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Yesterday I found the first eggs from my Ancistrus sp. L255 group

Congrats

Spectacular!

Congratulations Jac! Keep up the good work!

Take care,
Chuck

Time to update that Breeding Report section on the species page! Very nice job Jac!

Regards
Karl

cavefish wrote: ↑21 Oct 2019, 16:27 Time to update that Breeding Report section on the species page! Very nice job Jac!

Regards
Karl

Indeed, I'll add something to the database too.


Jools

That's wonderful!

For me that causes the best feeling in keeping fish (or any other pet) when they reward all the work we do to keep them how they like it by giving us babies. Even if raising babies can cause headaches.

Congrats!!!

Thanks all! The male kicked the eggs out after 24 hours. Sadly I lost all the eggs due to fungus. By a miracle one premature hatched larvae actually survived and is doing very well at the moment I'm not risking anything with this fry so no pictures at this moment but I will try something later this week as the yolk sack is almost gone

The single fry is doing great!

I took the first pictures today

12 Day's old.

We may need to name it.

I vote for Han Solo.

Jools

The fry didn't like the stress of taking pictures and I started to think I had lost it... It wasn't eating and kept going up to the surface, pinching it's fins. Then I had a spawn of Sturisoma and added all the fry I could find to the same fryring as the L255 juvenile. It helped tremendously and the L255 juvenile started to feed and hide like it should.



And today, at almost 4 weeks old, it's doing great! Showing nice white spots



And even better news is that the adults have spawned again So I get another chance at raising a few more youngsters if all goes well.

Great move with the Sturisoma fry and really interesting to see that tactic worked.

Jools

Jools wrote: ↑20 Nov 2019, 08:53 Great move with the Sturisoma fry and really interesting to see that tactic worked.

Jools

It was a first for me too. I needed to let the single fry feel safe and I know from raising Sturisoma fry that they learn to feed from other siblings. So it was just worth a shot and it worked

The eggs at three days old.

Hatching day for the L255 eggs this morning

Note that the fry already show some colour even prior to hatching. Something I have noticed while breeding ranunculus type species.

Better luck this tim, Jac. Keep up the great success!

Cheers, Eric

Some video of the eggs and fry

Fresh hatchling and a picture of 1 day old

Fry at two days old.

The oldest F1 juvenile doing well at about 6 weeks old.

Glad it's doing well. Keep going!

Cheers, Eric

Fry are growing very well and almost dissolved their yolk sacks. Feeding will start soon



And some more pictures of day 3,4,5, and 6.

The older juvenile feeding on Repashy

awesome! are you using blackwater and how often and how much do you change your water? cheers!

RexTGP wrote: ↑01 Dec 2019, 13:44 awesome! are you using blackwater and how often and how much do you change your water? cheers!

I use normal tapwater (Ph 7 Kh 3 conductivity around 300 microsiemens), no rain or osmoses water.
Due to my job I try to do as many water changes as I can. I try every 5-7 days and then change about 75%.

I see, thanks! May I know what do you feed them and where did you get the cave from?

They look wonderful!