wow, congrats!
wow, congrats!
Congrats bro!
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Hi
Did you manage to see the eggs?
If so, how will it look like?
Ths.
which species?
cheers,
whitish round eggs at 1mm. Easily spoted. Saw it a few times (beckfordi pencil )
The others have never seen them lay before.
Cheers!
Benetay
mm not sure leh... when i clear the tank of my monstorous blyxia, then i saw 4 of the small pencil... they are like 2cm long liao..
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Congrats man. I got a baby golden-pencil in my tank too.
Golden pencil or Nannostomus Beckfordi ,
is relatively easy to breed therefore the most commonly found in LFS.
Cheers!
Benetay
Now if someone managed to breed Coral Red Pencil then good liao.
Congrats! Quick question - do you keep them in an open-top tank, or are there glass covers over the setup?
Thanks!
I had my N. marginatus spawn previously also. But the sad thing is I never saw the eggs, I just found 1 (only 1) surviving pencilfish sometime later. It was probably 2 cm when I saw it, but very noticably smaller than the parents, so, have to be an offspring.
A sure sign that they are going to bred is that they would swim very closely side by side and keep nugging each other as they seek to find a good spawning site. Usually, they like my patch of hairgrass near a dark corner with a large piece of driftwood. Very interesting sight, the mating behaviour.
if you want to breed pencil fish, i find that peat helps a little. feed generously as well. they are big eaters in my opinion.
By the way, I do not find pencil fish jumpy, so do not think there's a need for a top cover.
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