Wild Trombeta x Wild Cuipeua

[Second Hand Pat]

Larry, I colored coded the very bottom fourth of the spawn. Six colors with 30 eggs per color is 180 eggs and stopped there. I guessing between 700 to 800 eggs.

[dirtyplants]

I was going to say Pat how can you count them out.
Well if they hatch and survive you will have your hands full. You going to be one busy lady.

[Second Hand Pat]

Coree, lets get these guys to wiggler stage before we start to worry.

[dirtyplants]

Sorry Pat I keep looking at your pics and wondering how the wigglers when they hatch and not get eaten, will find the parents with dark wood, so I am demanding your little male not to eat those fry, just to see how they find the parents.

[marinum]

Full panoramic photo .... :-)

[Second Hand Pat]

Sorry Pat I keep looking at your pics and wondering how the wigglers when they hatch and not get eaten, will find the parents with dark wood, so I am demanding your little male not to eat those fry, just to see how they find the parents.

Coree, this is the third pair which has formed in this tank and I have pulled four batches of fry to date. If the eggs go to mid tomorrow afternoon I will insert a large foam divider between the pair and the rest of the tank.

[Second Hand Pat]

Full panoramic photo .... :-)

I will tonight when this is not reflection. The tank does not really look at much. Every time I go to add wood the darn fish decide it is spawning time.

[marinum]

Fantastic ... thanks!

[wild-blue-discus]

dammm they are some nice discus, awesome colors! Its a pity i dont see too many of this variant in Australia!

[jaykne]

Sorry Pat I keep looking at your pics and wondering how the wigglers when they hatch and not get eaten, will find the parents with dark wood, so I am demanding your little male not to eat those fry, just to see how they find the parents.

Coree they will have no problem, you run into problems when the parents can't get dark like albino's or pigeon's. How do you think they do it in the wild.

[jaykne]

Very nice Pat I hope the parents have learned a little since the last spawn .

[Len]

Larry, I colored coded the very bottom fourth of the spawn. Six colors with 30 eggs per color is 180 eggs and stopped there. I guessing between 700 to 800 eggs.

Could be 2 females maybe? That seems like a lot of eggs for one fish to lay. If they are a true pair then it will certainly be happy day when the spawn hatches.

[Pardal]

Pat , I don't want to jinx it, just crossing the finger for wigglers.


Julian.

[dirtyplants]

Coree they will have no problem, you run into problems when the parents can't get dark like albino's or pigeon's. How do you think they do it in the wild.

I thought they placed their eggs on plant leaves, and you are right it's dark for the most part in their environment, so how do fry know their parents compared to a dark tree trunk?

[Keith Perkins]

I would have liked a better picture to work with, but I'm thinking...



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