keep yer fingers crossed ye-all
BUT I spotted one of my bigger male Phyllo's being cosey yesterday.
upon a closer look, he has a "huge chin", a female as company, and the eggs are clearly visible through the skin
(big yellow spheres)
today, they're both still in the burrow, mouths full of eggs...
I'm happy!
droopy
btw Happy New Year to ALL
haven't been much around due to MAJOR PC trouble (yes, AGAIN....) and am using Pectorale's PC at the moment.....
Plan B should not automatically be twice as much explosives as Plan A
BTW: How closely does your tank parameters match the Japanese article you recieved? Be interesting to note how fussy these fish are regarding chemistries.
tanksize; length x width x highth: 1 meter x 35 cm x 30 cm
substrate: riversand, some holy rock, burrowing snails (Melanoides tuberculata), some Ramshornsnails (Planorbis spp)
lights: 1 18watt fluorescence light, color; warm white. from 9.00 AM to 22.30 PM
waterparameters:
T = 24-25'C
pH about 8
KH about 6-8
Gh = 11
nitrates not measurable, nitrites 0
filtration Eheim 440; about 400 liters per hour.
waterchanges; every one to two weeks 1/3.
I add a wee bit of seasalt, NaH(CO3)2 (baking soda?), Ca(CO3)2 (limedust) and some drops of Aquasafe (tonic) to imitate Tanganyikan waterparameters with every waterchange.
These add-ons are minute! (tiny teaspoons per 30 liters freshwater!). Sometimes I add fresh bacteria-culture to keep the filter top notch.
floating plants on top (Lemna minor; Duckweed and Ceratophyllum; Hornworth), some in the ground (Hydrilla verticillata)
Caves: the same as in the Japanese article, terracotta tunnels made by sawing long narrow terracotta pots in half; the cats dig them out, and create a heap in the entrance. There are about 8-9 caves.
fish:
2 adult Ancistrus temmincki (breeding pair, spawn on a regular base)
6 Phyllonemus typus; 3 pairs.
Food:
spirulina flake and -tabs; regular tropical mixed flake and -tabs, several freeze foods:
gammarus, daphnia, cyclops, white-, black-, and red mosquitolarvae (bloodworms), peas and spinache for the temmincki's.
The Phyllo's eat any wandering Ancistrus-fry as well as all the guppies that were put in there as dithers....(adult guppies!)
the last time I checked it was the female that had the eggs, so they switch them (if I don't watch of course)
That's about it!
Plan B should not automatically be twice as much explosives as Plan A
Pturley, pix will be some doing!
as you probably know, those cats hide back in their cave. A cam will perfectly zoom in on the cave but stubbornly refuse to get what's IN there on the pic (been there, done that)
and my PC is still down, so unloading the camera will be a trial in itself.
I'll try though!
the Japanese article I referred to, is discussed in an earlier post about Phyllonemus.
Someone scanned it for me and send me the pix. Unfortunately it isn't available on line.
Plan B should not automatically be twice as much explosives as Plan A
