L168/L052 now Dekeyseria Picta fry

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L168/L052 now Dekeyseria Picta fry

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After many many failed spawns and clutches being eaten, I have finally (after almost 2 years) been able to raise some fry - all my males seem to be useless at hatching eggs and raising the fry themselves.

Fry are about 3 weeks old.

Photos are attached - sorry for average quality.
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Congratulations, Jessie. It'll get easier from here.

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Wow, congrats!!!
It's fantastic
I have 4 L168, one male and 3 juvenil, i dream a spawn.
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Great work. Congratulations
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What are your water parameters?
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Baardman wrote: 31 Mar 2019, 23:20 What are your water parameters?
I've never tested my parameters but I keep them at 25 +- 0.3 degrees celsius. Planning on raising the tank to about 27 degrees in the coming months.
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thanks I'm running mine at 26 degrees celsius
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one more question How big are your caves?
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Baardman wrote: 12 Apr 2019, 17:53 one more question How big are your caves?
All good mate - ask away.

I have a bunch of caves in the tank with which they've spawned in, plus I've had a male spawn underneath a rock between two caves a couple times. The caves I have are LxWxH:
- Triangle 18cm x 5cm x 5cm
- Rectangle 15cm x 4cm x 3cm
- D 15cm x 4cm x 3cm
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oh i suspect my caves might be on the short side ill have to build some new ones thanks for the answer
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UPDATE: Fry died from unknown causes and I have since moved house and tank two months ago and divided into two sections housing 2m2f and 3m2f. I have just come home to a fresh spawn with female to potentially lay more eggs.

This is the section of the lastest spawning.
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Spawning happening underneath the rock.
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