Sometime Jul/Aug last year, I came off couple of years of zebra breeding and wanted to try some other species. I already have other hypans, so decided to return to my first loves...<3
For royals, I collected a pair of LDA65 and BEC adults (peru greens and L190 were false starts). For pseudas, news of Xingu dam project etc plus previous interest narrowed my choice to L25s. I actually wanted L24 Tucuri, but none was available. Started to buy up any 25s I can find 12" and above. All were from hobbyists and I ended with a dozen; 9 males : 3 females, TL ranging from 12" to 3 giants males which are 16"++.
It has been 4 to 5 months since I had them in their new concrete pond with sandy bottom, size about 15'l x6'w x3'h...I should measure again to confirm. There are 15 caves of varying sizes, lots of wood, plants like lotus, natural algae on the wall, etc. Since I started this project, fellow hobbyists have breed L600s and L273s successfully in glass tanks.
Its not possible for me to know when there are spawns in the pond if any, until maybe when the fry are free swimming and swim up to the side of the pond. If the breeding project is not successful, my secondary objective is to groom my L25 to 24":drool:
I kept them in a my friend's pond initially, and after more than one month, took all of them out to transfer to another pond, to check on their well being and to comfirm sex ratio.
This series of pictures was taken on the day of transfer by a friend, Hellsonic from AF. There were many good friends, helping out that day
One of the fiesty males, the big net behind was what I used for the capture.
I broke its lyre during the capture, heart pain.
A giant recovering from trimmed tail by previous owner. This guy is one big red pineapple.
Another big one, natural outdoor condition brings out the red...
Needed a few cartons to do the transfer
Its a Boy!
Another big one, actually I forgotten if the biggest was 16", 17" or 18"...
This one was last out cos it wedged itself tightly into a concrete crevice, I had to use a cloth to drag it out after a long time, not sure it was more tired than me, but glad I got it out unharmed:
After doing a final headcount, that's yours truly happily, tiredly and dirtily, emerging from my minature Amazon
This is just a personal pic log on my mini adventure, I won't be able to provide scientific data, etc.
I measured, water temperature 1 ft below ranges from 26 to 28 degrees celcius, ambience temperature same as Amazon ( "we" are both near the equator ), pH is a constant 7.
Hope you enjoyed this. And BIG thanks to the mods here for being so supportive.
Cheers
For royals, I collected a pair of LDA65 and BEC adults (peru greens and L190 were false starts). For pseudas, news of Xingu dam project etc plus previous interest narrowed my choice to L25s. I actually wanted L24 Tucuri, but none was available. Started to buy up any 25s I can find 12" and above. All were from hobbyists and I ended with a dozen; 9 males : 3 females, TL ranging from 12" to 3 giants males which are 16"++.
It has been 4 to 5 months since I had them in their new concrete pond with sandy bottom, size about 15'l x6'w x3'h...I should measure again to confirm. There are 15 caves of varying sizes, lots of wood, plants like lotus, natural algae on the wall, etc. Since I started this project, fellow hobbyists have breed L600s and L273s successfully in glass tanks.
Its not possible for me to know when there are spawns in the pond if any, until maybe when the fry are free swimming and swim up to the side of the pond. If the breeding project is not successful, my secondary objective is to groom my L25 to 24":drool:
I kept them in a my friend's pond initially, and after more than one month, took all of them out to transfer to another pond, to check on their well being and to comfirm sex ratio.
This series of pictures was taken on the day of transfer by a friend, Hellsonic from AF. There were many good friends, helping out that day
One of the fiesty males, the big net behind was what I used for the capture.
I broke its lyre during the capture, heart pain.
A giant recovering from trimmed tail by previous owner. This guy is one big red pineapple.
Another big one, natural outdoor condition brings out the red...
Needed a few cartons to do the transfer
Its a Boy!
Another big one, actually I forgotten if the biggest was 16", 17" or 18"...
This one was last out cos it wedged itself tightly into a concrete crevice, I had to use a cloth to drag it out after a long time, not sure it was more tired than me, but glad I got it out unharmed:
After doing a final headcount, that's yours truly happily, tiredly and dirtily, emerging from my minature Amazon
This is just a personal pic log on my mini adventure, I won't be able to provide scientific data, etc.
I measured, water temperature 1 ft below ranges from 26 to 28 degrees celcius, ambience temperature same as Amazon ( "we" are both near the equator ), pH is a constant 7.
Hope you enjoyed this. And BIG thanks to the mods here for being so supportive.
Cheers
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