Personally i have had great success with woodcats. I currently keep 12+ species but only 4 are breeding. These include Tatia intermedia, Duringlanis perugiae, Duringlanis romani, and my favorite, Tatia strigata.
My T. intermedia females lay eggs every six weeks so with 5 females they are one of my largest producers. I only have 1 male and WC intermedia's are hard to come by so only about 1/3 batches are fertile. I have noticed that intermedia's have the greatest amount of eggs about 200 eggs/spawn. They are quite easy to raise with roughly 30 fry surviving per spawn. The D. perugiae are the easiest by far, the females lay eggs monthly roughly 50 of them and 90% of them hatch. To tell the truth I have never found a dead perugiae fry, every single one that has hatched is still alive. They are the easiest to raise and the easiest to get eggs from, just in the 2 weeks my group of 3 females and 1 male were in qt they spawned 2 times! The romani are tricky though not the eggs the fry. I get a spawn every 3 days from my romani group of 8! they lay ~30 eggs of which 10 hatch and 5 might survive thank goodness I have such a large group or I wouldn't have as many fry! The strigata are by far the hardest and the most beautiful! my group of 7 strigata lay eggs weekly. with laying ~40 eggs they have quite a small yield about the size 5 after die off. Honestly if anyone wants to know the secret to breeding woodcats it is having SOFT water and keeping up with the weekly water changes. Sadly I have no fish old enough to bring to CatCon, but I will have lots for the cataclysm 2023. Also I will make breeding reports here soon I just need better photos.
My other woodcat's for those wondering include:
T. gyrina
T. galaxias (true fish from locale)
T. aff. simplex
T. crypticia
D. altae
S. moijiri
T. musaica
A. batrachus.
Always looking out for more species and more fish to add to my current groups so contact me if you have anything cool.
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