I checked my greenhouse today and found a big dad busy bouncing around in a cave. I dumped the cave and found a messy but somewhat good mass of eggs. Who knows what happened before I found them, but I've moved the remaining eggs to a small container with an airstone and hoping for the best.
Since I believe this is their first spawn, my thoughts are that either dad ate some eggs, or mom laid many empty jelly coats, or the snails ate some eggs.
For background, these adults are wild-caught along the Rio Nanay in Peru by me and by other scientists at the Amazon Research Center for Ornamental Fishes (ARCOF). Here are pictures from their original collection:
- https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/vie ... 95#p330695
- https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/vie ... 56#p330756
- https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/vie ... 11#p334111
- The egg mass shown in the last link was collected with adults of the species I have, although we couldn't confirm the adults we saw were in fact the parents of this egg mass. The eggs in that post were later hatched at ARCOF last year, but I don't know what became of the fry in Peru.
- https://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/vie ... 37#p335337
- Of the 12 species I imported in November, I've now been lucky to have spawned four of the species
- (5 spawns)
- (3 spawns)
- (2 spawns, but no fry yet)
- (1st spawn today)
- Of the 12 species I imported in November, I've now been lucky to have spawned four of the species
Fingers crossed for more!
Cheers, Eric
