 Basics | ||||
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| Overview | The first spawn was on Monday 15th of June 2020. The breeding group consisted of 1 male and 1 female. The smallest male was at least 200mm SL and the smallest female was at least 185mm SL. The youngest adult was approximately 20 months old. The individuals were obtained from Wild Import. | |||
| Feeding |
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| Water Parameters (at time of spawning) | ||||
| Conductivity | 100µs to 200µs | |||
| Temperature | 26.0°C to 27.0°C | |||
| Current | Medium | |||
| Other Water Params | Was keeping them with 20% water change each week with 100% RO water, in a well planted, low tech tank. Lately started doing water chnages with RO water + 20% filtered(through activated carbon) tap water and saw fry a couple weeks later | |||
| Aquarium | ||||
| Dimensions | The aquarium dimensions were 1000mm x 400mm x 500mm (39.4" x 15.7" x 19.7") all Length x Width x Height. | |||
| Furniture | Well planted, low tech tank with lost of woods | |||
| Filtration | Internal filter driven by 1000l/h pump. Extra Maxijet 1200 for flow | |||
| Lighting | 2x Sera LED Daylight | |||
| Heating | 200W Eheim with Schego controller | |||
| Breeding | ||||
| Behaviour | The fish stayed on a slanting piece of wood and did not came down for food together as they used to. Then saw fry in a week | |||
| Segregation | So far found 5 fry in the tank with the adults and there are possibly more as its a heavily planted and wooded tank. I took some fry to raise them in a different planted tank and left some with the parents to raise survival odds | |||
| Fry sizes | 7 days: 0mm 14 days: 0mm 21 days: 0mm | |||
| Juvenile sizes | 1 month: 0mm 3 months: 0mm 6 months: 0mm | |||
