Sturisoma panamense (Royal Farlowella) breeding

[Starsplitter7]

I am a member of a local fish club, and we have a gentleman who is an accomplished fish breeder including many types of plecos, general catfish and many other fish.

He has Royal Farlowella and they produce eggs regularly, but out of many clutches only 14 have survived. This is over a period of years.

Does anyone have any tricks for raising the eggs of this fish? He has tried most of the suggestions posted here. I am mostly asking if anyone has successfully raised this fish, could you send me the parameters you used, what is the substrate, decore, type of driftwood, temperature of water?

Thanks.

[MatsP]

The difficulty, in my experience, with breeding Sturisoma is to make them feed. Or, to get the food to them, so that they will eat it.

I seem to remember there is an article in Shane's world about breeding Sturisoma. I'll have a look and link to it.

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Mats

[Starsplitter7]

I looked through the articles and I read an excellent article about raising fry. http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... +Sturisoma

I will forward it to my friend, and I hope he hasn't tried these techniques.

If this is not the article you mean, could you please post the other one for me? I am hoping we find a technique he hasn't tried so that he is finally able to solve his problem.

Thank you.

[MatsP]

That's the one I was thinking of.

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Mats

[Starsplitter7]

Thanks for your help. I will post if this helps.

[Barbie]

My experience with these fish was that they are highly cannibalistic, even if you keep enough food available for them. High protein, high fiber food kept that from being as much of an issue, but it is hard to crowd them enough to get the food there without causing aggression. I used NLS grow pellets quite successfully. I do not think that water parameters are as important (if the eggs are hatching and fry are free swimming, that is), as keeping them well filtered, aerated, and consistent.

Barbie