Rineloricaria eigenmanni spawn

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Rineloricaria eigenmanni spawn

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Moderator note: This spawning thread was split off from another thread on the identification of this species: Rineloricaria eigenmanni or parva?

Do female whiptails develop pectoral odontodes? If not, funny thing... the fish with the darkest marks which I thought was male is the only one without them. The other two with lighter markings have them. The fish shown below is the lightest colored in the photos above showing the three side by side. Originally, I thought this light fish was the only female, but now it has odontodes. So far, this light fish has only pectoral spine and ray odontodes. The medium colored fish has odontodes on its pectoral spine and rays, and also on top of its head, near or on the supraoccipital.

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Got three more to build my group to six. These are smaller than the other three are today, so I'll have to wait to sex them. Time will tell.

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I guess you need to grow them out and see what they do. They are pretty
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:-BD Cheers
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They spawned! :-) \:d/

The male is definitely one of the newer fish I got (only one month ago), rather than either of the two large husky males I've had from the beginning. I believe the female is also one of the new fish, as the spawning male and a female were already together in the cave when I went to sleep last night (although she hadn't yet laid any eggs), but my big female from the first purchase was loose in the tank at that time. That said, I cannot guarantee that the females didn't change places while I slept (I don't expect it to have happened, but who knows?)

At the same time as the breeding pair was inside this small (just over 1" diameter) bamboo pipe, there was (and still is) also a second male (one of my older big males) in a neighboring clay pipe for the last couple of days; so far, I haven't seen a female in there with him, but maybe, just maybe, if the first pair was pumping out some spawning pheromones in the water last night when they spawned, maybe it will trigger another female to enter the second clay pipe and spawn with this bigger male. I don't want to be greedy, but that would be awesome! ;-)

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P.S., I'm reading the other BLOGs on this species. They say it takes 7-10 days for the eggs to hatch! This long wait will be torturous on my anticipation! :))
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Tonight I removed the entire pipe from the tank and isolated it in a 2 gal/8L tank with its own air pump and sponge filter. I redirected the air and water current to travel up the pipe (but air against the roof of the pipe, not the floor where the eggs are). I also put an empty pipe into the parents' tank. Let's see if the whips move back in and spawn again. Fingers crossed.

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Differences in base color among my R. eigenmanni.
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None of the eggs hatched from the first spawn. They fungused late in incubation within the 2 gal. incubation tank. A second spawn occurred on March 5th. I left the eggs with dad in the main community tank. On March 11 (day 6 of incubation, the dad was gone and most of the eggs seemed to have hatched and died immediately. But two eggs remained in the bamboo pipe. I moved the pipe to a fry basket, and today I found a fry. This is my first R. eigenmanni fry hatched yesterday or the day before, on day 7 or 8 of incubation. Unless some fry also hatched and survived in the tank, this is my only fry from this spawn.

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2020-March-20. Third spawn overnight last night. :YMPARTY: #CoronavirusSexyTime!
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bekateen wrote: 20 Mar 2020, 14:12 2020-March-20. Third spawn overnight last night. :YMPARTY: #CoronavirusSexyTime!
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Thanks! I did find one survivor from the second spawn who is doing well. I'd like to get it some brothers and sisters too! :-)

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Fourth spawn today, occurred between 9AM and noon. Parents abandoned the pipe while I was doing a water change (I did not know they had spawned). This seems like a sloppy spawn with eggs more scattered than usual in pipe. I wonder if this was a new couple spawning. I haven't had good hatching so far (all the eggs from spawn #3 fungused), I used a soft plastic pipette and a dental toothpick to work each egg out individually. I know one egg burst. I recovered 103 intact eggs. Let's see how they develop in a fry basket. #CoronavirusSexyTime
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Arrrggg! Came home today to find three small Ancistrus have breached the egg basket and there are far fewer eggs. Dang! I removed the BNs and fortified the attachment of the basket to avoid the same fate repeated. Let's hope and pray the remaining eggs develop.
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Fifth spawn today, occurred between 9AM and 8PM (while I was at work). This dad seems well seated on his eggs, so I'm going to leave them alone for now.
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While the dad from the most recent spawn continues to brood his eggs, another spawn is occurring right now (8:00am) in a nearby pipe. This spawn is really sloppy, with many eggs scattered outside the mouth of the pipe. I suspect the pair didn't move deep enough into the pipe to secure the eggs as they are laid. Oh well, let's hope for the best! #CoronavirusSexyTime
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Came home from work tonight to find this: Even more eggs were thrown around as the day went on. In fact, very few (30-50) eggs are in the cave. :))
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Finally, a successful hatch. Regarding the 02-April spawn, I left dad in the cave in the tank. On 10-April, I moved the entire pipe, with dad on the eggs, into a fry basket positioned in front of the output from a powerhead. Over the course of 10-April to 12-April, the eggs hatched. This morning I removed the pipe from the basket and released dad back into the tank. Unfortunately, I did not notice at least 10 babies sucking onto dad or under him in the pipe, so when I released dad, I accidentally released at least 10 fry. That said, I think there are still over 100 (no, revised to over 125) fry in the basket. Yay!
bekateen wrote: 21 Feb 2020, 19:31P.S., I'm reading the other BLOGs on this species. They say it takes 7-10 days for the eggs to hatch! This long wait will be torturous on my anticipation! :))
The hatching of this spawn explains most of the range in the BLOGs - these eggs started hatching on day 8 and finished hatching on day 10.

Also visible in the basket are the sand-coated eggs recovered from the 06-April spawn that was so messy. A few of those eggs have fungused, but many are still developing. And back in the tank, that 06-April dad continues to sit on the few eggs he and his Mrs. managed to lay in the cave.

On a separate subject, I noticed that the 02-April dad's color changed dramatically over the 10 days while he incubated the eggs. I've shown elsewhere (HERE) that my adults have either a yellow-tan base color or a blue-gray base color. Well, this dad, after 10 days of incubating eggs, is a faint red color. Spectacular change. I wish he stayed that color, but I imagine he will revert back to tan.

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Oldest single fry reached one month old today, 20mm SL.

Also today, I removed the tube with spawn #6 and I used a bamboo shish kabob skewer to carefully detach the eggs dad was still guarding. It is day 8 of their incubation. I transferred the eggs to the basket housing the 125+ hatchlings from spawn #5 and also the dozens of still-developing, sand-coated eggs I collected after the mess of spawn #6. These should hatch in the next two days.
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Those eggs from sloppy spawn #6 started hatching today. With their green yolky bellies, they stand out from the spawn #5 fry which hatched four days ago.

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Spawn #7 occurring this morning. The cold thing is this: the female started with one male in one pipe, then switched to another pipe (without spawning in the first) with a different male and now she's laying her eggs. That first male... poor soul is he. :)) #CoronavirusSexyTime
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  • 06 April: Spawn #6 (4 day interval, or 12 days if this was the female from spawn #4)
  • 18 April: Spawn #7 (12 day interval, or 16 days if this was the female from spawn #5)
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I seem to have found an incubation system that works in this tank.

I treated spawn #7 in the same manner as spawn #5: I left dad in the pipe with his eggs in the aquarium for 7 days, then moved the whole pipe (with dad and eggs inside) into a fry basket with a cluster of oak leaves inside, positioned in front of powerhead outflow. A few eggs hatched on day 8. The remaining eggs hatched on day 9. In total, I counted 150 fry, plus more which I didn't attempt to count as they were hiding in a cluster of oak leaves. Perhaps significant, the dad of spawn #7 is the same dad as spawn #5, the red male.

As an update on spawns #5 and 6, they are growing well but I'm losing 3-5 fry per day. I wouldn't expect all the fry (nearly 200 from both spawns #5 & #6) to survive, but this mortality seems high to me. Maybe not.

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With your eggs fungusing when removed from the cave, have you considered meth blue in a separate hatch tank? I have BN and leave the eggs with the male until hatched and egg yoke consumed.
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fishguy1978 wrote: 27 Apr 2020, 21:12With your eggs fungusing when removed from the cave, have you considered meth blue in a separate hatch tank? I have BN and leave the eggs with the male until hatched and egg yoke consumed.
The eggs are really difficult to remove from the tubes/pipes. When I had the 1st spawn, the spawn where I removed the entire pipe without dad (instead of leaving him in the tube with the eggs), I placed the tube in a 2-2.5 gal aquarium with a sponge filter. That tank did get a dose of methylene blue. But many of the eggs fungused early and all the eggs died eventually. I think it could be worked out, but since my current method has worked well twice (leave dad with eggs in pipe and isolate the whole pipe with dad inside), I'm going to keep on doing this for now.

One thing I've been pondering is why don't the eggs fungus in dad's care? These whiptails are not like plecos - they don't fan the eggs, they don't move the eggs and dribble or tumble them as some dad plecos do. No, rather they just sit on them. I wonder if there are anti-fungal chemicals in the slime secretions from the father's belly which, when combined with (I speculate, since I haven't seen it) occasional cleanings with dad's lips, serve to keep the eggs fungus-free.

I would imagine that methylene blue or some other chemicals might suffice if needed but only it's only needed if you can remove the eggs from dad and maybe even get them free from the tube wall (e.g., using sodium sulfite to dissolve the egg jelly).

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Ah, I should have read more closely. Great read.
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Spawn #8 2020‐04-29 between 6pm and 9pm.

I'm guessing this is the same male, and maybe same female, as in spawn #6. The couple is in the same pipe, and the eggs are all over the sand. What a mess. So far, I don't see a single egg in the pipe yet. About 90 minutes after the first photo, I returned and found the eggs devastated by other fish in the tank... not eaten, but buried and dispersed. I managed to recover 139 sand-coated eggs. Into an incubation basket they went. Let's see if they hatch (fortunately, the same lost eggs from spawn #6 did pretty well hatching, so hopefully these do too).

The problem appears to be that the male (and/or female) doesn't enter far enough into the pipe. If he stays with his tail hanging out, she can't follow inside #CoronavirusSexyTime
  • 21 February: Spawn #1
  • 05 March: Spawn#2 (13 day interval)
  • 20 March: Spawn #3 (15 day interval)
  • 28 March: Spawn #4 (8 day interval)
  • 02 April: Spawn #5 (5 day interval, or 13 days if this was the female from spawn #3)
  • 06 April: Spawn #6 (4 day interval, or 12 days if this was the female from spawn #4)
  • 18 April: Spawn #7 (12 day interval, or 16 days if this was the female from spawn #5)
  • 29 April: Spawn #8 (11 day interval since spawn #7, or 23 days if this was the female from spawn #6)
FWIW, there's a second couple together right now also. This happened last time for spawn #7, but the second couple didn't breed that time. Maybe this time?

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bekateen wrote: 30 Apr 2020, 04:40FWIW, there's a second couple together right now also. This happened last time for spawn #7, but the second couple didn't breed that time. Maybe this time?
Success! The second pair finished spawning overnight and they did it the right way, with their eggs in the pipe.

Spawn # 2020‐04-29 between 6pm and midnight. #CoronavirusSexyTime
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  • 06 April: Spawn #6 (4 day interval, or 12 days if this was the female from spawn #4)
  • 18 April: Spawn #7 (12 day interval, or 16 days if this was the female from spawn #5)
  • 29 April: Spawn #8 (11 days if this was the female from spawn #6)
  • 29 April: Spawn #9 (23 day interval since spawn #7)
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Update on oldest fry (from spawn #2, eggs laid 05 March, eggs hatched about 12-13 March; here), now 7 weeks old and over 3cm SL.
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The 2.8 spawns per week has stopped in my tanks, but spawns are still happening. Today I found another Rineloricaria eigenmanni spawn, with the red male brooding the eggs! :-BD

As to day counts, 20 days since spawn #9. #CoronavirusSexyTime

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Three months, 46 mm SL
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Nice work Eric. Gotta love those green eggs even without the ham.

I do have one suggestion. Very early on I used those mesh baskets. I lost fish. Years later I discovered the marina hang-on traps which use an air pump to move tank water through the breeder box which is a solid plastic. There is only one caveat when using these, the intake tends to bring in any solids in the water which tend to settle on the bottom of the box. There are two ways to deal with this. The easiest it to put a fine mesh bag over the intake. The other is to use an airline to siphon out the debris once or twice a day.

These boxes hang off of the front of any tank against a wall, but you can hang them wherever they fit. The eggs or fry are safe. I will sometimes pull a cave with dad on wigglers to the trap. When the fry are let out, the cave and dad go back.

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I have 6 or 8 of these boxes. I also use them to hold fish pending shipping or to sort fish into different size groups when I do a fry hunt.
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