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Got home today and one of our swordplant leaves is covered with eggs!
they look like wee strings of pearls...
My golden marble veiltails are zealously playing guard duty. YEE HAA!
Saw 'em pairing off from the other two and going 'house hunting' til they seemed to really find one leaf in particular attractive, and then they spent some time chasing everybody else away. (since they chose a spot dead center against the back wall this effectively creates quite a 'no-fly-zone' for all but a few brave fish.)
We didn't think this would happen so fast!
We weren't sure if we was really seeing their genital papillae, but now after spawning, the reg veiltail's is much longer and the one on the x-tra long veil's is smaller.
neither looked preg - just well fed, like the others.
We hear we've got 36-48 hrs til fry hatch, and abour 5 days til they use up yolk-sac - then we have to kick it into high gear!
: who's the daddy? who's the mommy?
: what/how to feed little egg-layer fish.
(bred livebearers like guppies, mollies, swordtails b4 only)
: should we hold off on tank-cleaning 4 a while?
(this tank has a panaque - read poo-factory! - and we do a 50% gravel/water x weekly)
any and all advice appreciated....
Ahh, we gotta get a camera!
55G FW community
6.8pH
80F (up from 1 wk at 76F)
diet: freeze-dr bloodworms/froz bloodworms, flakes, live/dried br shrimp
parents are 3" not counting tail.
tankmates are: z danios, neon tetras, 2 bl mollies, 3 corys, 1 colisa lalia,1 sailfin placo, 1 panaque, and 2 other sibling angels
Got home today and one of our swordplant leaves is covered with eggs!
they look like wee strings of pearls...
My golden marble veiltails are zealously playing guard duty. YEE HAA!
Saw 'em pairing off from the other two and going 'house hunting' til they seemed to really find one leaf in particular attractive, and then they spent some time chasing everybody else away. (since they chose a spot dead center against the back wall this effectively creates quite a 'no-fly-zone' for all but a few brave fish.)
We didn't think this would happen so fast!
We weren't sure if we was really seeing their genital papillae, but now after spawning, the reg veiltail's is much longer and the one on the x-tra long veil's is smaller.
neither looked preg - just well fed, like the others.
We hear we've got 36-48 hrs til fry hatch, and abour 5 days til they use up yolk-sac - then we have to kick it into high gear!
: who's the daddy? who's the mommy?
: what/how to feed little egg-layer fish.
(bred livebearers like guppies, mollies, swordtails b4 only)
: should we hold off on tank-cleaning 4 a while?
(this tank has a panaque - read poo-factory! - and we do a 50% gravel/water x weekly)
any and all advice appreciated....
Ahh, we gotta get a camera!
55G FW community
6.8pH
80F (up from 1 wk at 76F)
diet: freeze-dr bloodworms/froz bloodworms, flakes, live/dried br shrimp
parents are 3" not counting tail.
tankmates are: z danios, neon tetras, 2 bl mollies, 3 corys, 1 colisa lalia,1 sailfin placo, 1 panaque, and 2 other sibling angels