Breeding Tatia galaxias

Paradox · Post by **Paradox** » 29 Nov 2004, 23:48

Hi!
Does anyone here have any experience with Tatia galaxias?
Or maybe has bred them? Mine are laying eggs all the time.

They seem to like a big Anubias plant I recently planted in the tank. The female lays a big cluster of eggs inside it, looks almost like frogeggs. I saved some of them to a small tank and has hatched around 10-20 of them. They seem to prefer flakefood. Tried with artemia but they didnt really "go crazy" for it as the grown ones do with everything you put in the tank. Has anyone any good idea on any other food for them? They are about 5-10mm.

/Thomas

Post by **medaka** » 30 Nov 2004, 00:14

hi paradox

well done..

have you tried grindal worm as a supplemental diet
and live cyclops and sifted daphnia.
and.....
any chance of you posting some photo's

Paradox · Post by **Paradox** » 30 Nov 2004, 23:08

Hi again!
Well, tried to feed them frozen cyclops and they loved it!
Will try to get the little buggers on picture, but they are just as fast moving as their parents...

I have only taken one almost watchable picture of the eggs so far you will find them in this gallery:
http://www.zoonen.com/perzoonen/galleri ... gid=182217
The parents live in the 700l tank i the pictures. I know they are not the best but the camera is new and IÂ´m a little to impatient...

/Thomas

TalenT · Post by **TalenT** » 01 Dec 2004, 20:16

Hi Paradox.

a little "off topic" question... i saw in your photo album at zoonen that you are keeping a couple of 30cm Panaques in that tank. You have also got an internal background made of "Back to Nature" modules. I've heard that Panaques will chew away the top layer, i.e. the paint, from back to nature backgrounds. Any experience of this?

btw. Hej, alltid kul att se en annan "svenne" pÃ¥ detta forum. (in swedish

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Paradox · Post by **Paradox** » 02 Dec 2004, 00:27

Hi,
The Panaque are indeed fond of BacktoNature modules and all other things they can chew pieces of. We had one in our store that changed the colour of an entire BtN background in a couple of weeks. So at night you sometime hear them gnawing on it. But it seems as long they have roots(lots of it) they will leave other things alone. And they change the looks of the roots really fast. And the amount of "sawdust" is really big but it is all OK, they really are the "Royal" pleco.

/Thomas

(Hoppas att det svarade pÃ¥ en del frÃ¥gor...)

Waldo · Post by **Waldo** » 02 Dec 2004, 07:30

whats your water params at? i can import them and would love to be able to sell them in spawning colonies. how many do you have... give any info on breeding them as possible plz

Paradox · Post by **Paradox** » 02 Dec 2004, 22:23

I donÂ´t have that exact tests but they seem to breed in almost everything.
the first time was when I had missed my weekly waterchange for two weeks

. When I was changing water and shaked a big anubias a big cluster of eggs fell out and I managed to save some of them before the rest of the fish ate them.
The water parameters after that was: pH 6,5-7, No2 0, No3 10-15, GH 3-5, KH 1-3 26degrees C.
Since then they have spawned a couple of more times; a couple of days after waterchange and just before waterchange...

Hope that this will help some of you to try. The small ones are really fun to feed. They really get feeding frenzie.

Anyone else had any luck with them? I mean I cant be the only one. Or are they that uncommon?

/Thomas

fishfarmer · Post by **fishfarmer** » 03 Dec 2004, 01:26

I got some from Waldo a couple of monthgs ago and have them in harder water, pH 7.6 hardness 180 ppm hardness. I have only seen a few eggs in a breeding mop, but I do see a few fry scurrying around hiding among the caves and rocks. They came to me at maybe 2 inches in length, but have grown to over 3 inches very rapidly and the females are huge after feeding with brine shrimp or bloodworms. I did loose quite a few fry doing a water change not realizing they were there. I'm also waiting on some Tatia sp Tijer from Waldo to see if I can breed those too.

Steve

Waldo · Post by **Waldo** » 03 Dec 2004, 06:54

Hey steve. didn't realize it was you until i read the last part. I'm SOOOOO sorry about these delays. i don't know if i sent you the e-mail but 14th is the arrival date. i've had those tijer in lima now for a few weeks so they better be getting huge now. I'm going to send you some extras for you patience and hope of forgiveness.