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ems? Aqualog Picture | | Water conditions: Moderately soft and acidic | Water temperature: 24-27oC | | Disposition: Slightly timid | Community tank?: Doubtful, only with VERY calm fish | | Spawning Method: Long term (fry appear with adults) | Breeding problems:
Poor egg survival | | Sex ratio: Roughly equal | Breeding difficulty: Average | | Sucess: Fairly sucessful | Years Experience: 3 | | Other Comments: Likes to hide under spawning moss in the tank. Layer of coarse gravel with a lot of spawning moss in the tank. Feed with blood worms to get into breeding condition. 2 males and 4 females in the breeding tank. Eggs laid in the spawning moss as well as the gravel. Hatching time appears to range from 1 to 2 months. Sometimes getting a good hatch of fry in the buckets of water kept after cleaning the tank and gravel.
Fry have been left in the tank with parents until about 1.5cm. This was more about giving more space for more fry to hatch than danger from adults. Over 100 fry hatched over 5 month period and still going. Lots of floating plants to cut down light intensity. | | Date this record created: 4th May 2005 | Breeding date: 31st December 2004 | | Breeder: Stephen | Location: Sydney Australia |
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Aquarium strain | | 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: Peat (or similar) spawning substrate | Breeding problems:
Poor egg production | | Sex ratio: Somewhat male heavy | Breeding difficulty: Difficult | | Sucess: Average | Years Experience: 1 | | Other Comments: | | Date this record created: 22nd November 2003 | Breeding date: 22nd November 2003 | | Breeder: brian sell | Location: cornwall |
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*Nomenclature correct according to KILLIDATA
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