I have kept a group of these loaches for about 20 years. I have never seen any indication they spawn and I am not even sure what I could do to encourage them to. What really surprised me about these fish is how long they live. They compete with my clown loaches for longevity. Any clues to spawning ...

Still some eggs on tube DSCN0964.JPG All eggs in breeder box have hatched and went from egg to wall hangers for a total of 15 DSCN0966.JPG DSCN0968.JPG I put a divider in the last chamber as an extra security measure but discovered the fry are small enough to get through the slots in the divider, so...

Hi Jools

Jeanne

Nice. Did you collect the eggs? Have they spawned before? They have spawned before, but I am not able to collect eggs, this spawn took place at the opposite end of tank where the sturio eggs are, and that end of the tank has a sand substrate for the Bahuja so to try and find eggs in the sand would ...

https://youtu.be/P5MGtwsLlwM
eggs are very, very small.

Jeanne

Eggs in breeder box are starting to hatch, and they are going from hatch to free swimmers.
Jeanne

P.S. I think I peed a little.

This morning, after I fed the babies from the first two sets of babies, I was rethinking the weird dynamic of the second spawn: The first eggs started hatching on day 12 of incubation, a day later than the first spawn (that in itself is no big deal). However,... By day 17 of incubation, there were ...

Still some eggs on tube and eggs in breeder box look good. Jeanne

Amazing that Sturisomatichthys are such carnivores and not a pure herbivore/algae eater like the old literature suggested. The diet you've fed in conditioning your breeders just proves it further. I agree don't Believe everything you read in the database, and I'll try to get a pic of them eating li...

There's still a few eggs on lift tube, and the eggs I took look good.

Jeanne

Hi Jools. I randomly clicked on the Fun Stuff page today... haven't been there in a while. The page didn't load and I received this error: Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function get_contributor_from_id() in /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/common/functions/_articles.php:416 Stack tra...

Took some of the eggs yesterday when I saw Big Daddy poking around. Jeanne

Today i got 5 big L200 H. Subviridis - +20 cm tl - hoping for a future breeding group. They should be 2 males and 3 females - do you agree? Screenshot_20230322_191044_Messenger.jpg 20230322_180150.jpg 20230322_180210.jpg 20230322_180224.jpg 20230322_180245.jpg Could this be considered fish porn, an...

Looks like that young male has taken a break to feed.
And 10min. later he's back.

Jeanne

Got an answer from another Forum, export from Brazil is currently allowed for L134.

Jeanne

Showing odontodes on rear half of body,
I'm told that those bristles feel like wire, might use him to scrub my pots and pans if he doesn't spawn soon.

Jeanne

Can I ask, what do you feed the adults? They seem to be in great shape. Mainly freeze dried, black worm, tubifex, mysis, krill, plankton, brine shrimp, and I reconstitute the food in hot water I don't cook it, just put it in a small container of hot hot water, the freeze dried will float for a whil...

I unplugged that heater and I'm gonna zip tie Big Daddy to it so he can't get to this clutch of eggs.

Jeanne

P.S. see you on day 3

And wouldn't you know it in the exact same spot , I'm thinking their favoring that end of the tank because there is a lot of water movement?
and I am quite certain that I have more than one sexually mature female, as the last spawn was on
3-10-23

Jeanne

characinkid wrote: ↑19 Mar 2023, 22:58 These have been on my wishlist for a while, would be interested if you have bred them at all?

I do not have any juvies available, but you might want to contact Eric Bodrock from AllOddBallAquatics, as my fish are F1s from his wilds that he personally collected.

Jeanne

Very cool Jeanne Thank you Leporacanthicus heterodon is really high up on my list of "big plecos" ... err, big in my concept... for future tank expansion. God luck with them. Cheers, Eric it's a really nice fish, if I had a bigger aquarium I would buy a group, but unfortunately I don't ha...

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Jeanne

Was checking out my stuff/my fish and there is all kinds of fish in there that I don't even know what they are let alone keep, what gives

Jeanne

emanuel wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 21:32 Last arrived, two days ago

Very cool

Jeanne

HAMidtun wrote: ↑18 Mar 2023, 14:10 A few days since my last post here.

More plecos! And a stunning juvenile Ancistrus sp(l213) non the less

Very nice pics and where are you finding the Catfish Photography section.

Jeanne

Jeanne

I have 5 tanks in my cart at Petco but no money to pay for them, so I opened a go fund me account that reads, Can you help this dying hobbyist who has only 5yr. to live at the most, Jeanne is a hobbyist and she really, really loves raising catfish, and Jeanne is also a long time Registered Member at...

Phoenix.L wrote: ↑17 Mar 2023, 05:40 My pop up blocker doesn’t work on this site, they show up in the middle of the page blocking my view. Anyone else had this issue and solved it?

If you donate money to the site the pop ups will go away is what I was told

Jeanne

bekateen wrote: ↑17 Mar 2023, 02:57 Dang! I don't like when that happens. But you're right. More than likely, there will be more.

Cheers,
Eric

Don't know what it was that made big daddy do that or how he even knew the eggs were there

Jeanne