I haven't updated the topic for a while... There's little news... Everything is going quite well, the reproductions follow one another periodically. This female, on the other hand, I like more and more, even if she is not a prized "super yellow", but a normal "basic", I really like her pattern ...

After the disaster, finally some happy news: a few days ago a little L236 appeared. It is not the result of a new mating, but is a survivor of the last spawn, when I had instead given everyone up for dead. I had counted over 20 little ones, there were probably more, and it was terrible to see them ...

Everything was going wonderfully, the new little ones that I had posted above in the video were really numerous, they came out of every nook and cranny, once I managed to count 20 of them all together, so there were probably even more. All the other guests were bursting with health, in short ...

To give the tank some liveliness, I recently bought a group of Melanotenia preacox and two M. boisemanni. Coexistence with Hypancistrus seems to work, but they are not at all intimidated by the liveliness of rainbowfish

Update These days the latest births are starting to show up often, they are really tiny compared to previous births. In the video you can initially see the comparison with one born from the spawning at the end of September, then later in the video there are larger specimens, born even earlier. For ...

Two males

Overview

catfishmelao, I'm very pleased that things are going well. I had no doubt that it would also work for babies in the tub with adults.

This 13 cm (5 inch) male feeding on his favorite food, shelled and blanched peas

Speaking of this latest spawning, I wanted to talk about how important it is to always have some escort males ready to mate, replacing the alpha male. I have a very large female, until now the only one big and strong enough to mate with her was the 13 cm (5 inch) alpha male. Now it happened that as ...

Congratulations! As far as your bad news that some are loose in the tank, my experience with Hypancistrus is that the parents will leave the babies alone. Good luck with them! Cheers, Eric I agree. I don't see any problem in leaving the babies with the parents, I'm experimenting with it myself with ...

Well, as I haven't said, I just saw a male trap a female and release her when the spawining was finished. Let's see if she will be able to take care of the egg cluster

Ah, another thing: in this period there was a lot of rain, which is known to stimulate reproduction, so I preferred to lower the temperature to 25 C° (77°F) to avoid further spawining. My tank is very full of small L236s, it's better if they don't reproduce for a period, so I can manage everything b ...

Alpha male

The 6 babies all seem to be doing well. Yesterday I returned home after six days of absence, after feeding, I began to observe the tank for a long time and I saw all six of them. Then two of them started arguing a bit

The babies seem to do well in the main tank. I get to see them regularly, so it's going well

How long does it take to get the yellow color I wonder? I'm really digging the look of the adults. Nice work! The yellow increases in intensity as they grow, so the moment when the yellow becomes stronger and brighter than ever comes when the fish reaches adulthood. When they are small, however ...

White and yellow

Even though I've been breeding this species for a while, I'm not very good at distinguishing males from females. But we're all here to learn, so I try to bet my two cents, in case someone more knowledgeable than me, corrects me. I see many females and few males, in the first photo I am 100% sure of ...

WOW! You really have a super group, all the specimens are very beautiful

DueTankAmin , Fantastic intervention, thank you very much! Sorry I am late to this thread. I would have looked to have a 2-1 m-f ratio. My understsanding that it takes a female about 2 weeks to produce eggs while the male will need about a month from spawning to the time her boots free swimming fry ...

this is definitely a good thing, it reduces the risk I described in previous messages a bit. Keep us updated on how your L236 group progresses.

This morning, when the lights were still off, I noticed that there was a fry on the glass (see photo). I looked in the floating plastic tank and saw that there was only one little one left, so 5 had escaped during the night, jumping into the main tank. Obviously I released the last fry left in the ...

catfishmelao, You have chosen some truly beautiful specimens, my compliments!

It's not clear from the photo, but are all your males bigger than the females?

Ruud109, thank you for your compliments
I sent you a private message about the fish store.

Today finally all the fry have absorbed the yolk sac and I'm starting to feed.
I managed to take some photos of the ones born in the main tank, they should be around three months old.

catfishmelao , Maybe I'm a little late, because I see you've already purchased the fish... I have recently started with L236 and I am having the first reproductions in this period (you can find my topic below), so take what I tell you only as an opinion. I prefer to have a ratio of 5 males to 3 ...

The fry have yet to finish absorbing the yolk sac, but it wasn't a lucky hatch, last night another one died and currently only 6 are left alive. DSC_1036.JPG DSC_1027.JPG The offspring born directly in the tank a few months ago are doing better, they are all growing well, they are quite active and ...

Shane wrote: ↑28 Sep 2023, 18:47 Chewy is 100% back to normal. The cloudy eyes (which had me worried) are all cleared up.

She is back to her normal belligerence.. attacking food before I can even let go of it.
-Shane

It's great to read this news