The other day I took all the bogwood out of one of my tanks in order to capture all the baby uarus to be sold and decided to transfer my microglanis to another tank.
After I had captured a few I caught a really small one and thought to myself 'poor little fish he's not getting much to eat' and plopped him into the tank with the others.
I caught a few more and some of them were really small too. After catching the tenth one I thought hang on a minute I havn't got ten bumblebees.
Fifteen fish later and they were all captured, don't get me wrong these were not fry, it must have happened a good while ago as they were about15mm long and skinny whereas the origoinal 8 are big and fat.
So anyway, they breed. I don't know why or what happened to trigger them off but here are the specs.
Tank:
500litre tank full of bogwood and sand with v-strong current
Ph 6.8
Hardness almost zero
Feeding whatever goes in the tank (dried food veg and standard flake,water fleas, river shrimp all live)
Temperature 28c
Tankmates lots of baby uaru, endlers livebearers,silver dollars, spotted doras (2) 3 baryancistrus (for which the current is strong)
I havn't got any pictures because it didn't occur to me at the time but I will post when I do.
Breeding of microglanis.
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Breeding of microglanis.
One more bucket of water and the farce is complete.
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