Peacock Bass Spawning

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Congrats! Any tubes or eggs yet?

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thanks mate, yea the female is starting to drop her spawning tube. i have uploaded another video to youtube of them doing a bit of shaking and the sorts. removed the barramundi from the tank this arvo as well. they are starting to bully him around a fair bit. tank is a bit cloudy as they have moved a heap of sand around too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w__MxUk0t1U&feature=youtu.be

cheers
 
That’s awesome news!! And thank you for mentioning me in your thread. Funny because one of my breeding pairs spawned over the weekend and laid around 3000 eggs yesterday too!! But getting them to spawn is only half the challenge, getting those eggs to hatch and reach free swimming fry is what I’ve found to be the tough part. My recommendations if you want to maximize successes of this spawn would be to have a 20gal tank ready to place the eggs in after they spawn. What I usually do is fill this tank half with water from the parents tank and the rest with clean treated water. Next you’ll want to add the applicable amount of Methylene blue to the water to avoid the eggs from growing fungus on them before hatching to maximize your hatch amount. For filtration and water flow over the eggs I use two large air pumps each with dual air outputs. One of the air outputs goes to a sponge filter and the other three go to three long/large air stones I place around the eggs to maintain a nice water flow over the eggs. Now, what you need to have happen is for your female to lay her eggs on an object that can be taken out and placed (fully submerged) into your egg tank. I will usually watch and wait several hours after the female appears to be finished laying her eggs, you do not want to pull the eggs before you know the male is done fertilizing them and he will make several passes. Once the male and female are completely done and it’s been several hours since the male has appeared to fertilize (usually both the male and females tubes will be retracted and no longer visible, at least in my cases) , that is the time you pull the eggs and get them into your separate prepared egg tank. Three days later…baby cichla.. It’s really cool to experience this and I’m happy it seems to be working out for you. If you have any questions at all PM me, I can shoot you my number as well to help out anyway I can.
 
Also, I forgot to mention I use that same exact pot plate, same size and everything that’s in your tank. I found that if you flip it over flat side up, it works better. Reason for this IME is if you leave it the way it is now and your female begins to lay her eggs in the dish, during the duration of her laying the eggs and the male coming in and fertilizing the parents begin to start rubbing the already laid eggs off and detaching them. The eggs start to float around with each pass now and end up all over the bottom of your tank unattached and now scattered all over making it harder for the parents to control and maintain a nice water flow over the eggs leading to fungus and un-hatched eggs. Like I said IME if you simply flip that dish over she’ll laid her eggs on that flat surface (the bottom) and the parents won’t rub off the eggs trying to “dip” down into that dish to lay/ fertilize. This way most the eggs stay attached to the surface of the plate, keeping them all together which also makes it easier for the male to fertilize and in the end for you to pull out and put into a egg tank.
 
Congrats on the eggs bro. To bad all Aussie have monos.
 
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