 Basics | |||||||
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| Overview | The first spawn was on Tuesday 9th of July 2013. The breeding group consisted of 4 males and 2 females. The youngest adult was approximately 24 months old. The individuals were obtained from MAS meeting (mini-auction). | ||||||
| Feeding |
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| Water Parameters (at time of spawning) | |||||||
| pH | 7.40 to 7.60 | ||||||
| Temperature | 23.5°C to 25.5°C | ||||||
| Current | Air (vertical) | ||||||
| Aquarium | |||||||
| Dimensions | The aquarium dimensions were 1219mm x 318mm x 325mm (48" x 12.5" x 12.8") all Length x Width x Height. | ||||||
| Furniture | Silica sand substrate, several small clumps of floating hornwort, Ceratophyllum demersum | ||||||
| Filtration | 3 sponge filters and 2 Aqueon 10 HOB filters | ||||||
| Lighting | 1 40 watt florescent | ||||||
| Heating | Room temperature (around 74 -78 deg F in the summer months) | ||||||
| Breeding | |||||||
| Behaviour | These fish are almost always "in the mood", they spawn once or twice every week. They are also always pretty active, either searching for food or swimming up and down the glass looking for a spawning site. Today they spawned all day, I saw the first group of around 50 eggs laid on a floating plastic container already holding older eggs at about 7:00 am this morning. By 10 pm there were 5 clusters of eggs on outside of the floating container, total of 167 eggs. | ||||||
| Eggs | _aeneus_eggs/1.jpg) There were 167 clear to white eggs laid which were 1.7mm in diameter. | ||||||
| Segregation | Eggs removed to hatching container, one Alder cone and moderate aeration added. | ||||||
| Fry sizes | 7 days: 0mm 14 days: 0mm 21 days: 0mm | ||||||
| Juvenile sizes | 1 month: 0mm 3 months: 0mm 6 months: 0mm | ||||||
