Uaru fernandezyepezi spawned

[peathenster]

Haven't posted for a while. Happy to be back with some good news - my Uaru fernandezyepezi spawned today Looks like a very small brood and I don't necessarily expect it to work the first time, but I'm pretty happy nevertheless

I really didn't do anything special. Some of you old timers may remember I'm blessed with soft tap water - it comes out of the tap at pH7 but drops to about pH5 in a day. The Uarus are fed romaine lettuce, pellets and frozen worms. Temperature is 80F. 90% water changes weekly.

Posting some videos below. There are more on my youtube channel.

 

[peathenster]

This is from today. Female defending eggs (note the tube). Male already wandered off.

[video=youtube;o1qcCDJXWNM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1qcCDJXWNM[/video]

 

[peathenster]

This is from May 9th, 2012, when I received 18 from Mark Chen (Discus Origin, a vendor here). They were about 1.5" at the time.
[video=youtube;VqEt0hmm-NQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqEt0hmm-NQ[/video]

 

[peathenster]

8 eventually survived QT. This is a month later.
[video=youtube;i1OkM6ZOWnQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1OkM6ZOWnQ[/video]

 

[peathenster]

Moved them into their current home 3 months later.
[video=youtube;IeW5KqNWFd4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeW5KqNWFd4[/video]

 

[UnstoppableJayD]

CONGRATUALTIONS!!!! I need to know everything on how you got trigger them to spawn????

 

[peathenster]

7 months after receiving them. Almost adult size.
[video=youtube;jru1w1ZhWWY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jru1w1ZhWWY[/video]

 

[peathenster]

9 months after receiving them. A social hierarchy formed, with the biggest one bullying everybody around.
[video=youtube;EX9TRUdA9LY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX9TRUdA9LY[/video]

 

[peathenster]

Not much was going on for a year. We moved 3 weeks ago and I took out all the driftwood, etc during the move.

A few days ago there were some major development - a pair formed, and the big bully got beaten up badly. He/she basically lost most of the jaw and died soon after.

It was pretty obvious that the pair like the left corner, so I dropped a couple of rocks there. Fortunately one was chosen as spawning site
[video=youtube;XQ-vnftW6gQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ-vnftW6gQ[/video]

 

[peathenster]

That's all I didn't expect them to spawn now. I'm waiting for a stand/canopy set to be finished for their future home, a 500g (96x40x30). The metal stand can't fit through my door