Ivanacara adoketa spawned.

[doppelbanddwarf]

My pair of adoketa have spawned for the 2nd time this morning. The 1st batch of eggs only lasted a few hours and was eaten up. For this batch, already a few eggs have turned white so I'm just crossing my fingers.

Pardon the poor quality of photos.

The pair




Most of the time only the female is guarding the eggs.


Oddly, they choosed the outer surface rather than inside the pot.

[Aquanoob]

Congrats chong yu. Hope that you will have better luck this time.

[barmby]

Congratulations! is this the glutton that commit the crime? heheh

[doppelbanddwarf]

barmby you must have mistaken me for marle.

Anyway half the eggs have turned white so I guess this spawn probably won't make it.

[barmby]

oh ok! good to know : )

[vannel]

Sorry about the eggs.. but, I have to say.. Very nice looking setup there. Looks very natural! Any chance of a FTS..?

[Apistoinka]

Congrats bro... Look cool... Yup can show your full tank shot bro... Would like to see the setup... By the way how big is your tank???

[Jitticus]

Looks really beautiful!

[doppelbanddwarf]

The eggs were gone yesterday. I'll try to get a FTS tonight if possible. Anyway its a simple setup, 3ft tank with just ada africana and driftwood.

[mobile2007]

Time to supply them tonic ? Live adult brine shrimp + frozen blood worms .........lots of proteins , dunno the "viagra" equivalent in aquatics world...too bad....

[doppelbanddwarf]

I have bad experiences with feeding apistos bloodworms or tubifex so I don't feed them even frozen ones. Also recently have not seen adult brineshrimp in Y618.
The only live food I feed them is malayan shrimps but that is only occasionally. Rest of the time they just take NLS pellets. However they are much less active in the larger 3ft compared to when I had them in a 2ft. They also don't rush for the food unlike the first batch of 4 adoketas I kept a few years back.

[mobile2007]

Tubi is really nasty stuff , but i used hikari frozen blood worm without any problem. Anyway, as long the fish eating , anything should be fine.

Any requirement on water parameters for Ivanacara's egg to hatch ? like low pH or cooler temp ??

[doppelbanddwarf]

This is the setup for the adoketas. I have not got round to changing the background to a plain black or white one yet.


And this is my 2ft setup for breeding apistogramma elizabethae. The frogbits roots are a huge mess but I did not want to disturb the female with a batch of fry.


Here's the female. Her first successful spawn. The fry are around 2 weeks old now.


I know the pictures are of pretty low quality, hope you guys don't mind.

[marle]

Habitat looking good..

[mincedmeat]

would have loved if the 3ft tank had black oyama instead; would have given the tank a better look. nonetheless, great work you've got setting up the scapes and all!

[doppelbanddwarf]

I agree that the fake plant background looks terrible.
I personally would prefer a white oyama background although a darker one should be more conducive for the adoketas.And I would need more of those branchy driftwoods.

[apisto31]

Congrats Bro.. Did they manage to fertilize the eggs? My pair has not yet master egg fertilization inside the aquarium!

[doppelbanddwarf]

No the spawn fungused.

[apisto31]

Oh no! looks like we are facing tough times. Mine has 2 failed spawn so far.. still hoping...

[mchw8055]

hey yo APisto lover..! lol.. i am new here..! anyway, your 3 ft tank for your one pair of apisto only?