Hypancistrus zebra (L046) spawning

AleGer

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I don't even know how many zebra I have in my zebra tank. I bough zebra many times. And Now I even don't remember how many I bought. I suspect that I have 8 of them. I definitely have one adult male, and one adult female. The rest are unsexible subadults.
The aquarium dimensions are 55x40x45 cm. The tank with with stones, fine sand and bone caves. As a filtration two 1200 l/h pomps with sponge. The light turn on not often.
The water conductivity is from 40 to 100 microsimens. Some times I add more top water (500 microsimens) and increase conductivity to 300 and more microsimens. After that I began changes with RO water (30 microsimens).
The temperature is from 27 to 31 C. Some times I increase the temperature to 35 C for several days.

Male:


Female:


The male with the fry in the cave:


The fry first day out from cave:


The fry 1 day out from cave:






The fry 2 days out from cave:
On this day the fry began to eat.


The fry 3 days out from cave:


The fry 4 days out from cave:


 

Irene0100

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lovely
do you find that some have slight variations in pattern? some of mine seem to get straight or slight wiggle in stripe and some slight tail differences.
 

AleGer

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do you find that some have slight variations in pattern? some of mine seem to get straight or slight wiggle in stripe and some slight tail differences.
I think it is due to their young age. When they are older they will have the same parten as the parrents I suppose.