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Song Ndong | | Water conditions: Moderately soft and acidic | Water temperature: 20-23oC | | Disposition: Active, but not aggresive | Community tank?: Only with species of similar size | | Spawning Method: Adult fish removed from tank | Breeding problems:
Poor egg survival | | Sex ratio: Almost all females | Breeding difficulty: Easy | | Sucess: Fairly sucessful | Years Experience: | | Other Comments: Loads of eggs are produced, but several are contaminated with funghi probably due to my lazy method of just removing the adult fish from the hatch tank. First young apear after 12 days. In 4 batches I got about 40 females to grow adult and just 1 male. See that other aquarists have it completely the other way round.
The male had a completely different colour scheme than the father.
Also the male was found in the big tank were all the adults live and was not hatched in the small tanks. So there must be a secret ingredient that balances the sex ratio. I keep on experimenting with temperature but don't know what it is yet. | | Date this record created: 27th July 2003 | Breeding date: | | Breeder: Rob Luiken | Location: Wageningen (NL) |
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Lagos | | Water conditions: Moderately soft and acidic | Water temperature: 20-23oC | | Disposition: Active, but not aggresive | Community tank?: Only with species of similar size | | Spawning Method: Long term (fry appear with adults) | Breeding problems: none | | Sex ratio: Somewhat male heavy | Breeding difficulty: Easy | | Sucess: Fairly sucessful | Years Experience: | | Other Comments: Fed on flake with occasional live food. Best kept in a group in larger tanks with floating plant cover. | | Date this record created: 9th July 2003 | Breeding date: | | Breeder: David Baker | Location: Maidenhead, UK |
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Aquarium strain | | Water conditions: Neutral | Water temperature: 20-23oC | | Disposition: Active, but not aggresive | Community tank?: Only with species of similar size | | Spawning Method: Spawning Mops | Breeding problems: none | | Sex ratio: Roughly equal | Breeding difficulty: Average | | Sucess: Fairly sucessful | Years Experience: | | Other Comments: i have been out of fishkeeping for 7 years, as i moved to england from glasgow. i had very good results and hatched many fry with minimal losses usualy down to eggs funguising i am again a member and again hoping i will be able to keep them again | | Date this record created: 23rd January 2003 | Breeding date: | | Breeder: william moore | Location: spalding/peterborough |
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Aquarium strain | | Water conditions: Neutral | Water temperature: 20-23oC | | Disposition: Active, but not aggresive | Community tank?: Only with species of similar size | | Spawning Method: Spawning Mops | Breeding problems: none | | Sex ratio: Roughly equal | Breeding difficulty: Average | | Sucess: Fairly sucessful | Years Experience: | | Other Comments: i have been out of fishkeeping for 7 years, as i moved to england from glasgow. i had very good results and hatched many fry with minimal losses usualy down to eggs funguising i am again a member and again hoping i will be able to keep them again | | Date this record created: 23rd January 2003 | Breeding date: | | Breeder: william moore | Location: spalding/peterborough |
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*Nomenclature correct according to KILLIDATA
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