Cualac Tesselatus Breeding Project
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January 8, 2009 at 3:34 pm #299976
Some of you may remember these buggers from a few months back. Since then the temperature here has dropped, they’ve been pretty much inactive and haven’t grown much at all. Anyway I’ve just got back from almost 3 weeks away visiting my family in England and girlfriend in southern Spain and brought back a heater and some other bits. You’ve no idea how nervous I was looking through the wool mops for the fish as they are so small and I was worried they might have died as it has been even colder while I’ve been away.
Happily the hardy little so-and-sos are all present and correct so I installed a heater in their container this afternoon.
January 8, 2009 at 4:32 pm #311964Welcome back Matt …… and looking forward to hear from this breeding project.
January 9, 2009 at 12:48 pm #311972glad they survived the cold spell.
lovely looking fish.
good to have you back.January 9, 2009 at 2:06 pm #311973Thanks guys.
January 13, 2009 at 12:02 am #312007Yeah, keep it updated. Really interesting to hear about these.
February 24, 2009 at 6:11 pm #312623Here are a few fairly pathetic update photos I’ve just taken. These are now residing outside on the terrace so hopefully they’ll grow a bit more quickly. Will endeavour to get better pics soon.
Female
Male – he has a bit more colour now.
Now they’re a bit bigger I think I have 2 males and 8 females and I was sitting watching the males defend territories; each above a spawning mop at either end of the container today. The difference in their behaviour after only 48 hours outdoors is incredible as I never saw them do this in the house. I hope to see eggs soon!
February 24, 2009 at 6:31 pm #312625Wow that male is stunning
February 25, 2009 at 10:43 am #312637Hi Matt!
Great to see that they are doing so well. They start to look good and will be breeding soon for sure. Are you using gypsum in their water? I keep a little piece of rock in their tank and seems to be working, since I had no losses during the winter and the males are colouring up now (indoors).
When the weather gets better I´ll put some of them in the greenhouse to breed.
What about the mentos?
Manuel…
February 25, 2009 at 10:48 am #312638That male is really starting to look great Matt. What kind of temperature range is their water when the tank’s outside?
February 25, 2009 at 2:36 pm #312642that fish is bloody gorgeous Matt, and the pics are clear enough to see the rays in the finnage, don’t put your crappy camera down matey.
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mick
February 25, 2009 at 3:13 pm #312644The camera’s 10.1 MP I was putting myself down.
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Edit – Temperature is anything between 16-20°C during the day (maybe a little warmer in the fish containers) and 10-ish at night. They seem to really appreciate the regular photoperiod imo.
May 11, 2009 at 5:47 pm #313748QUOTE (mickthefish @ Feb 25 2009, 03:19 PM) < {POST_SNAPBACK}>looking forward to seeing the post that says youv’e bred them and the young are everywhere./laugh.gif” style=”vertical-align:middle” emoid=”:lol:” border=”0″ alt=”laugh.gif” /> Think the warmer weather is making all the fish go nuts as I’ve just pulled out 15 Cualac eggs from 2 of the 3 mops in their container. I’ve left the third one as Manuel said they didn’t eat the fry last year but I wanted to save some just in case. Manuel do you have any idea of the incubation period for these?
May 11, 2009 at 9:47 pm #313755Thats excellent news Matt
May 12, 2009 at 3:43 pm #313767Hi Matt,
What temperature do you have now there? Mine are not laying eggs yet and are almost fully grown.
About incubation period, I would guess 7 to 10 days or so, no longer than 12 days I think.
Remember to keep gypsum in the fry tank as well. The fry didn´t show any special problems and were raised well last year.
Manuel…
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