Severum Fry Feeding

[neutrino]

More than one suspect here imo. If it's their first time it wouldn't be such a surprise if they failed, it can take a few tries to get it right. And if it's a clown loach and he has any size to him, it wouldn't surprise me if it ate, or tried to eat, the eggs. They're not really a fish I like to keep with breeding cichlids.

Clown loaches ime aren't so much outwardly aggressive as they are pushy if they can get away with it, more so once they get some size to them. They remind me of the sort of big kid in 2nd or 3rd grade who isn't mean, exactly, but kind of bumbles around and pushes his weight around to get what he wants unless there's someone else to keep him in his place. You might see more of this if the loaches aren't in a group.

 

[FriendlyPear]

if it's a clown loach and he has any size to him, it wouldn't surprise me if it ate, or tried to eat, the eggs.

It looks like a yoyo-loach, maybe 6-7 cm long, but I guess the challenge is the same as with the clown. It is not a fish I picked myself, I took it over when a relative reinstalled a tank.

Previously both the rainbows and acaras had eggs hatching in the tank with the yoyo (and a bristlenose pleco), so I will see what practice brings.

 

[neutrino]

I'm not as familiar with yoyo loaches, haven't kept them myself, so I'm just going on reputation here, which is that they're diggers (they eat snails) and can be fin nippers. Would lead me to suspect strongly they'd eat eggs if they can get away with it. Not a huge leap of logic, there's not many fish that would resist free caviar or unprotected fry, but some are more determined than others.

I've heard of bn plecos eating eggs, including angelfish eggs. I've successfully bred sevs (and geos) with small to medium plecos, queen arabesque and green phantom, either of which would happy to eat unattended eggs, but they were kept away pretty easily by watchful parents. My guess, based on extrapolation, is it would be similar with bn plecos, sleeping or inattentive sev parents would lose eggs to them, vigilant parents should be able to fend them off...

All nice in theory... but if the reality is that anything with eggs in the tank loses them, and you want fry and don't get success after a few tries, probably time to change something.