DRD's L333 babies

drd · Post by **drd** » 19 Jan 2007, 20:52

Sorry but i need to steel this thread a little bit and post a pic on my newest L333 babies

I found them yesterday in a cave in my 720 litre tank.

And a possible breedingattempt tonight when a female entered the cave in witch the male guarded his jewels.

kev · Post by **kev** » 19 Jan 2007, 21:26

Congrat's drd there is load's in there

. dont worry about using this thread mate all's welcome. How many 333's do you have in there? any chance of some pic's of your whole tank?. My 333's have had 2 more batch's since i started this thread but have gone off breeding in the last month.

they like the cave's but they've stopped breeding

Kev

drd · Post by **drd** » 20 Jan 2007, 07:38

Here´s the left side of my 720 witch they swim in.

The caves for the L333´s is located in the left bottom,underneath the big altum to the left

Rantosa · Post by **Rantosa** » 20 Jan 2007, 08:46

can you show me a full tank shot of your breeding setup mate.. I am trying to breed mine aswell without any luck till now. What have you used to trigger them? My females are fat az but nothing has happened yet

drd · Post by **drd** » 20 Jan 2007, 12:42

I don´t do anything in particular to maken them breed easier i only change a lot of water every 4´th day so my wild discus and altum feel aight

The setup itself is easy, i only have some special made breedingcaves that i bought in Duisburg on the discusshow in october last year.

I have 2 caves and some skiffer stones laid together in a formation and nothing else.

The temp in my 720 tank is about 30 degrees celsius and ph about 5.5, microsiemens at 200.

I lower the ph with Oac bark extract before changing water in a special tank beside in my fishroom to 6 (it´s 8 in the tap)

That´s the whole secret in my breeding.
I also have a couple of sturisoma aureum in the tank and lot´s of cory sterbais that breed a lot in there to

kev · Post by **kev** » 20 Jan 2007, 19:57

nice tank drd, im gona spend a bit of time with mine over the next few week's to see what they like best to get them going. Ive started a bit of a breeding programme in my fish room, Ive got the L333's and i got 2 pair's of L260 a couple of week's ago, i have one L174 and im getting a few more from Pier Aquatic's soon. Ive had some L236 for over a year and 2 female L066 of which i got a big male for them last week. So all in all im going to be pretty busy in the coming months. Ive started a thread about it here http://www.pieraquatics.co.uk/ in the breeding section under "Kev's breeding programme". Please post your pic's on there, we need some more member's

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Kev

drd · Post by **drd** » 25 Jan 2007, 21:12

This is how they look tonight a week later after i found them.
They feed on frozen cyclops and brineshrimp and a special homemade mix.

kev · Post by **kev** » 29 Jan 2007, 11:01

very cute drd they are coming on well

. ive turned the heater up in the 333 breeding tank and have been power feeding the for over a week now, at the end of the week im going to turn down the heat and do a 50% water change with R.O. and see what that does.

Kev

drd · Post by **drd** » 29 Jan 2007, 16:35

Here´s a more recent pic of the littles and yes they are really cute now

I hope your´s become parents soon as well dude

drd · Post by **drd** » 29 Jan 2007, 16:37

And another one of one of the L333´s

drd · Post by **drd** » 01 Mar 2007, 11:27

Just posting a update on my L333 babies

They are about 20 mm long and all of them have survived but one.
They moved to a 70 litre tank now with a spongefilter driven by a powerhead 400l/h and they seems to grow slowly day by day.
They eat mostly brine shrimp and cyclops and some Dr.Basslers granule and some waffers.

I have 38 small L333´s now and another hatch is soon to come out of the cave because the male is guarding again.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 02 Mar 2007, 10:29

Nice tank, and congrats on the spawn and all that, but you really ought to get your own topic.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 02 Mar 2007, 11:28

As Jon Suggested, the topic has been split into two.

DRD: Congratulations!

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Mats

drd · Post by **drd** » 02 Mar 2007, 16:33

Unfortunatly this is what i found in the breedingtank after work today.
One female L333 dead and big as hell on the stomach so i had to cut here open and see but then i found this.
I have seen the big male who is father to the babies with here in the cave yesterday but now he´s in there with another female and this mom is dead.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 02 Mar 2007, 16:38

That's a great loss, I'd say... Sorry to hear that.

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Mats

wrasse · Post by **wrasse** » 04 Mar 2007, 07:03

DRD thats a shame about the loss of the female L333, but otherwise you have some very happy fish there. I can see why..... your tanks look superb and very clean. You keep catfish that are truly comfortable in a discus tank .
Hate to go off the subject of cats for a moment, but those altum angels look great. Are they showing any signs of pairing-up and breeding?

drd · Post by **drd** » 04 Mar 2007, 17:17

Thanx wrasse and yes the altums has done a couple of try´s to prepare for a spawn but never got of to it unfortunately.
And now back on the track with L333´s , i just checked in to the big male in his cave and found a yellow surprise in there !!

A whole lotta eggs is in there for him to guard for the next weeks before i´m going to collect the new babies !

drd · Post by **drd** » 26 Mar 2007, 10:00

Here´s a pic on the newest gang of L333´s !

At least 70 of them and hopefully they start eat right away

scarper · Post by **scarper** » 26 Mar 2007, 12:10

congratulations..they look great. What are you going to do with all of them ??

drd · Post by **drd** » 26 Mar 2007, 15:05

Hmm....what to do with them

Just sell them to one of swedens biggest fishstore supplier

And i have lot´s of friends that are going to buy some from me.
The question is just how much do i take for them when i sell them ?
Anyone have an idea how much i should take for them at 4 cm size ?
I figure that it takes 4 month to get them to between 4 and 5 cm in size and it should be safe to sell them then.
What do the planetcatfish people think ?

DRD's L333 babies

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