 第４世代
Cyathopharynx foae "Moliro" 4th Generation
親魚（第３世代）の水槽中で吐き出された稚魚（第４世代）
The 4th generation fry came out of the mother's mouth into the tank where the parental fish are kept.
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"Moliro"第３世代の誕生と成長のページで紹介した個体が成長し第４世代（generation 4: G4 いわゆるF4）を産みました。（2008年8月）
The 4th generation (G4, so called F4) of Cyathopharynx foae "Moliro". (Aug. 2008)
親魚水槽内で泳ぎだした稚魚。
Fry came out from the mouth of a G3 female.
曾祖母となるメスと新生稚魚。この水槽には４匹の第３世代と１匹の初代のメスがいます。
With their great grand mother. This tank contains one G1 female, four G3 females and one G3 male.
親魚は稚魚に無関心なようですが、食べることもありますので、稚魚はすぐに別水槽へ移しました。
Cyathopharynx属は植物食性が強いと言われ、私は配合飼料を中心に与えていますが、実際にはメダカ等の小魚を与えると食べます。（タンガニイカ・シクリッドには、生き餌を与えると腹水病などのトラブルが出やすい種が多いようですのでお勧めはしません。）
Even if the adult fish look unconcerned with the babies, they often hunt the fry in the dark. So you had better separate them on the day you find fry. C. foae do eat small fish!
５週間後、大きな水槽でトロフェウス・モーリィの幼魚と。
Five weeks later, they were transfered into a larger tank and kept with T. moorii.
生後９ヶ月。今回はトビと言われる１匹だけ成長が速い個体が出ていません。他魚に体する動きの活発なT. mooriiと混泳になっているからかも知れません。
Nine months. In this group, no fish grew much faster than others, possibly because they were kept with T. moorii that were bigger than them.
１年２ヶ月、さらに大きい水槽で単独種飼育。
One year and two months. Transfered into a bigger tank for them.
大きい水槽に移してわずか１ヶ月後、クレーター状の産卵巣が造られました。産卵も始まりましたが、初回は食卵してしまいました。経験上、初めの数回の産卵は仔魚が生まれないことが多いようです。
One morning after only one month in the new tank, a crater-like sand nest was built. The fish started spawning but the female ate the eggs at this time. In my experience, they begin to keep eggs in their mouths after a couple of abortions.
恐らく少数の卵をくわえるメス。
Female keeping eggs in its mouth. The throat swelling is not remarkable so much, possibly because only a small number of eggs are kept now.
形態異常のオス。行動は明らかにオスのものです。繁殖しないように隔離しました。
Aberrant males appeared. The feature with short ventral fins, yellowish color and black dapples is strange one, but the behavior is absolutely that of males. These males were isolated into other tank in order to avoid reproduction of this phenotype.
生後１年半の正常なオス。水槽内で一番目立ちます。
This is a normal male and now dominates in the tank. One year and a half after the birth.
１年10ヶ月。One year and ten months.
生後２年。腹ビレ先端のエッグダミーが目を引きます。
Two years. Now egg dummies at the tips of the ventral fins are appealing.
２年10ヶ月。Two years and ten months.
４年。Four years.
４年半。Four years and a half after the birth.