Where are the eggs(Aphyosemion splendopleure)

[nonamethefish]

Posted this to killitalk and thought I might get some more opinions here.

I haven't been finding eggs in with my Aphyosemion splendopleure despite the fact that they are obviously spawning. Its a ten gallon tank with 2 pairs(removed small male cause he was suspected of eating eggs). Now I'm pretty sure the larger(and yet less productive) female is snacking on the eggs. When I moved the smaller female and a male to a seperate place to spawn-I managed to locate 3 eggs in the moss. I tried putting them in a small container w java moss but they fungused.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

~Joseph

[RonWill]

Joseph, I'm glad to see you've finally decided to sign off and Kwek Leong can quit wondering why "thefishhasnoname"

For the SPL, try swapping mates and see if that new combo is more prolific. OTOH, a trio, reversed trio or separated conditioning may be the ticket (that said, I've yet to see anything in the elberti's mop )

Fungicized eggs could mean many things but are the SPL sexually mature?

[nonamethefish]

LOL- yeah sorry about the mixup.

The SPL look mature to me. The dominant male has quite long fin extensions as posted in the earlier thread. According to the original owner(he had them in a colony type tank) they could be anywhere from 6 months to a year old.

[ruyle]

If I may stick my nose in here: the 8 eggs of SPL I got from Tony, 7 hatched out, and 5 grew to maturity: 3 males, 2 females. I never picked
eggs, but they were in a heavily planted ten gallon tank with water lettuce
covering 3/4 of the surface. About every 5-6 weeks I would net fry and
place them in a grow-out tank. I gave away many pairs and trios to folk
in 2 years' time. I found them extremely easy in a permanent setup. I
can't remember if I read it on the BKA list, but they seem to like breeding
in a group of 5-6 fish. Hopefully, Joseph, you will get some eggs to hatch out to form a group The eggs from Tony were in peat (the long-fibered
German stuff) which I simply dunked in water and hatched them out.

Bill

[nonamethefish]

Farang: I may copy your setup and use waterlettuce. Did you ever find eggs amongst the roots? Also, while I have grown them before-this ten gallon only has a single 15 watt over it. Is that still enough for water lettuce? Praps Salvinia or Azolla might be a better alternative.

[ruyle]

Farang: I may copy your setup and use waterlettuce. Did you ever find eggs amongst the roots? Also, while I have grown them before-this ten gallon only has a single 15 watt over it. Is that still enough for water lettuce? Praps Salvinia or Azolla might be a better alternative.

I like the water lettuce the best, nice bodacious root systems if they like
their home I've never had any luck with them in an open tank or using
eggcrate diffuser panels. Use glass or cracked-ice styrene panels cut to
fit the top of the tank. Floating watersprite also needs this warm air/humidity around the foliage to thrive. I had an old gouramie book written in the 40's or 50's that was most insistent on using incandescent light for watersprite! Which of course would make the surface quite warm. Cut our hard Alabama water down by using filtered rainwater or RO water 50/50.

No, I've never seen eggs in the roots, just fry in the corners

HTH,

Bill(Farang)

[nonamethefish]

It looks like picking the eggs pretty much gives them a death sentence. I'll be trying the colony method you described and leaving the eggs where they are to see how this works.

[ruyle]

Also, 15w fluorescent should be just fine. I used a single 13w cf bulb with Miro4 reflector for my 5 and 10 gallon tanks.

Bill

ps Joseph, Tanaka-san shipped out my 30 eggs from Tokyo yesterday.
Would you be interested in some teenager Fp walkeri? That is, of course,
I'm blessed with a good hatch.

[nonamethefish]

I'll be on the lookout for any oppurtunities to get ahold of water lettuce.


I would be interested in Fp. walkeri(providing you hatch them and they give you a good sex ratio) but still haven't found a home yet for the single male blue gularis. One person said he needed him but appears to have dropped out of contact.