Etroplus canarensis / Canara Pearlspot Have Spawned

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Actually, it doesn't look like ~20 fungused ... more like 7 or 8. That's surprising since there is a strong current in the tank and it is a young male.
Here are the newly hatched fry.

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notho2000 said:
Thank you Karthik. Actually, prior to obtaining the canarensis, I was researching them on-line and came across this article. It was very thoughtful of you to send me the link.
Jim
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Anytime... :) Good luck with the fry.

Cheers,

Karthik
 
Thanks. A great site for Indian native fish.
 
On Thursday, April 10th, 2014, a pair of my 'canarensis' spawned. I pulled the eggs to hatch them artificially and they began to hatch about 60 hours later, on Sunday, April 13th. They have been absorbing their yolksacs for the last week, all the while wiggling away and scurrying around the bottom. It's now one week later, Sunday April 20th, and they are just now beginning to free swim. I'll wait until tomorrow morning before I give them their first feeding of newly hatched baby brine shrimp. Here they are, starting to school and "swim like a fish".
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The fry have just finished their first meal of newly hatched baby brine shrimp. They have settled down and are now calmly schooling.
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Etroplus canarensis Pair's Second Spawn in Ten Days

One pair of Canara Pearlspots that laid eggs a week ago have done it again. Their first spawn is now free swimming. Here the female is nervously tending to the new clutch of eggs while the male is doing peripheral guard duty. There are eight other canarensis in the tank ( 60" x 18"x 12"), two other pairs of which have also spawned. I didn't save these and they were eventually eaten. There are two 11/2" T. wesseli in there plus a 2" female H. bartoni which will be a threat to the spawn.
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The eggs, 24 hours post spawning.
 
Nice Jim!!! Usually pairs won't have viable spawns but every 4-6 weeks. What is important to document is the fact that these fish are only 16 months old. Most experts consider etropline sexual maturity to occur around 30-32 months. Mine spawned yesterday- a 10 year old fish with a 1.5 year old newby!!
 
Thanks, Jose. Seems like we're discovering new things about them. Never a dull moment with these little characters. Here are the fry as of yesterday, April 24 and today, April 25. Now, they're strangely clustered on top of a small power head that is not running. Why there? I know they love to school but they're taking 'togetherness' to a whole new level ... and at the same time making me a bit nervous.:confused:
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