The spawning of fish or inverts.
Things are heating up in the fish room and Papa “Pucallpa Gold” is tending eggs again.
At some point last night, this little dickens made an early escape from the cave.
Probably be a few days before the rest of the brood joins the escapee!
Back in October I picked up a bag of Devario acrostomus at the C.A.F.E. fall auction, (http://ballaquatics.com/general/devario-acrostomus-a-fall-auction-treasure/). Well for lack of a better place to keep them, I put them into a 20 gallon long that was over-grown with some vals that I had picked up at the C.A.F.E. spring auction. Can you tell I really like the local club auctions? Continue reading Devario acrostomus spawning
There are just too many fish and not enough time. I guess that’s why I feel compelled to put together a spawning plan every year of the fish I’d like to work with. Going through the fish room it’s easy to rule out some of the fish. The 046, 183 & 201 plecos are all too young to spawn yet. I have plenty of Danio roseus, D. kerri, D. rerio var. frankei, D meghalayensis, Devario assamensis, and D. acrostomus on hand already. Continue reading Spawning Plans…..
Back in the spring at our annual club swap meet, I picked up some very cool little Ricefish from another club member, Mark Miller. I hadn’t really done much with these guys other than to marvel at how their eyes glow a very bright blue. They are so bright that they catch your attention from across the room.
I have the species Oryzias woworae. These fish come from the island of Sulawesi which is home to 17 Oryzias species described to date. Continue reading Spawning Ricefish
Back around the first of the year Petsmart was having a sale on Otocinclus for $1 each. Each spring for the past couple of years I’ve wanted to try spawning these fish so I picked up a couple bags for a later project.
They have been eating lots of Repashy “Soilent Green” and fattened up very nicely.
The spawning set-up is a standard 10 gallon tank with some anubias and crypts. It has a course black substrate and the water is very soft being almost pure rain water. I have a small heater set to keep the temperature at 78 °F.
The fish must be happy because today while doing water changes I found the first fry!
If I can get these fry to adult hood it will be interesting to see if tank raised Otos are a bit more hardy than the store bought variety.
Here are some photos of the fry just a couple of days later…..
