Over a couple of years ago I acquired from Mr G a small group of what were possibly L002.
Over the next year I added 4 separate fish creating a group of 6 females and one male.
I held out little hope for this group to breed as they balance was just one male.
I placed them in a 2foot cube tank and awaited activity.
At first the male showed breeding behaviour fanning in an oak cave, but no eggs after around 6 months I risked a pep in the cave and it was full of eggs not just eggs but also wrigglers and free swimming fry.
From that point he never stopped it seemed a queue of females were constantly awaiting his services.
I decided to rear the fry outside of the cave so gently I removed the cave and emptied the contents in to a fry saver every week yes honestly every week I had 20 or more fry!
The fry grew quite fast on a diet of crushed flake and Sera Wood chip tablets.
Once they were free swimming and about 3 weeks old they were distributed around the other tanks in my fish house. Happily growing to around 1†in 16 weeks,
I am still finding L002 in tanks now despite selling the group over a year ago.
All spawn’s were in the one oak cave, I would remove the male for a week or two every 6 weeks so he could eat. His condition on being removed was quite amazing if I saw a fish in that bad shape I would assault the owner for mistreating, he had basically no fins a sunken belly and sunken eyes. He would recover in around 10 days and then start fanning again.
When sold he was fanning in the bag he went off in. This male would in human terms be Errol Flynn. X 10.
Conditions were
Temp 29 c
Kh 5
Ph 7
Water flow
Fast
Eheim 2128
And
Eheim power head running a spray bar across the cave mouth.
Substrate
mixed gravel and sand bed
Decoration
Lots of bog wood I mean lots
I would add 2 large Almond leaves every 2 or 3 weeks.
Water changes were RO HMA mix at a TDS of 180 to 200 every 2 or 3 days total of 10% of the tank volume. The water was unheated and every few days I would use neat RO for a water change. Dropping the temp to fewer than 24 c, this seems to coincide with some of the spawns.
Fry
Over the next year I added 4 separate fish creating a group of 6 females and one male.
I held out little hope for this group to breed as they balance was just one male.
I placed them in a 2foot cube tank and awaited activity.
At first the male showed breeding behaviour fanning in an oak cave, but no eggs after around 6 months I risked a pep in the cave and it was full of eggs not just eggs but also wrigglers and free swimming fry.
From that point he never stopped it seemed a queue of females were constantly awaiting his services.
I decided to rear the fry outside of the cave so gently I removed the cave and emptied the contents in to a fry saver every week yes honestly every week I had 20 or more fry!
The fry grew quite fast on a diet of crushed flake and Sera Wood chip tablets.
Once they were free swimming and about 3 weeks old they were distributed around the other tanks in my fish house. Happily growing to around 1†in 16 weeks,
I am still finding L002 in tanks now despite selling the group over a year ago.
All spawn’s were in the one oak cave, I would remove the male for a week or two every 6 weeks so he could eat. His condition on being removed was quite amazing if I saw a fish in that bad shape I would assault the owner for mistreating, he had basically no fins a sunken belly and sunken eyes. He would recover in around 10 days and then start fanning again.
When sold he was fanning in the bag he went off in. This male would in human terms be Errol Flynn. X 10.
Conditions were
Temp 29 c
Kh 5
Ph 7
Water flow
Fast
Eheim 2128
And
Eheim power head running a spray bar across the cave mouth.
Substrate
mixed gravel and sand bed
Decoration
Lots of bog wood I mean lots
I would add 2 large Almond leaves every 2 or 3 weeks.
Water changes were RO HMA mix at a TDS of 180 to 200 every 2 or 3 days total of 10% of the tank volume. The water was unheated and every few days I would use neat RO for a water change. Dropping the temp to fewer than 24 c, this seems to coincide with some of the spawns.
Fry
