New (possible loach) baby mystery!

Jim Powers · Post by **Jim Powers** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:02 pm

Those pics really show development of the pattern over time.
They were very cooperative for you today.

Graeme Robson · Post by **Graeme Robson** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:56 pm

It must be that Lazy Sunday feeling!

Lovely!

limecharacin · Post by **limecharacin** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:53 pm

Good Grief, Emma! I only DREAM of taking those kinds of pictures. How do you do it?

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:27 pm

Cheers chaps!

limecharacin wrote:Good Grief, Emma! I only DREAM of taking those kinds of pictures. How do you do it?

Thank you limecharacin.

It's lots and lots of practice, taking loads of pictures and deleting a massive proportion of them before being left with a few 'acceptables'.

Emma

hemi · Post by **hemi** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:17 pm

i cant believe you got them together picts
soooo coooool

janma · Post by **janma** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:11 am

When a female sewellia is carrying eggs is it possible to see them when it hangs on the glass? One of my big females has yellow/orange colouring beneath the skin where i would think the eggs are.

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:39 am

I've looked so many times at mine, but never seen what I would say were definitely eggs. Mine all have pigment variations on the underneath areas, which might be what you are seeing.

For all the P. cheni breeders, have you ever observed eggs within the females when they are resting on the glass?

Emma

Martin Thoene · Post by **Martin Thoene** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:14 am

No....never seen eggs in a female cheni. Even when they're in the middle of spawning and rested on the glass, I've seen nothing.

Martin.

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:21 am

That's very interesting, thanks Martin.

janma · Post by **janma** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:24 pm

Do Sewellia/Gastromyzon just scatter the eggs or do they stick them to a surface? Reason I´m asking is this...

These are mystery eggs.

Could be the pitbull plecos too but they should show some interest to them but theres no arround.

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:39 pm

Here's a link to the Planet catfish page on them. There's a shot of eggs on glass there. See what you think.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/sp ... ies_id=236

janma · Post by **janma** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:58 pm

Ok. It´s pitbul eggs, I think. Thanks shari.

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:20 pm

It'll be interesting to see if they develop on the glass, or if they disappear. What would you do with 12 little tiny pitbull plecs????

janma · Post by **janma** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:50 pm

Since there are no predators in the tank there is a slight change that some could survive. What I´d do with them, dunno. Maybe sell them and get filthy rich and rule the world, but thats a big maybe.

dlenn · Post by **dlenn** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:23 am

Awww your little one's are so cute Emma.

I have seen the eggs within the female P.Cheni's a couple of times. They have to be in a cooperative mood and on the glass at the front but you can just see them. This is usually when they are close to dropping them. They are extremely tiny when seen and are located just slightly lower than the pectoral fins but above the anus in a big mass. Sometimes they have a small bulge or lump on this point too.

The females tend to be quite twitchy at this point so we have been unable to get pictures of them although I have often thought of trying. It usually goes like this.... reach for camera, cheni disappears.

As has been said before the Male usually digs a spawning pit and the eggs are hidden in there although we have seen one of ours once dig her own pit and drop the eggs in it. They stick together in a mass of eggs.

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