breeding senegals
- Thread starter Johny
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Hi Johny,
i've not often read about breeding of bichirs (in relation to cichlids or others), but if i've read about senegalus often was subject ...
I have a pair of P.senegalus since several years, the last two years i could watch courtship, this year i could watch real breeding. This was approx. two months ago, but there are some indices that this breeduíng wasn't a one-time-action ... i think they had made "it" some more times in this period.
The most important things were said by Anne, our Queen of bichir knowledge (worldwide i think 'cause i had never read so much informations about bichirs!).
But i want to talk about some personal experience relating to the breeding of P.senegalus ...
Courtship often led in by partial water changes - but this will not cause real breeding. The male wants, the female wants NOT (as we know about humans) ...
Due to the real breeding i had complete new terms in the tank they are living in: My plants were growing more rapidly as ever - i didn't make any water changes over the time of 4(!!!) months! But the chemistry of the water was OK anymore ...
But the new terms - an underwater jungle - had a handicap: I could not pick up any eggs! When i realized that my sens were breeding i had to watch that my ornate and weeksi also had realized the event - but much earlier than me! They were waiting directly under the anal fin of the male - waiting for the opening when the eggs went their way ... the sens had shown a smart behaviour: The breeding happened directly over a rich rooted Anubias - but especially the ornate went crazy to get ALL eggs and dashed wildly into these roots causing a fog of all other substances hiding in these roots.
I only saw the eggs for a short time - never any larvae ... the presence of optimized predators didn't allow any survivors.
Greetings
Uwe
i've not often read about breeding of bichirs (in relation to cichlids or others), but if i've read about senegalus often was subject ...
I have a pair of P.senegalus since several years, the last two years i could watch courtship, this year i could watch real breeding. This was approx. two months ago, but there are some indices that this breeduíng wasn't a one-time-action ... i think they had made "it" some more times in this period.
The most important things were said by Anne, our Queen of bichir knowledge (worldwide i think 'cause i had never read so much informations about bichirs!).
But i want to talk about some personal experience relating to the breeding of P.senegalus ...
Courtship often led in by partial water changes - but this will not cause real breeding. The male wants, the female wants NOT (as we know about humans) ...
Due to the real breeding i had complete new terms in the tank they are living in: My plants were growing more rapidly as ever - i didn't make any water changes over the time of 4(!!!) months! But the chemistry of the water was OK anymore ...
But the new terms - an underwater jungle - had a handicap: I could not pick up any eggs! When i realized that my sens were breeding i had to watch that my ornate and weeksi also had realized the event - but much earlier than me! They were waiting directly under the anal fin of the male - waiting for the opening when the eggs went their way ... the sens had shown a smart behaviour: The breeding happened directly over a rich rooted Anubias - but especially the ornate went crazy to get ALL eggs and dashed wildly into these roots causing a fog of all other substances hiding in these roots.
I only saw the eggs for a short time - never any larvae ... the presence of optimized predators didn't allow any survivors.
Greetings
Uwe