Guianacara Geayi Laid Eggs (short vid)

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Sounds good. Man, this female has some awesome breeding colors. Would really like to take some video but I placed a piece of slate over the flowerpot that she laid her eggs in. She rarely ventures out.

How many times did it take yours to get it right? The first spawn between these two and the eggs were gone that same day. Going on day two this time and most of the eggs are still present. :)
 
It took one of my pairs MANY times go get it right, and they only got it right once. The other pairs got it right the first time.

Here is a video of the pair that only got it once. I grew some of the fry to adults and they spawned a few times. Run out of room so I passed them on to Ed.
[video=youtube;zntl1ABIjzI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zntl1ABIjzI[/video]
 
Wow, those are beautiful! Wondering now if mine are actual Geayi because there appears to be some noticeable differences.

[video=youtube;2nXyMKL1d8g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXyMKL1d8g[/video]

There are a few eggs missing each time I go to check up on them. Probably a little over 100 left right now.
 
Words said:
Wow, those are beautiful! Wondering now if mine are actual Geayi because there appears to be some noticeable differences.
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Neither are actual G. geayi, since they don't have the black lappets (black first dorsal spines). Actual G. geayi are extremely rare in the hobby, but almost all Guianacara are labeled such in the hobby.
 
darth pike said:
Neither are actual G. geayi, since they don't have the black lappets (black first dorsal spines). Actual G. geayi are extremely rare in the hobby, but almost all Guianacara are labeled such in the hobby.
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Mine were definitely not G. geayi. I posted on CRC but still couldn't get a good ID. One of those things...

According to the López-Fernández et al. paper, the black lappets are lost in adult G. geayi:

In Guianacara stergiosi the midlateral bar progressively fades into a midlateral spot in all
but small juvenile specimens, distinguishing the species from G. geayi, which generally
has a complete midlateral bar; in G. geayi the midlateral bar can be reduced to
a midlateral spot in large specimens, in which case the black coloration of the anterior
dorsal-fin lappets is lost, whereas it is maintained in G. stergiosi at all sizes.

López-Fernández et al., Copeia, 2006(3), pp. 384–395
 
Yeah, I remember trying to figure out where your second group of them were Peathenster ... no one knew for sure.
 
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