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bekateen wrote: ↑19 Jul 2020, 19:52 Success! ... but not.

First spawn of my Peckoltia lineola occurred between Friday night and Sunday morning. Dad has a few eggs in his cave, but they don't look good. The yolks are solid yellow color.

Also, the tank looks like it exploded with eggs outside his cave. He was actually kicking some out of his cave when I discovered him today, and there were a dozen or more eggs scattered nearby, many of them partially disintegrated, all of them with solid yellow colored yolks.

So specifically, this spawn was a failure. But bigger picture, I think it was a great success. The females have been trapping on and off for almost 4 months. The females were huge (still are big). I suspect their eggs were old and nonviable before being oviposited. But... now they have shown they can do it, so I hope they'll do it again, next time with good eggs.

Final note, while one dad sits on some bad eggs, another dad in the cave nearby is trapping a female.

Cheers, Eric

bekateen wrote: ↑19 Jul 2020, 21:42 Funny you should ask today of all days - sometimes true for other genera too, as in my case over Saturday with Peckoltia lineola: (viewtopic.php?p=325579#p325579)

Well let’s hope we both have better results going forward!

bekateen wrote: ↑19 Jul 2020, 19:52 Success! ... but not.

First spawn of my Peckoltia lineola occurred between Friday night and Sunday morning. Dad has a few eggs in his cave, but they don't look good. The yolks are solid yellow color.

Also, the tank looks like it exploded with eggs outside his cave. He was actually kicking some out of his cave when I discovered him today, and there were a dozen or more eggs scattered nearby, many of them partially disintegrated, all of them with solid yellow colored yolks.

So specifically, this spawn was a failure. But bigger picture, I think it was a great success. The females have been trapping on and off for almost 4 months. The females were huge (still are big). I suspect their eggs were old and nonviable before being oviposited. But... now they have shown they can do it, so I hope they'll do it again, next time with good eggs.

Final note, while one dad sits on some bad eggs, another dad in the cave nearby is trapping a female.

Cheers, Eric

Baardman wrote: ↑20 Jul 2020, 10:55 I think the hardest part is to get that first spawn,once that's done they will keep going. Hatching eggs and raising fry different ball game

Baardman wrote: ↑21 Jul 2020, 07:24 The struggle is real trying to stay away from a new species spawn so you don't bother the male to much