Cualac Tesselatus Breeding Project
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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.
” border=”0″ alt=”smile.gif” /> They’re already out and about and showing interest in food so I think that with a good diet they should start to put on some size sooner rather than later. As not much is known about the species I thought it’d be interesting to keep a log here of pictures and information as they grow and (hopefully) breed. Here’s the old image of the biggest male as a starting point and I’ll continue to update this thread as things happen.</p>
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Thanks guys.
Here 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.
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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!
Wow that male is stunning
that 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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The camera’s 10.1 MP I was putting myself down.
/smile.gif” style=”vertical-align:middle” emoid=”:)” border=”0″ alt=”smile.gif” />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.
QUOTE (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.” border=”0″ alt=”wink.gif” /> <br />mick<!--QuoteEnd--></div>
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<p>I can give you 50% Mick. <img src=)
/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?
Thats excellent news Matt
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