Another lot of eggs... Centromochlus romani

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 21 May 2010, 23:10

eggs:

I'm not sure exactly how old they are, but the tail has just started showing...

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Mats

Suckermouth · Post by **Suckermouth** » 21 May 2010, 23:16

Woah, are those little mucus bubbles around each fish?

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 21 May 2010, 23:23

Suckermouth wrote:Woah, are those little mucus bubbles around each fish?

Not so little either. I'd estimate 4-5 mm diameter "bubbles". The "fry" (egg with tail) is about 1.5-2mm diameter.

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Mats

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 22 May 2010, 05:06

wow.. really nice. good pictures. I have never ever even heard of that fish before.

Richard B · Post by **Richard B** » 22 May 2010, 08:45

Mats - you should enter a report on the CSG BAP.

grokefish · Post by **grokefish** » 22 May 2010, 09:05

Cool must be breeding season in the Amazon eh.

wrasse · Post by **wrasse** » 22 May 2010, 15:24

Well done Mats.
Maybe transfer some of that water to your other tanks...

Carp37 · Post by **Carp37** » 22 May 2010, 18:33

Congratulations Mats

How did last year's fry do?

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 22 May 2010, 18:45

I've got several fry from last years batch that are approaching "full size". I'll probably put a few up on Auction tomorrow [Martin, don't worry, only two or three, so I'll still have several left].

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Mats

cawnov · Post by **cawnov** » 27 May 2010, 05:24

Wow those eggs have a huge perivitelline space. You should post some pics of different development phases as they grow

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 27 May 2010, 10:12

I have one more set of pictures two days later, and I planned to take some more yesterday, but they were "freeswimming", so not easy to catch - essentially, they are 5mm copies of adults now, and they do move quite a bit during the day. Unfortunately, it looks like I only have something like two fry. There were many more viable eggs - not sure if the fry has "escaped" or perished.

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Mats

davidkozak · Post by **davidkozak** » 27 May 2010, 19:46

cool spawn...congratulations!
David

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 28 May 2010, 12:22

I thought (and posted) that there was only two left. Yesterday, with lights out, I had at least half a dozen little fish doing what the adults do at night. So that's good news. Hopefully a diet of tiny bits of tubifex (from the main tank) and Liquifry Liquid food is suitable to grow them on - it should be better than the food they got when they were breeding in the 4ft tank and I didn't do anything to make them grow!

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Mats

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