Hurray! Hurray! Some Of My Fish Might Be Breeding!

[Captain Retardo]

I have noticed a few changes in my Aquarium, and it might mean my fish are breeding!

1) My Male Cherry Barb is turning a deeper red, and is getting more aggresive with other fish, and staying near my female more.

2) My cories are swimming up and down the walls more

3) My Kuhli Loaches are getting way more active, and spending more time near eachother.


I have, though, made a couple of changes to the aquarium withing the last week or 2:

1) I took out my airline, it was making too much disturbance, which I believe is the reason why my cories are swimming up and down the tank more (They can take a breath easier without the hardswimming)

2) I just bought some Frozen Bloodworms and have been feeding it to the fish 1-3 times a week. My fish did try some live African Dwarf Frog yesterday luckily though, the already healthy ones survived and are in a breeding net, away from the fish.

3) I bought a lot of plastic plants and now I have a superb hiding place for fish who love to hide in plants.

I have noticed one thing also:

The big leaves of my plastic plants have little green, what looks like eggs on them (sorry can't get a picture, my camera really sucks) scattered all over about 5 leaves in total. They haven't moved at all so Im pretty sure that they are eggs, but I noticed them a week ago and they haven't hatched yet (if they are eggs that is)

 

[diburning]

little green spots should be cory eggs

 

[Captain Retardo]

Really? They haven't hatched in a while though...

I was going to setup a 10 gallon specifically for breeding my cories anyway, but this is a welcome suprise!


Nothing has eaten the eggs yet, there are only about 20-40 of them in total (maybe a little high estimate).

Actually what I'm going to do is try to take off one of the eggs and put it on my finger then take a picture of it. (my camera only sucks when taking a picture of stuff through water) (I'll do it tommorow though, its starting to get late)

 

[Lynden]

little green spots should be cory eggs

I thought Loaches' eggs were green.

My fish breed all the time, and one time my Blood Parrot laid eggs all by herself. I put my hand in the tank and she tried to bite it, but the poor things mutant jaws just couldn't. So, I pretended it hurt, and she seemed very satisfied. Yippee!

Wait a few more days for the eggs to hatch, or move the leaves to a different tank. I never bothered to try to raise my fry... mostly because the eggs would get eaten as soon as they were laid.

-Lynden

 

[Captain Retardo]

Oh yes, I actually do remember reading that loaches eggs are green. And aren't cory eggs white?

Either way, if it is loach eggs, that means that I somehow bred My Kuhli loaches (hopefully) (isn't it very hard to breed loaches anyway?)

How long will it take do you suppose for them to hatch. I will probably get a 1 gallon kritter keeper soon (for some triops) although I can hold on the triops, but I really doubt 1 gallon is gonna be anywhere near adequeate. I do have an empty 10 gallon though, but no equipment for it though...

 

[Lynden]

Either way, if it is loach eggs, that means that I somehow bred My Kuhli loaches (hopefully) (isn't it very hard to breed loaches anyway?)

Your tank must be awesome then!

How long will it take do you suppose for them to hatch. I will probably get a 1 gallon kritter keeper soon (for some triops) although I can hold on the triops, but I really doubt 1 gallon is gonna be anywhere near adequeate. I do have an empty 10 gallon though, but no equipment for it though...

You might just have to leave them. You will have another chance if they did breed, because if they do it once they will do it again.

-Lynden

 

[Captain Retardo]

(scroll down to the breeding section of the webpages)

http/www.loaches.com/species_pages/kloach.html

http/aqualandpetsplus.com/Oddball,%20Kuhli%20Loaches.htm

http/badmanstropicalfish.com/profiles/profile28.html


http/www.aquariumfish.com/aquariumfish/d...=21840&cid=4150
Very interesting article, seems like my tank is halfway to being a perfect spawning tank

I feed my Kuhlis Shrimp Pellets and Frozen bloodworm, my tank has a pH of 7.6 (apparently just a little high), my tank gets inderect sunlight, and i give it 8 hours of light a day. I have a small accumulation of mulm on the bottom, but when I do water changes my Nitrate level is 0 ppm. My kuhlis have about 5 different hiding places, they are very active during day. And it looks like some of them are fatter than the others, but not really bulging per say.

I don't have any water sprite though, or java moss. And it said eggs usually hatch within days.



hmmm. seems like it may actually be Kuhli eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!! but, sadly, they probably won't hatch and i don't have a place to put them (well I do have a net breeder, but i don't know if the baby Kuhlis get through the tiny netting.