Pier Aquatics. There's no place better.

Enjoy your trip!

Eric

characinkid wrote: ↑Yesterday, 21:20Mine were not fertile ( you could see that they were a little white in the picture), and after 3-4 days they melted away! Ill keep trying now that I know where they lay them and how.

Sorry. Better luck with the next batch.

Cheers,
Eric

Today's pics of one of the fry. The bits stuck to it are from mulm I added to the breeder box to provide infusoria for when these start eating

A rare sighting of three of the four adults at the front of the tank (female on lower left). They think they're hiding.

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Thanks!

characinkid wrote: ↑14 Mar 2023, 19:47 Ill add onto this that my wild group of T Intermedia have spawned 3 times in the last 7 days, must be something in the air/water!

I'm earnestly waiting on mine to spawn for the first time.

Thanks, Clay!

Here's a photo of the only fish in the tank I know for sure is female (the photo in the OP is of the largest fish, I suspect a male):

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Adding a sloppy false floor on the front 1/3 of the tank under the spawning mop and potted plant: Two layers of ceiling light egg crate, one placed atop the other, and the bottom layer has a fine mesh net tied to it.

Let's see if this improves egg recovery on the next spawn.

Cheers, Eric

Thanks Jools and Shane!

Three have hatched this morning and I see one additional egg unhatched. Don't know what happened to the other two.

The hatchlings are tiny! They remind me of cory hatchlings.

Cheers, Eric

Babies doing great!.

I find it weird that dad repeatedly leaves his eggs. I don't know if any other species that does this regularly.

Cheers,
Eric

Hi ludez,

Welcome to Planetcatfish!

Can Peckoltia vittata have a marked belly?

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Eric

Found a sixth egg today. It seems to have been laid yesterday, as it has an obvious embryo on it, although I don't know if it's alive. It lacks its jelly coat.

The other eggs are still going, and I can see tiny embryos growing on them too.

Cheers, Eric

Manoa, @Shane is the expert in that region. He knows more than we can imagine about that area.

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Hi Manoah,

Yes, it is common to catch two or three species of cory in the same stream or pond at the same time.

Cheers, Eric

Congratulations HH!

Congrats Eric and of all the fish you brought back I like the Hemis and Morrowis the best and have you ever purchased fish for others, kinda of like when you go could you see if they have this or would that be too much of a headache. Jeanne Hi Jeanne, Yes I did that last time. Honestly, the shipmen...

Awesome hope the eggs are fertil I saw the blog report update, wow. That's a pretty cool one! Jools Thanks to both of you! I think I need to set up an egg catcher for these. They are obviously egg scatterers, and the female was really fat, so I'm sure she laid more eggs than these five. I pushed th...

Hi All, Back in November 2022 ( this post ), I imported 4 Amblydoras nauticus from a creek off the Rio Nanay outside of Iquitos, Peru. Today I discovered four ... correction, five... fresh eggs! :heart: 20230328_102927_exported_31883.jpg 20230328_101434~2.jpg 20230328_103922~2.jpg 20230328_104037~2....

Nice.

This is from a 1980s paper. It does not put the two species close together. But considering its age, I don't know if this is still correct.

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Was that second spawn actually two spawns at once? The mystery may be solved! Dad's already on eggs for two days, and another female is back in his bamboo laying MORE eggs! 20230325_165556_exported_24071.jpg Cheers, Eric Rineloricaria lanceolata: One male. One bamboo pipe. Two spawns at once? TWICE?...

Nice. Did you collect the eggs? Have they spawned before?

Hi Jeanne, so far, I've pulled out only 3 or 4 dead from the first spawn. I imagine a few more have have died, but I haven't seen more dead bodies from that box and I still have at least 100 of the one-month old babies. So survival rate is over 90% at this time.

Cheers, Eric

Thank you.

Congratulations! I hope they are fertile and do well!

Best,
Eric

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 a...

Interviewing an uninvolved scientist is a common practice when reporting on scientific findings. I don't know why.

No matter, you're famous! What's next? Social influencer?

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sturiosoma wrote: ↑24 Mar 2023, 09:12 Oh NO just when I thought there might be something fun to do here.

Jeanne

LOL. Sorry to disappoint.

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CW027, also Colombian, is similar.

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Catfish-ologist wrote: ↑24 Mar 2023, 00:47 Those are Balroglanis Sp. Peru.
I know the guy that runs that place. He has helped me get some pretty unique woodcats!

Hi Catfish-ologist... Is that the same thing as what we have here as Centromochlus macracanthus?