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Well well, that's a nice male growing out beautifully and the colours are up and running. Good luck with them Joseph.
Hopefully it won't be long before I can set up for breeding
Well well, that's a nice male growing out beautifully and the colours are up and running. Good luck with them Joseph.
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Nice looking male fish. Good luck with your Notho. kayuni population...
Thanks guys! The little male is getting more and more colorful/larger as the days go by
He is looking very colorful -- congrats!
Deborah
Thanks piscesgirl! I'll be sure to update on him as he grows.
Well here is an update
For one, thing, the males are beginning to fight more and more often. Right now it seems to be mainly over food/territory but I bet if their was a female in here thats what they'd be after.
The same male I have been photographing through these 3 photo sets. Biggest and also the most photogenic(probably because everyone else gets chased away from the camera...hehe).
Bad photo...but as you can see, the smaller males are catching up.
Very nice fish. All of them are very well-fed. What do you feed them with?
Edwin Lim
Thanks Edwin. Right now the fish are being fed BBS(it is practically impossible to make them full using this), blackworms, grindalworms, and occasional frozen bloodworms. I try to keep their bellies bulging slightly at all times right now. With this and lots of waterchanges they seem to be growing very fast.
I see. I only use frozen bloodworms and BBS. I have not tried getting blackworms online yet. Well, thanks for sharing.Originally Posted by nonamethefish
Edwin Lim
Edwin: Since you keep these guys also at what age did you start breeding the males? I have this group of 6 males of varying sizes/maturation and 2 females hatched in April. I'd like to get them breeding ASAP.
From the picture, the males look mature enough to breed. For me, I look at the size of the female. As long as the females are strong enough to withstand the male "harassment", I will breed them. Your females (hatched in April) are ready
Edwin Lim
Don't the males have to be around equal size with the female? I'm wondering what will happen when they try to spawn...he will either have to sit next to her or put his dorsal fin over her and not touch the ground
So far, I have not tried a male smaller or equal in size than the female. I do not see any problemDon't the males have to be around equal size with the female? I'm wondering what will happen when they try to spawn...he will either have to sit next to her or put his dorsal fin over her and not touch the ground
I know that for betta, this is true because the male has to curl on the female when they spawn. So in the case, size matters
Edwin Lim
Well...tried em, and sure enough they spawned! Unfortunately I am left with only one female as this morning when I woke up the other one was uncoordinated and looked very tired/swam with jerky movements. I suspect internal injury but outside she was flawless. Decided not to let her suffer for any longer and IME fish gone that far don't come back.
Now I need to figure out how to get the fish to spawn in the container of peat I gave em instead of on the peat that got kicked out onto the bottom of the tank!
the current dominant male(believe it or not!)
The largest male.
Best shot I could get of the males fighting. Almost captures that Nothobranchius spirit.
Joseph? (Did I get that right?),
You could place the pair in a small critter keeper equipped with a sponge filter and a layer of peat on the bottom.
Remove the pair after they've spawned and collect the peat layer for storage. That's my other method when a pair does not enter the bowl to spawn but rather on the tank bottom.
You just re-ignited my interest in this Notho. I had the Kayuni State Farm population some time ago and I must say, those had lesser reds than your fish. Hmm.. now its just time I went to find some eggs.
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Hello Jianyang,
I've been doing something similar. Put the female and male in fo a few hours of spawning before removing them. Seemed to work well and to say the least they spawned up a storm! I actually noticed omething pretty interesting yesterday. I noticed the female wasn't accepting much food and was pacing around. Then, she shook her body a bit, and several eggs fell out(which she promptly turned around to eat). After dropping maybe eight like this I decided to remove her and sure enough she was ready to spawn.
Glad to hear you liked the photos
~Joseph
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