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Sorry but i need to steel this thread a little bit and post a pic on my newest L333 babies

I found them yesterday in a cave in my 720 litre tank.


And a possible breedingattempt tonight when a female entered the cave in witch the male guarded his jewels.

Congrat's drd there is load's in there . dont worry about using this thread mate all's welcome. How many 333's do you have in there? any chance of some pic's of your whole tank?. My 333's have had 2 more batch's since i started this thread but have gone off breeding in the last month.

they like the cave's but they've stopped breeding

Kev

Here´s the left side of my 720 witch they swim in.

The caves for the L333´s is located in the left bottom,underneath the big altum to the left

can you show me a full tank shot of your breeding setup mate.. I am trying to breed mine aswell without any luck till now. What have you used to trigger them? My females are fat az but nothing has happened yet

I don´t do anything in particular to maken them breed easier i only change a lot of water every 4´th day so my wild discus and altum feel aight

The setup itself is easy, i only have some special made breedingcaves that i bought in Duisburg on the discusshow in october last year.

I have 2 caves and some skiffer stones laid together in a formation and nothing else.

The temp in my 720 tank is about 30 degrees celsius and ph about 5.5, microsiemens at 200.

I lower the ph with Oac bark extract before changing water in a special tank beside in my fishroom to 6 (it´s 8 in the tap)

That´s the whole secret in my breeding.
I also have a couple of sturisoma aureum in the tank and lot´s of cory sterbais that breed a lot in there to

nice tank drd, im gona spend a bit of time with mine over the next few week's to see what they like best to get them going. Ive started a bit of a breeding programme in my fish room, Ive got the L333's and i got 2 pair's of L260 a couple of week's ago, i have one L174 and im getting a few more from Pier Aquatic's soon. Ive had some L236 for over a year and 2 female L066 of which i got a big male for them last week. So all in all im going to be pretty busy in the coming months. Ive started a thread about it here http://www.pieraquatics.co.uk/ in the breeding section under "Kev's breeding programme". Please post your pic's on there, we need some more member's .

Kev

This is how they look tonight a week later after i found them.
They feed on frozen cyclops and brineshrimp and a special homemade mix.

very cute drd they are coming on well . ive turned the heater up in the 333 breeding tank and have been power feeding the for over a week now, at the end of the week im going to turn down the heat and do a 50% water change with R.O. and see what that does.

Kev

Here´s a more recent pic of the littles and yes they are really cute now

I hope your´s become parents soon as well dude

And another one of one of the L333´s

Just posting a update on my L333 babies

They are about 20 mm long and all of them have survived but one.
They moved to a 70 litre tank now with a spongefilter driven by a powerhead 400l/h and they seems to grow slowly day by day.
They eat mostly brine shrimp and cyclops and some Dr.Basslers granule and some waffers.

I have 38 small L333´s now and another hatch is soon to come out of the cave because the male is guarding again.

Nice tank, and congrats on the spawn and all that, but you really ought to get your own topic.

As Jon Suggested, the topic has been split into two.

DRD: Congratulations!

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Mats

Unfortunatly this is what i found in the breedingtank after work today.
One female L333 dead and big as hell on the stomach so i had to cut here open and see but then i found this.
I have seen the big male who is father to the babies with here in the cave yesterday but now he´s in there with another female and this mom is dead.

That's a great loss, I'd say... Sorry to hear that.

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Mats

DRD thats a shame about the loss of the female L333, but otherwise you have some very happy fish there. I can see why..... your tanks look superb and very clean. You keep catfish that are truly comfortable in a discus tank .
Hate to go off the subject of cats for a moment, but those altum angels look great. Are they showing any signs of pairing-up and breeding?

Thanx wrasse and yes the altums has done a couple of try´s to prepare for a spawn but never got of to it unfortunately.
And now back on the track with L333´s , i just checked in to the big male in his cave and found a yellow surprise in there !!

A whole lotta eggs is in there for him to guard for the next weeks before i´m going to collect the new babies !

Here´s a pic on the newest gang of L333´s !

At least 70 of them and hopefully they start eat right away

congratulations..they look great. What are you going to do with all of them ??

Hmm....what to do with them

Just sell them to one of swedens biggest fishstore supplier
And i have lot´s of friends that are going to buy some from me.
The question is just how much do i take for them when i sell them ?
Anyone have an idea how much i should take for them at 4 cm size ?
I figure that it takes 4 month to get them to between 4 and 5 cm in size and it should be safe to sell them then.
What do the planetcatfish people think ?