I have four lovely t.exilis, I'm not actually sure of gender ratios as they typically zoom past me to hoover up dinner then go back in their hiding spots but here's one with a jelly belly after dinner.
Recently, at the start of June, I arranged my tank differently removing all the plants and adding a lot more wood. This obviously triggered something in them and I found 4 eggs! Only two hatched unfortunately, sorry about the bad quality photos but here is how one looked after hatching. They hatched at different times:
The egg sac was very large in comparison to the fry, and it did take several days for this to go down and they grew well during this stage. Here is a better photo of my 'twins':
And here is a video I took of them once they began to be more active, hiding from the light under a leaf:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMdiY7GC ... e=youtu.be
I took this last photo on the 16th of June, but they did not live much longer past this stage.
I was trying to use microworms as a food as this had worked with corydoras but it was either not readily taken or something else was wrong with the setup. I have very hard water here in Kent, the first spawn was in Northern soft water and I have since moved. However, yesterday, I found 9 more eggs! I will hopefully update as they grow, some may not be fertile or disintegrate like last time. Adults seem to abandon eggs, but lay them under wood - I had to remove the wood to hoover trapped detrius where I noticed an egg and kept hunting until I found the 9.
the last 3 hatched in the night, so now I have 9!
