My wife and I have several breeding pair of Red Jewels at the moment with more forming all the time from a group of 10 fish that we picked up locally as babies. So far we only have the one batch of fry and of those only 14 survived to make it to the fry tank. The Syndonis petricola in the same tank picked off most of the free swimmers before I could set everything up. The Jewels are only about 2.5 to 3 inches long and even though one of the pairs adopted the bright red breeding colors I assumed they were still too young. After moving the remaining fry to a fry tank and moving the pair to a spawning tank of thier own (29 gallon) another pair of the Jewels began coloring up and started spawning behavure.
Breeding Red Jewels, Syn P's and true green terrors was always the plan but the Jewels are moving along at a faster pace than we anticipated.
I matched the conditions in the grow out tank in the 29 gallon and the pair seem to be going through the motions...
PH is 7.6 and the temperiture in the tanks is 84 degrees. Along with some flat rocks and many hiding places I have a large amount of floating plants in both of the tanks.
Sorry..no pictures at the moment. I'm getting everything ready for the hollidays and don't have the time to look for the charger for my camera. The 14 fry are doing great by the way on both frozen and live baby brine shrimp. The adults are fed chopped kril, blood worms and frozen brine shrimp.
