 Basics | ||||
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| Overview | The first spawn was on Thursday 10th of December 2020. The breeding group consisted of 8 males and 2 females. The youngest adult was approximately 2 months old. The individuals were obtained from LFS "Wild Caught". | |||
| Feeding |
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| Water Parameters (at time of spawning) | ||||
| Conductivity | 100µs to 200µs | |||
| Temperature | 26.0°C to 26.5°C | |||
| Current | Medium | |||
| Other Water Params | Had been using RO water, but slowly started to use normal tap water and few if any water changes. | |||
| Aquarium | ||||
| Furniture | Lower (not lowest) shelf on the rack. | |||
| Filtration | Box filter with small power head that is sometimes used. | |||
| Lighting | LED, but kept on blue night most of the time. | |||
| Heating | 1 100W heater to keep temps constant. | |||
| Breeding | ||||
| Behaviour | Not observed. | |||
| Eggs | There were 21 eggs laid which were 0.0mm in diameter. | |||
| Segregation | Found fry in first cave after observing a dead fry in the tank. When I looked the fry were ready to leave the cave, so promptly removed to small breeder box. Most started to die off because I was not ready for them and did not have proper first-foods. | |||
| Fry sizes | 7 days: 0mm 14 days: 0mm 21 days: 0mm | |||
| Juvenile sizes | 1 month: 0mm 3 months: 0mm 6 months: 0mm | |||
| Fry and juvenile feeding | Most fry died within first week after their yoke sacks were gone. Tried micro worms and BBS but continued to die. Finally started using decaying oak leaves with bio-film and this seemed to make a turn around, after several days, introduced EBO Brine Shrimp paste and some EBO soft granules. 7 fry survived. | |||
