do the regular petros breed the same as the dwarfs? (with the flower pot and marbles?)
I have been looking for some WC dwarfs but found someone selling regs. I want to get them for breeding
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mine aren't budging yet.
they spawn and spawn and spawn all the time in the showtank; but once in another tank with marbles and all, nada, zip nothing.
btw I've got the petricola from Nyanza Lac.
and I DO have some offspring; luckily some eegs or fry got sucked up in the biofilter; so I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I cleared that out.
and no, those're not dwarfs because that species isn't present in my tanks.....
they spawn and spawn and spawn all the time in the showtank; but once in another tank with marbles and all, nada, zip nothing.
btw I've got the petricola from Nyanza Lac.
and I DO have some offspring; luckily some eegs or fry got sucked up in the biofilter; so I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I cleared that out.
and no, those're not dwarfs because that species isn't present in my tanks.....
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Sid's is the only spawning report that I've ever heard of for the regulars. I too have some regular synos that I had for years, fed heavily, and was all disappointed when they just never spawned. The dwarves do constantly. I have 2 female wilds that have looked like weebles the entire time I've owned them. They teeter on their bellies, literally, but no eggs in a marble trap from them ever.
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maybe you should try some tricks:
raise the temperature to say, 26'C or so for a few weeks
feed chopped-up shrimp (with the peel!), mysis, gammarus, chopped-up earthworms and black mosquitolarvae (or at least 1 of these) next to their normal diet.
add water with a showerhead attached to the hose; make sure that the water is at least 2'C colder than the tankwater (in other words: make it rain!). I sometimes dump in water of 21-22'C; when it comes in as "rain", there's no problem (you wouldn't want to add this with a bucket! your fish will get sick)
make sure you have some way of collecting the eggs before the other fish get them.
good luck!
raise the temperature to say, 26'C or so for a few weeks
feed chopped-up shrimp (with the peel!), mysis, gammarus, chopped-up earthworms and black mosquitolarvae (or at least 1 of these) next to their normal diet.
add water with a showerhead attached to the hose; make sure that the water is at least 2'C colder than the tankwater (in other words: make it rain!). I sometimes dump in water of 21-22'C; when it comes in as "rain", there's no problem (you wouldn't want to add this with a bucket! your fish will get sick)
make sure you have some way of collecting the eggs before the other fish get them.
good luck!
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