B. dario spawning activity

Mad Duff · Post by **Mad Duff** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:21 am

With all the adoption meetings etc I have struggled to keep up to date with water changes etc as much as I would usually, anyway while sorting out the tank containing my group of dario's the other day a problem arose so they were temporarily housed in a 3ft with on their own.

I noticed at the time of moving them that out of the group of 5 fish two were quite porky and the other 3 chunky but slim but never thought anything of it.

Last night I noticed that they were extremely active compared to normal and two fish were following the fattest fish while another one was following the other fat fish and they were racing around the tank for ages, about an hour after I first noticed this activity I looked in again and there were a couple of pits dug into the gravel and all 5 fish were layed in a third pit in the corner of the tank

What with one thing and another I didn't get chance to sit and watch them which was a little annoying so had to just leave them to it, this morning when I went to have a look in the tank there are around 6 pits dug into the gravel around the tank and the fattest fish is no longer fat. I couldn't see the other fat fish so searched around and found her body in a pipe

She had been dead for quite a while and had lost all of her colouration apart from a green tint around the vent area, knowing kuhli's get a green tint when carrying eggs I decided to give the body a slight squeeze and out squirted some very small green eggs, she certainly wasn't as fat as she was last night so I have removed the other 4 fish back to their original tank and I am going to see if anything turns up over the next few days.

Bully · Post by **Bully** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:26 am

Sorry that you lost her

Hopefully you will have had some luck though

NancyD · Post by **NancyD** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:28 am

Wow that's exciting MD! Good Luck! Sad you lost the other female.

Did your sids dig pits too? I don't recall you mentioning that.

Mad Duff · Post by **Mad Duff** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:54 pm

NancyD wrote:
Did your sids dig pits too? I don't recall you mentioning that.

As far as I am aware they didn't but there are similar sorts of pits dug out in that tank regularly and I thought it was the Mesonoemacheilus guentheri that were digging them but the sid's have been seen now on numerous occasions carrying pieces of gravel up onto the slate caves and bogwood

Bully · Post by **Bully** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:43 pm

I've also seen sids dig pits, I have one that's quite proficient at it.

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:23 pm

Interesting report, MD!

Often, accidental spawnings come about when someone moves fish into temporary housing for one reason or another. Keep us posted!

Emma

Mad Duff · Post by **Mad Duff** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 4:37 am

Hopefully I will have some news over the next few days

Emma Turner wrote:Often, accidental spawnings come about when someone moves fish into temporary housing for one reason or another.
Emma

Oh this wasn't accidental it was all planned out.......................Honest

One thing I was wondering about yesterday was how long would it take eggs to go bad so to speak

I was just wondering if the eggs are naturally green or if they had gone bad because she had died, I don't think the green tint visible through the body would normally be visible as I think it was only visible because the colour had faded after death

Keith Wolcott · Post by **Keith Wolcott** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:32 am

Very exciting!!! Keep us posted.

helen nightingale · Post by **helen nightingale** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:48 pm

very interesting! i hope you had some success.

sorry to hear you lost one of your ladies though

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