Up the eyebrows in baby African catfishes.....
Posted: 20 Dec 2004, 19:50
just to let you people know that all is still going very well in the catfish-bredery:
just made my "round", with flashlight and all (felt a bit like an old cop)
so far:
2 Synodontis petricola Burundi youngsters growing slowly, doing fine.
about 10 or so Phyllonemus typus babies growing fast; about 2-3 cm now; I recently sold the first batch, those were about 4-5 cm!
My new Lophiobagrus brevispinis pair (pair #2 to get a bigger genepool) had a bunch; these -about 11- are eating and doing fine, tiny black critters.
A leftover nest of Ancistrus domesticus of about 15 now swimming free and grazing (not African, but the parents bred in my Treopheus-breeding tank)
Lophiobagrus brevispinis pair #1 (the ones in the CotM) have a new batch! white wrigglers glued to the back of the ol' PVC-pipe....both parents dutifully block the entrance.
Lophiobagrus pair #2's female decided this time she's off; the male's suck with a new batch of eggs; she's on holiday romping the tank
emancipation you know 
Phyllonemus typus pair doesn't do emancipation. They DO have their mouths full with batch number...euh....lost count
Synodontis petricola Burundi are spawning again in my showtank; hopefully again near the biofilter; wouldn't mind more babies.
Synodontis polli are all REALLY fat and REALLY active......
greetz from catfish-Valhalla
Sid
just made my "round", with flashlight and all (felt a bit like an old cop)
so far:
2 Synodontis petricola Burundi youngsters growing slowly, doing fine.
about 10 or so Phyllonemus typus babies growing fast; about 2-3 cm now; I recently sold the first batch, those were about 4-5 cm!
My new Lophiobagrus brevispinis pair (pair #2 to get a bigger genepool) had a bunch; these -about 11- are eating and doing fine, tiny black critters.
A leftover nest of Ancistrus domesticus of about 15 now swimming free and grazing (not African, but the parents bred in my Treopheus-breeding tank)
Lophiobagrus brevispinis pair #1 (the ones in the CotM) have a new batch! white wrigglers glued to the back of the ol' PVC-pipe....both parents dutifully block the entrance.
Lophiobagrus pair #2's female decided this time she's off; the male's suck with a new batch of eggs; she's on holiday romping the tank
emancipation you know Phyllonemus typus pair doesn't do emancipation. They DO have their mouths full with batch number...euh....lost count
Synodontis petricola Burundi are spawning again in my showtank; hopefully again near the biofilter; wouldn't mind more babies.
Synodontis polli are all REALLY fat and REALLY active......
greetz from catfish-Valhalla
Sid
I wish you continued success in 2005.