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Re: Red lizard eggs
Posted: 03 Apr 2012, 23:19
by apistomaster
I believe my males or the other adult L10a do sometimes eat the young.
This is unusual for a Loricaridid but so is much of everything else about these fish.
Most whiptail or Sturisoma types have a short period of vulnerability just after they hatch but before they have finished using up their approximately two days worth of energy derived from their residual egg yolks. They are quite helpless for about a 48 hours period.
Re: Red lizard eggs
Posted: 03 Apr 2012, 23:39
by Xod
I removed the male and resorted to artificial hatching. I hope i can at least see some frys
Re: Red lizard eggs
Posted: 04 Apr 2012, 10:43
by tomr
My male is still guarding. should hatch soon.
Re: Red lizard eggs
Posted: 04 Apr 2012, 16:33
by Xod
nice, I think I have dead wigglers. Basically I see a body outside of the egg but no movement.. I assume the egg then becomes a yolk sac.
Kinda like a sperm cell.. has a tail, head, and eyes.
Re: Red lizard eggs
Posted: 08 Apr 2012, 17:38
by tomr
the eggs are now hatching. About 11 days at 77F.
Re: Red lizard eggs
Posted: 04 May 2012, 05:17
by donpetty
Hi I wanted to update you that my L10a's spawned again, this time I removed the tube and eggs into one of those new Marina HOB breeding boxes, so that they could enjoy the tank water at the temperature of the adults.
This seems to have worked much better as the two previews times as I may have said resulted in someone, likely the females munching out on the eggs. I did not use any meth blue, but I did add an air stone in one end of the clay tube to make sure a current was moving across the eggs. All of the eggs hatched on Tuesday and the fry seem to be doing well;
I count at least 11 of them, I am not sure what a normal clutch size is and as they were laid inside of the tube I had no way to count them. I did see one that looked like it still had a sac, but the rest seem to be looking for food. I moved them into a tub that I house new Cory fry in, in hopes that the Cory fry will keep them moving about, the tub contains Kapata leaf, aged sponges, I am feeding micro worms, baby brine and fry powder. One note per my previous post, I did add a heater back to the adult tank and that seemed to brighten them up, so maybe I was keeping them too cool. Here is a shot of one of the young. Thanks for all of the great advice in this post! It obviously worked.
Don