 Basics | ||||
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| Overview | The first spawn was on Tuesday 20th of January 2015. The breeding group consisted of 3 males and 3 females. The youngest adult was approximately 3 months old. The individuals were obtained from F1 from Mummymonkey. | |||
| Feeding |
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| Water Parameters (at time of spawning) | ||||
| pH | 5.50 to 5.50 | |||
| Temperature | 26.0°C to 27.0°C | |||
| Current | Gentle | |||
| Other Water Params | From middle of december they had only 10-15 cm of water, almost no flow in the tank, 30 degrees, frugal with food and only green flakes/tablet. 6.January we fill the tank with water from our zebratank and generously feeding with a lot of "red food", frozen food, and today they have spawned. Temperatur from 6.january 26-27, more flow and oxygene. No fresh water since the middle of december. | |||
| Aquarium | ||||
| Dimensions | The aquarium dimensions were 600mm x 300mm x 400mm (23.6" x 11.8" x 15.7") all Length x Width x Height. | |||
| Furniture | Sand, roots, some javamoss, pistia stratiotes and leafs. | |||
| Filtration | HMF and external eheim | |||
| Lighting | 2 x T8 | |||
| Heating | Internal heater | |||
| Breeding | ||||
| Behaviour | I don't see the mating. All eggs in the floating plants. | |||
| Eggs | _eques_eggs/1.jpg) There were 80 clear eggs laid which were 1.8mm in diameter. | |||
| Time to hatch | 4 days Number: 60 Free swimming: 60 days | |||
| Segregation | Eggs hatched in egg-tumbler and breedingbox. Fry in two breedingboxes after hatching. | |||
| Fry sizes | 7 days: 6mm 14 days: 0mm 21 days: 0mm | |||
| 7 days | _eques_7d/1.jpg) | |||
| 14 days | _eques_14d/1.jpg) | |||
| 21 days | _eques_21d/1.jpg) | |||
| Juvenile sizes | 1 month: 0mm 3 months: 0mm 6 months: 0mm | |||
| 1 month | _eques_1m/1.jpg) | |||
| Fry and juvenile feeding | First food was micro worm and newly hatched artemia. Then they got JBL and tropican pills, Repashy and frozen small food. | |||
