Red lizard eggs

[Xod, posts: 43]

Check it out, just bought this Marina breeder. Its really well equipped. Great buy.




This is the cave.

[tomr, posts: 147]

Mine were in a bare 10 gallon with a sponge. i pulled the male and tube and put in one of those marina breeders. When the eggs hatched i took the male and left them . i should have left them in there longer cause it would have been easier to feed the fry.

[jp11biod, posts: 130]

those Marina breeding boxes are awesome

[tomr, posts: 147]

Well all of the fry are dead. As luck would have it, tthe parents laid eggs again. hopefully better luck this time.

[Xod, posts: 43]

sorry for the loss. good news to hear they bred again. Does anyone have information about breeding plecos with baby RCS? I currently just had two females spawn about 30 shrimps and was wondering if it would be a good idea to grow them up together. Since the RCS can clean off any excess food.

[MatsP]

sorry for the loss. good news to hear they bred again. Does anyone have information about breeding plecos with baby RCS? I currently just had two females spawn about 30 shrimps and was wondering if it would be a good idea to grow them up together. Since the RCS can clean off any excess food.

My shrimp aren't exactly muliplying (by a number higher than 1 at least), but they don't harm pleco babies in any way.

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Mats

[apistomaster, posts: 4569]

Those Marina Breeder boxes look like a nice accessory to have.
I find that shrimp colonies are much easier to establish if you start with as large a group as possible. I recommend no fewer than 25 to start.

[Xod, posts: 43]

I currently house about 50 shrimps. Typically their off springs get eaten by my tetras. This is the first time I bred them in the marina and they sure grow fast. Little guys molt after one day of birth.

I'll grow the shrimps and plecos together in the marina breeder box and see how that goes.

[Xod, posts: 43]

A pic of the eggs at 5 days.

[Xod, posts: 43]

Woke up this morning to find half the eggs have hatched.. however no fry. Would the father have eaten them?

[apistomaster, posts: 4569]

I believe my males or the other adult L10a do sometimes eat the young.
This is unusual for a Loricaridid but so is much of everything else about these fish.
Most whiptail or Sturisoma types have a short period of vulnerability just after they hatch but before they have finished using up their approximately two days worth of energy derived from their residual egg yolks. They are quite helpless for about a 48 hours period.

[Xod, posts: 43]

I removed the male and resorted to artificial hatching. I hope i can at least see some frys

[tomr, posts: 147]

My male is still guarding. should hatch soon.

[Xod, posts: 43]

nice, I think I have dead wigglers. Basically I see a body outside of the egg but no movement.. I assume the egg then becomes a yolk sac.

Kinda like a sperm cell.. has a tail, head, and eyes.

[tomr, posts: 147]

the eggs are now hatching. About 11 days at 77F.

[donpetty, posts: 96]

Hi I wanted to update you that my L10a's spawned again, this time I removed the tube and eggs into one of those new Marina HOB breeding boxes, so that they could enjoy the tank water at the temperature of the adults.
This seems to have worked much better as the two previews times as I may have said resulted in someone, likely the females munching out on the eggs. I did not use any meth blue, but I did add an air stone in one end of the clay tube to make sure a current was moving across the eggs. All of the eggs hatched on Tuesday and the fry seem to be doing well;
I count at least 11 of them, I am not sure what a normal clutch size is and as they were laid inside of the tube I had no way to count them. I did see one that looked like it still had a sac, but the rest seem to be looking for food. I moved them into a tub that I house new Cory fry in, in hopes that the Cory fry will keep them moving about, the tub contains Kapata leaf, aged sponges, I am feeding micro worms, baby brine and fry powder. One note per my previous post, I did add a heater back to the adult tank and that seemed to brighten them up, so maybe I was keeping them too cool. Here is a shot of one of the young. Thanks for all of the great advice in this post! It obviously worked.
Don