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A. zolternans spawned

Post by Mad Duff » Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:22 am

While altering the timers this morning on the river tank I noticed that a couple of the A. zolternans were very active in and around the roots and moss, I finished what I was doing and continued onto other tanks not thinking anything of it.

I went back to the river tank about 20 minutes later and saw a male emerging from the moss embracing a female and then they shot into another clump of roots and emerged in the same way, on closer inspection there are hundreds of eggs in different pieces of moss and roots :D

I got a couple of pictures but they are not that good, I have circled the eggs (white dots within moss)
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Post by Keith Wolcott » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:41 am

That was fast. You just added them on Oct 3rd. Congratulations!
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Post by Graeme Robson » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:43 am

Congratulations Mark! 8)

Are you going to let the eggs be left in the aquarium or remove them?

You could always check the external filter later for the fry. :wink:
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Post by daspricey » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:47 am

Thats excellent news!
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Post by Mad Duff » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:42 am

Thanks for the comments :D
Graeme Robson wrote:Congratulations Mark! 8)

Are you going to let the eggs be left in the aquarium or remove them?

You could always check the external filter later for the fry. :wink:
I am leaving the eggs in there, the moss the have laid in on the bogwood is well attached and so are all the java ferns plus I don't have a spare tank at the moment.

Hopefully some will turn up in the filter but I am hoping with all the rock work, bogwood and hidey holes some will manage to survive in the tank.
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Post by clownloachfan » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:20 am

Congrats, i hope you will be the grandfather of numerous A. zolternans. :D
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Post by Emma Turner » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:58 am

Well done MD, excellent stuff. 8) You know we'll be wanting plenty of updates & pics!

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Post by Jim Powers » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:09 pm

Cool!! 8)
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Post by Mad Duff » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:23 pm

Hopefully there will be plenty of photo's and updates to come :D
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Post by helen nightingale » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:21 pm

well done mark. geat news :D
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Post by Whitey_MacLeod » Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:40 pm

Congratulations. Can't wait to see the babies :D
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Post by mickthefish » Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:16 pm

congratulations mark,
the chances of you getting any fry are pretty slim mate, mine spawn all the time in their tank and i have never seen any fry.
if i was you i'd syphon the moss.

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Post by mickthefish » Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:32 pm

hi mark
i take it the eggs dissappeard bud, or are you waiting to see if any fry appear?.

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Post by Emma Turner » Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:15 pm

Yes I was wondering that too. Also MD, did you do anything specific that might have triggered them into spawning? Large cool water change etc?

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Post by Mad Duff » Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:11 am

The eggs didn't seem to get eaten as they were visible for a couple of days and then gradually started disappearing so hopefully that was a sign that they were hatching rather than getting eaten :?

I did do a water change two days before hand and I had switched of the cooling fan, on the days that they spawned the temperature had risen from 76 to 78.

I have seen some very small things moving under cobbles but it could be debris or anything so nothing certain yet, a couple of the females have already started to plump up again so hopefully they are going to start spawning again.
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