Captive Bred MINI Marbles anyone?

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Where they are still mating, I wonder if the male aparicio will contribute to the offspring?
 
spotfin said:
Where they are still mating, I wonder if the male aparicio will contribute to the offspring?
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I have always wanted to cross him with a marble, that would be awesome. I picture a marble with black spots. He is the most docile ray I have but he was sure fired up when the action started.
 
Congrats. With all the breeding my rays have done I've never witnessed the act just the births. Cool_mbu had 2 male rays breed the same female and the pups were one of each.
 
KNH said:
Congrats. With all the breeding my rays have done I've never witnessed the act just the births. Cool_mbu had 2 male rays breed the same female and the pups were one of each.
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I have heard of litters from multiple dads, I think cats can do this as well. Only thing with aparicio is they look motoro when pups so if he was the dad to some of the pups you might not know until they get 6-7 inches.
 
Fun news. I'm sure we will all be waiting for the updates.

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Tell us more about the setup these guys are in!!!!

Video??

The umpa loompa race is on!!!! ;)
 
I have a simple setup, tank is 200 gallons with a foot print of 72 x 27". I am running two 4 chamber canisters with 9 watt UV in each one. They are rated around 550 gph each. I have overflows in the back corners that pull water from top and bottom, that water goes through a spin down filter, then into a mag18 then it splits off into each canister. The two canisters then return to the tank. I have a drip system that runs 90 gpd and that is it. The filters are filled with the same media that goes into the Ultima filters (very similar to K1 but sinks). I clean a canister a month and change the filters for the drip every 3 months. I feed mainly shrimp and tilapia with occasional homemade gel food. I feed 5-6 days a week.

Recent changes are I added the 12" female hybrid about 1 month ago. This hybrid came out of my other system that ended up with a bacterial issue. I decided to treat the 200 to be safe as the hybrid had some white on the tip of it's tail. I was on day 3 of the nitrofurazone treatment with the drip system turned off. The water temp climbed from 78 to 82 degrees since I was no longer adding cold fresh water. Day 3 is when the mating took place. At this point I am not sure what triggered it as the rays that mated had been together for over a year and the female marbles had been in that tank since day one. My guess is the water temp change coupled with the female fully maturing.
 
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