Longtime lurker, first time poster.
Tonight, I randomly decided to peek in on my main display tank and found a pleasant surprise. My male green Texas and one of my female blood parrots had spawned. Being a community tank, I'm crossing my fingers, because this was an unexpected surprise and I don't have a divider available or any access to one at this time of night. I'm just hoping that I will get a good batch and they survive the catfish until I can get em setup. I have a spotted Raphael, striped Raphael, 3 corydora and a decent sized albino channel cat in there.
This is the second time that I've had unexpected spawning recently. Awhile back, I went to a LFS and saw a sleek looking amph with big lips, it was grey with bold black bars but labeled as "Red Devil". It had a $7 pricetag on it. So I grabbed it, took it home and put it in my 20gal hospital/quarantine tank. I was curious if it might be an actual REAL red devil, because it had the big lips and streamline look. I've only heard about those characteristics, and not color, I thought it might fade. Anyway, I had this amph oddity in my hospital tank doing his quarantine time, he had been in there for about 2weeks when one of my smaller blood parrots randomly started getting beaten up and ostracized in one of my other tanks. Lacking any other options, I moved her into the hospital/quarantine tank. Almost immediately she began to lay eggs and the "Red Devil" was quick to fertilize them. This was a shock to me, because I had assumed the lil BP was a male, and had no idea what the "RD" was period. Within 3 days I had wigglers, within 2weeks "RD" started severely abusing the poor lil BP. By this time I had another 30gal setup and cycled. So I moved her and left dad in with the babies...probably not the best call, because I caught him a few days later chomping on the fry. So I moved him to a 75 gal. I have probably 20-30 surviving babies from this pairing that I'm growing out. I plan to try and crossthe best of that batch of "RD"xBP with the best of this batch of TexasxBP(if I get lucky).
I know this is a long story, but just wanted to share my experience, and I want to start my own thread to keep updated with my possible Red Texas spawn. I also know everyone is gonna ask for pics, or not even read this because of the lack of pics. It's too late at the current moment to get pics, and I don't want to stress any of the fish out at the moment. I will try to get some good pics of all the parents mentioned in this post and pic of the "RD"xBP babies, if there seems to be enough interest from the forum asking to see them. I'm thinking the Rd dad may be an Amphilophus Zaliosus. Maybe someone can help me get a solid ID after I post. Regardless, Thanks for taking the time to read this. I'm very excited at the possibility for a batch of Red Texas babies.
Tonight, I randomly decided to peek in on my main display tank and found a pleasant surprise. My male green Texas and one of my female blood parrots had spawned. Being a community tank, I'm crossing my fingers, because this was an unexpected surprise and I don't have a divider available or any access to one at this time of night. I'm just hoping that I will get a good batch and they survive the catfish until I can get em setup. I have a spotted Raphael, striped Raphael, 3 corydora and a decent sized albino channel cat in there.
This is the second time that I've had unexpected spawning recently. Awhile back, I went to a LFS and saw a sleek looking amph with big lips, it was grey with bold black bars but labeled as "Red Devil". It had a $7 pricetag on it. So I grabbed it, took it home and put it in my 20gal hospital/quarantine tank. I was curious if it might be an actual REAL red devil, because it had the big lips and streamline look. I've only heard about those characteristics, and not color, I thought it might fade. Anyway, I had this amph oddity in my hospital tank doing his quarantine time, he had been in there for about 2weeks when one of my smaller blood parrots randomly started getting beaten up and ostracized in one of my other tanks. Lacking any other options, I moved her into the hospital/quarantine tank. Almost immediately she began to lay eggs and the "Red Devil" was quick to fertilize them. This was a shock to me, because I had assumed the lil BP was a male, and had no idea what the "RD" was period. Within 3 days I had wigglers, within 2weeks "RD" started severely abusing the poor lil BP. By this time I had another 30gal setup and cycled. So I moved her and left dad in with the babies...probably not the best call, because I caught him a few days later chomping on the fry. So I moved him to a 75 gal. I have probably 20-30 surviving babies from this pairing that I'm growing out. I plan to try and crossthe best of that batch of "RD"xBP with the best of this batch of TexasxBP(if I get lucky).
I know this is a long story, but just wanted to share my experience, and I want to start my own thread to keep updated with my possible Red Texas spawn. I also know everyone is gonna ask for pics, or not even read this because of the lack of pics. It's too late at the current moment to get pics, and I don't want to stress any of the fish out at the moment. I will try to get some good pics of all the parents mentioned in this post and pic of the "RD"xBP babies, if there seems to be enough interest from the forum asking to see them. I'm thinking the Rd dad may be an Amphilophus Zaliosus. Maybe someone can help me get a solid ID after I post. Regardless, Thanks for taking the time to read this. I'm very excited at the possibility for a batch of Red Texas babies.
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