Thanks, Just to keep you informed, I've counted all the eggs from pics and there were near on 800. I have two females (3males) but don't know if both where involved. All but around 20 where fertile and hatched between 48 - 72hrs @ 78F. Unfortunatly, quite a number have died off, which I'm putting ...

Well these fish spawned again on Monday morning, with the first few hatching this morning. This time there were far more eggs (>400), plus a much higher fertility rate (+95%). Here are a couple of pic's of how the eggs where depositied. these are all the eggs photographed soon after spawning had ...

Thanks I know that they are not true ornatus, but they aren't schwartzi either which have a round nose, clear dorsal spine (mine have opace white spines which might not be evendent from the pics), with black markings on the first couple of rays. That's the thing, I don't know exactly what they are ...

Just though I'd ask to see if anyone knew of someone who's bred C. ornatus, as I've got some fish which Ian has discribed as cf.ornatus which have spawned this morning in the community tank. The reason I ask is these fish have layed around 40 to 50 eggs at a time in a tight group, on the surface of ...

That L333 looks alot like some fish I saw at the weekend in BAS (Bolton). They had them labeled as L313 (I think) but they could have typed a 1 instead of a 3 in the middle of the tank label by mistake(?) (I can't find a pic of L313 to know what they should look like). Price was £45 each. I was t ...

Well I could be wrong, but I seem to remember Oliver Lucanus saying at last years CSG convention that they were not to hard to find, but the fish pictured in aqualog was a bit of a one off and once brought into aquarium conditions, look nothing like pictured, hence you would perhaps match up with ...