I also cannot add any pictures to my breeding report. I select images and the filename shows up in the field, but Save & Publish and it was never uploaded.

Here is a pic of the 10 gallon grow out tank. Still has some green water and pic is after a water change. The sides are filthy with film and these tiny white paramecium shaped worms which chased the detritus worms away (or ate them). Hopefully when the otos are bigger they will eat these critters to...

Have you thought about breeding Parotocinclus haroldoi (Galaxy otocinclus) or maybe the Panda Garra ,new challenge for you 😁 I see some different Paraotocinclus species in the stores every once in a while. I don't know... if I end up getting more tanks (big IF) my next species might be the more com...

Just a quick update... the juveniles are continuing to grow slowly but whenever I see them they have big bellies and pooping. So I think they are finding food, and see them on the zucchini veg regularly. I'm only counting 5 at a time but then again, they are experts at hiding. Length is still 3/4 in...

How long does it take to get the yellow color I wonder? I'm really digging the look of the adults. Nice work!

So far the 10 juveniles are doing well in the main 29 gallon. They are probably a little over a month old and the largest is 3/4 inch. Growth seems to have slowed to me but maybe I'm just getting impatient. It's also frustrating only seeing 5 or so juveniles at a time since they hide so well. But al...

The 10 gallon grow out is not ready yet for fish but I decided to let the 10 juveniles out into the main tank. They were becoming very skittish in the breeder so I think it was stressing them out somewhat. They should be too big to be eaten by purple rasboras now and they will enjoy the space and to...

The adults have been spawning maybe once a week since I started reporting it. They might be taking turns and not all spawning at once I can't tell the two younger ones apart so I don't know who is doing what. One of the weeks there were several unfertilized eggs and not much else. But then a batch o...

Well the spirulina powder was a bust. The brand I got is a super fine powder that just clouds the water it's not even big enough to sink. I'll stick to Repashy for now. I've also started introducing small piece of Xtreme Scrapers wafer and I think a couple of them have taken interest so far....

Here is a video of a couple of them at 2 weeks growth. Not the greatest quality... it is getting harder to get a good video at this size with the camera I'm using. They recently developed this "silver skin" on their bellies (is it muscle?) so I can't see the innards any longer. But you can...

I saw spawning behavior yesterday and found 8 eggs in the tank. I think I confirmed I have 3 males and 3 females as I saw the larger pair spawning too. This was two days after a large 50% water change. Also the weather cooled and tank temp went down naturally from 78 degrees to 75 degrees. I wish I ...

Mmm yes I have a similar theory where I had ammonia problems and I think it was from Bacter + too much Repashy. Big water changes to lower that were done and may have triggered the spawning. Haven't had a problem since. Fry still seem to be eating well and pooping. I have a few stems of bacopa that ...

Here is another video. I estimate they are about 7 days old. They are 1cm long now and the zebra coloration is starting to come through. You can see in the first clip it eating what appears to be diatom algae(?). They are eating and pooping normally so this is a good sign!! I put two trimmings of ba...

So far I have found a total of 5 fry. They seem to eventually move up toward the surface. In the breeder tank they are almost all up near the surface now. Should be interesting trying to get them to feed. I took some nice closeup video of the fry from underneath and on the side. I would say they are...

Well it looks like there was some dumb luck involved here. I was able to see 2 wigglers on the glass today in the main tank, and moved them to the breeder box. Unfortunately I don't know if they were from the first spawn or not but maybe. I have been looking through the bacopa carefully several time...

Well it appears all the eggs had fungus after 2 days so either I didn't get to the first fungused egg early enough or screwed something else up. I ordered some methylene blue, is that what Loricariidae owners use for eggs? :( I'll have to read up more on egg care. I found 3 unfertilized eggs this mo...

Yes just having a brand new breeder box without a biofilm already might be a problem. Hopefully they take to the Bacter AE and repashy powders I will give them. I think there are 3 males and 3 females in this group. None of the females were visibly heavy with eggs so I'm basing it mostly on body sha...

Hello everyone, So today I found eggs!!! While searching for more eggs I saw a single spawning behavior event from a smaller female than the previous video, but I don't know who laid the eggs. I'm hoping to get video of actual egg laying at some point... that would be cool. Here are the observations...

I recently purchased 6 Otocinclus cocama for a heavily planted 29 gallon. They are considered the main fish (other residents are a school of purple rasboras). My intention from the beginning was to eventually breed them. Today I was able to see spawning behavior twice. I consider myself lucky here a...

There is a really old post where someone said they lost a lot of otos feeding them frozen bloodworms. And their description of symptoms looks like your latest picture. I don't know if that's general digestive blockage/problems or specific to the food. https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.ph...