Breeding

[Lowlbt]

So today the power went out while I was at work and my tank sat with no light heart or filtration for around 6 hours it cooled down from 28 to 20°c and I was stressing big time.

But to my surprise when I got everything back up and running I found 3 of my females were now holding eggs. .......

I am already getting plenty of babies from my electric yellows now my hongis and my mbamba bays are all holding could this have been triggered by the cold conditions???

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[Fresh2o]

Perhaps. Some breeding responses are triggered by the start of the rainy season. An influx of new, cooler water. This is often simulated by doing a PWC using slightly cooler water. Congrats!


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[Brookster123]

Perhaps. Some breeding responses are triggered by the start of the rainy season. An influx of new, cooler water. This is often simulated by doing a PWC using slightly cooler water. Congrats!


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[alyxandria]

I have purposely done that to get some of my fish to breed. Slight temperature decrease for a few days. Put a heater in water set aside. Do a water change and add warm water. Voila. They think it's spring and time to breed.


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[toddnbecka]

No worries about a 6 hour power outage, don't even need to break out the battery-powered air pump for that length of downtime. I'm surprised the temp dropped that quickly though, how big is the tank?

 

[Lowlbt]

Its a 6ft around 260lts just a standard 6ft.
Well as far as I know it was only 6 hrs but it could have been longer as I didn't check it when I woke up for work as I wake up so early

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