L201 1st spawn

Neptune

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Last saturday night I was staring into one of my 201's caves daydreaming and contemplating selling the colony when my eye caught a flash of colour up behind the male. "you bloody beauty" I got fry!! I bought them about 2yrs ago as fry , there are 9 of them from 3 different bloodlines.I have removed cave, dad and fry from 5ft tank and put them into smaller tank. From what I can see of the fry there is almost no yolk sack left and are looking healthy. I am not too sure about the next step to take other than getting brine shrimp ready and making sure I have a good variety of other fresh food . Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Will try to upload some photos as soon as I can.
 

Neptune

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For anyone wanting to know : L201's 2 to 2 1/2 years old. 5ft tank decorated with wood and almond leaves. 30 degrees C . PH 6.6 . Amonia, nitrate, nitrite all 0. Kh 17.9 . Gh 107.4. Fish being fed jbl Pleco novo discs , flake, brine shrimp and bloodworms .
 

Joby

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Congrats on the spawn, its amazing what threatening to sell them does :lol:

Just offer the same food you give the adults but crushed and they should be fine :thumbup:
 

alex_j_5

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well done mate. 201's are my first L number to breed.the fry are pretty slow growing compared to other L fry but still look good taking abit longer to grow to a decent size doesnt matter to much, i feed myn shrimp pellets and they seem to eat it pretty well.
 

Irene0100

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well done, terrific news.
hope water in new tank was same as larger tank so no shocks for them
look forward to some pics later maybe?