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[Blue Ice]

Species: Albino Oscars

How many: a pair

How long trying: a month

Any successful spawns already: none

Set up: 30 gallon

Any triggers/other information :

 

[ausknife]

currently setting up 3 breeding tanks in the garage. 6 ft each.
will keep you posted.

 

[Eupterus]

Species: Clown plecos/panaque maccus.

How many: Four. Three females/one male.

How long trying: I dunno.. maybe 15 yrs on and off. Can't say I'm not determined.

Any successful spawns already: Never

Set up: 55 gal species tank.

Any triggers/other information :
Pesky rainy season. I dunno beating them with a small stick and yelling spawn you lil twits.


Species: Betta splendens

How many: Five. Three females/ two males.

How long trying: There have been no attempts with these fish yet.

Any successful spawns already: Nope, not with these fish. Have bred bettas before in the past.

Set up: Three seperate tanks for the adults.
Fry rearing tank will be a twenty gal long.

Any triggers/other information :
My delta male has built a huge nest under a leaf don't have to worry about that part. The females are so stressed out from the shipping, can't really think about conditioning them for spawning yet.

 

[codeline]

Species: [FONT=arial,sans-serif]Aequidens sp. ‘Atabapo’[/FONT]
How many: 6 adults with allot of .5 - 1 inch growouts
How long trying: Since July (ACA)
Any successful spawns already: 2
Set up: pair currently in 18 gallon with sponge filter, others in 55 and 29
Any triggers/other information : over turned pot and lots of food does the trick

Species: [FONT=arial,sans-serif]Tilapia nyderae[/FONT]
How many: pair with small 1/4 inch fry
How long trying: < 6 months
Any successful spawns already: 2 (one spawn lost to Tubas)
Set up: pair currently in 29 gallon with sponge filter and corner filter.
Any triggers/other information : They spawned near PVC pipe, the pair is my them selfs and are taking good care of the fry.

Species: [FONT=arial,sans-serif]Tilapia brevamanus [/FONT]
How many: 8
How long trying: > 8 months
Any successful spawns already: 0
Set up: All in a 50 gallon
Any triggers/other information : I don't know about these guys Jim at mainlycichlids.com was able to breed them. I think that they like diftwood arches.

Also growing out
Tomocichla tuba group of 5
Archocentrus panamensis "Red" group of 8
Theraps irregularis

group of 9
Thorichthys sp. "Blue Mixteco" group of 5

 

[nolapete]

Species: [FONT=arial,sans-serif]Aequidens portalgrensis[/FONT]
How many: pair
How long trying: August 07
Any successful spawns already: no
Set up: shared 75 with 3 plecos, 2 fat sleepers, 2 bps, 1 blue spot goby
Any triggers/other information : tubes are coming down and they are colored up really nice, so maybe this week. Partitioned tank to give them a little privacy. They be going in their own 35 once I see what they do.

Species: Cichlasoma festae
How many: 1 wild pair another proven wild pair arriving 10/16/07
How long trying: 2.5 years with 2 other pairs prior to hurricane "festae killer" Katrina, a week so far this time
Any successful spawns already: no
Set up: both pairs will share a partitioned 110
Any triggers/other information : largest pair I lost the 14" male was too docile for the wild female, they were in a 90H and just dug and ate.

Species: Microgeophagus ramirezi
How many: 3 pairs
How long trying: 10/07
Any successful spawns already: no
Set up: currently all three pairs are in one 10 gallon. They will get their own tanks soon
Any triggers/other information :

Species: Nandopsis haitiensis
How many: 0.0.4 growing out
How long trying: 10/07
Any successful spawns already: no
Set up: individual 10 gallon tanks until they need bigger tanks
Any triggers/other information :

Species: [SIZE=-1]Glossolepis incisus[/SIZE]
How many: 3 sub-adults
How long trying: August 07
Any successful spawns already: no
Set up: community planted 90H
Any triggers/other information :

Species: albino bristlenose cats
How many: 11 growouts
How long trying: July 07
Any successful spawns already: no
Set up: community planted 90H
Any triggers/other information :

Species: Herichthys sp. turquoise
How many: 8 growouts
How long trying: 10/07
Any successful spawns already: no
Set up: 65L
Any triggers/other information :

Species: exCichlasoma bocourti
How many: 12 growouts
How long trying: 10/07
Any successful spawns already: no
Set up: 65L
Any triggers/other information :

Species: angels
How many: 20 smokey growouts, 6 black ghost growouts
How long trying: 9/07
Any successful spawns already: no
Set up: 65H
Any triggers/other information :

 

[Red Devil]

Species...N. Venustus

How many 2 -male and female

How long trying: 4 months

Any successful spawns already - 45 babies

Set up: Sandy substrate with appropriate sized caves, light flow.

Any triggers/other information: Temperature slight increase

I also have yellow labs, boreyli red fins holding. And many angels with fry..

Just a couple of pics of n.venustus..the father and mother and babies pics

 

[Land Shark]

tHOSE ARE TWO NICE LOOKING FISH! BUT I THINK YOU SHOULD KEEP THEM SEPARATE, OR BREED THEM WITH THER OWN SPECIES.

 

[Red Devil]

tHOSE ARE TWO NICE LOOKING FISH! BUT I THINK YOU SHOULD KEEP THEM SEPARATE, OR BREED THEM WITH THER OWN SPECIES. THER ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE BREEDING MUTTFISH THAT THEY DONT KNOW WHAT TO CALL THEM. I KNOW THAT ALOT OF THE FISH WE KEEP TODAY ARE HYBRIDS, BUT WHAT WOULD THE WORLD BELIKE FOR FISH KEEPERS IF ALL THE FISH IN YOUR LFS WERE THE SAME. THATS WHATS HAPPENING I SEE TOO MANY MUTTFISH AKA "FLOWERHORNS" IN THE LFS AND REAL FISH KEEPERS DONT BUY THEM. I ONLY BUY PURE BREDS AND THAT S WHAT I BREED. NOT TRING TOO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO WITH YOURS JUST SOMETHIN TO THINK ABOUT.:I have to agree with part of what you said...but FH are awesome.... but these are pure N.Venustus babies..Males are just more color... Heres something to think about... alot of males look different then the females.. some of these babies if their males will look like daddy and if they are females they will look just like mommie..but they are pure N.Venustus..many many fish fit in this catagory..what you see in the LFS stores are mostly males because they have more color then the usually plain looking females....especially africans...heres another one i breed..redfin kandangos..borleyi..the male is sharply colored the female is just silver with red fins..

 

[rallysman]

tHOSE ARE TWO NICE LOOKING FISH! BUT I THINK YOU SHOULD KEEP THEM SEPARATE, OR BREED THEM WITH THER OWN SPECIES. THER ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE BREEDING MUTTFISH THAT THEY DONT KNOW WHAT TO CALL THEM. I KNOW THAT ALOT OF THE FISH WE KEEP TODAY ARE HYBRIDS, BUT WHAT WOULD THE WORLD BELIKE FOR FISH KEEPERS IF ALL THE FISH IN YOUR LFS WERE THE SAME. THATS WHATS HAPPENING I SEE TOO MANY MUTTFISH AKA "FLOWERHORNS" IN THE LFS AND REAL FISH KEEPERS DONT BUY THEM. I ONLY BUY PURE BREDS AND THAT S WHAT I BREED. NOT TRING TOO TELL YOU WHAT TO DO WITH YOURS JUST SOMETHIN TO THINK ABOUT.

I'm not a real fish keeper?

 

[Dread]

Lol... Rallysman, you're the pinnacle of fishkeeping...

And to stay on topic, and update my projects:

Species: Tiger Barb (Puntius tetrazona), wildcaught

How many: 2m/1f hopefully. I'm not positive on sexing, but am fairly sure I have 2m/1f

How long trying: 2 weeks

Any successful spawns already: None yet

Set up: 5g tank, sponge filter, heater, marble substrate to protect eggs, temp. at 82F, slightly soft acid water

Any triggers/other information : Breeding these to get a good size shoal, as Tiger Barbs are some of the most tightly shoaling and active fish out there. I've also found that MANY large species won't eat Tiger Barbs (atleast this is my experience). I've seen them being kept on display at a LFS with a Jardini, 2 Dats, and 3 Rays (I think Moto rays, but I'm not sure), and I've kept them with a 13'' Oscar in the past, and he never touched them. And he was definately NOT Docile.

If this goes good with the Tiger Barbs, I would like to try to breed some other small schooling species that are a bit more challenging. Celestial Pearl Danios (AKA Galaxy Rasboras), Cardinal Tetras, and Rummynose Tetras, specifically.


Species: German Blue Rams

How many: 1m/1f

How long trying: ~3 months

Any successful spawns already: Yes, 5. Only raised to wrigglers due to my own errors.

Set up: 10g tank, heavy leaf liter, 86F, Sponge Filter, very heavily tannin-stained water using Ketapang leaves (which, I HIGHLY suggest)

Any triggers/other information : Heavy feedings of all kinds of live food. Brine Shrimp, Daphnia, Black Worms, on very rare occasions live Mysis as well, along with Hikari Bio-Gold+, to keep colours up. After I see the female is plump with eggs, a 25% water change with straight RO will usually trigger spawning. My male is gorgeous, but his fry-rearing and egg-care insticts are terrible, which confuses me because they're Wild Caught, and I don't know how this happened. Maybe I've heard false information regarding Evolution and instincts.


Species: Apistogramma sp. 'Pebas'

How many: 1m/1f

How long trying: ~3 weeks

Any successful spawns already: No

Set up: 10g heavily planted tank

Any triggers/other information : I have a couple worries with this one. The fish may actually be two males, which obviously would be a problem. They're too small to show full colours and properly sex them. I am fairly sure there's a female, but I could be just looking at the subdominant male. I know for a fact I have atleast one male. The tank they're in is heavily planted and growing quickly, so if there is eggs, I'm afraid I won't see them.. that is, if they can evade the Corydoras Pygmaeus in the tank long enough for me to even notice. I may be going back and getting a definate female in the near future



Species: Corydoras Pygmaeus

How many: 8 (fairly sure 4m/4f)

How long trying: ~2.5 weeks

Any successful spawns already: Yes, two. Fry got eaten on both occasions by a Pleco who has since been removed

Set up: 10g heavily planted. Same tank as the Apistogramma sp. 'Pebas'

Any triggers/other information : Just learning the ropes with Corydoras. I have been reading about various species spawning on PlantCatfish.com and would like to try harder species in the future. I've heard that Pygmaeus are good starters, and because of their small size, I can easily house them. This species of Corydoras only gets to about 1.5''. My new favourite LFS gets them by the 200s almost every weeks, so I have a steady supply for the future if something should happen with mine now. Triggers are extremely easy. My tap is naturally soft and acid, so they're right at home with this. The only trigger I need to do to a >15% water change with water that is a couple degrees cooler. For breeding these, I do a 25% change with water that is approx. 6F cooler, and eggs are laid on the glass consistently. I condition them on the same foods as the Blue Rams, except for the brine shrimp. Because of their size, the fry are always eaten. However, if I needed to keep any (which I will in the future), the fish will be transfered to a bare-bottom 5g tank. They do not eat their own eggs.

Hopefully soon I will be working on spawning the following:
L-066 (King Tiger Pleco)
Celestial Pearl Danios
Cardinal Tetras
Various Apistogramma spp.
Corydoras Sterbai
C. habrosus
Crenicichla Regani (dwarf Pikes ^____^)


Oh what the future could bring me!