opps sorry you get 500 fry per fish but they could lay 1000 eggs, it has been a long time since I have bred them and its been a while since I have logged in it's the long week end and I have time to do so. happy 4th of july

A single female can lay about 500 eggs, but over the years that I have produced them about half of the eggs would hatch this is not a very accurate count, out of two females I would get an average of 500 fry even though the tank looks like most of the eggs have turned white. Petricola eggs http://im...

I have a similar situation I bred a long fin male with a short fin female both albinos and got brown fry, not sure if i got long fin and short fin babies because all the fry are mixed in the baby tank, when breeding the short fin female with its siblings they produced all albino, the same with the l...

Karl, what you need is more catfish at least six of this schooling fish is the bare minimum more the better and you need to add some top swimming fish if you are fortunate enough to have this much fish then you wont have the problem you are facing right now. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/th...

the eggs should look like this, the black line is a piece of hair.

the fish are heterozygous, both parents carry the albino gene but normally you would get 25% albino and the rest of them should be brown in color

you can breed them just using one pair but I have 2 that breeds regularly newly laid eggs the black line across the eggs is a piece of hair http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/thefishdaddy/hairandpetricolaeggs.jpg 5 days old compair it to the size of the daphnia this is the stage where you start ...

pure Spirulina Powder, Gerber Baby food Carrots or green peas or green water from a fish tank add some crushed corals in the tank so the Ph wont crash

you can find info here: http://www.oscarent.com/productspages/hatchnfeeder.html http://www.mops.ca/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/skus/fe/FETO-1198.asp?E+scstore the inherent problem with this contraption is that when you drop the water in your fish tank the salt will come out and sometimes the suction cup wo...

I never did lie to my girlfirend about the cost of fish she know how much they where I always bring her with me when I want to get some fish, so when we got merried I promised her that I would not spend my own $$$ to buy fish and I would use the fish I breed to buy fish stuff, I always make it a poi...

I can't substantiate or prove it, but a friend of mine was able to get some S. multipunctatus fry from a Cyprichromis leptosoma this is the first time I've heard of this, his tank is only 12 inches high and there where Astatotilapia latifasciata (zebra obliquidens) in the tank as I have suggested th...

SDF, I am going there, this time I will try not to be late, this is one of the reasons why I try not to advertise Club meetings even though I belong to several clubs local, national and even international fish clubs. Last weekend alone in Sacramento's "Findig" even though I missed lee Finl...

cichlidboy, you need to tone down the attitude, You asked a question and it was answered in a polite and correct manner, I do keep and breed Julidochromis transcriptus and they can and will be able to kill a very Timid zebra pleco in a 20 gallon tank, the Julie do breed in a shell if there is no oth...

When you guys are talking about the size of a Zebra Pleco or any other pleco in particular, are we talking about the length of the fish from the tip of the snout all the way to the tip of the caudal fin, or is this from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail, coz a 1 inch fish is very small if...

most of the fish that i'm going to send you are still small and they tend to stay a lot smaller than your channel cat, If you don't mind bringing your channel cat to the place you got it and mybe trade for more fish food or store credit, one thing you can do first is keep the fish for a week or so u...

perrush, You can just glue another piece of that under layer (the base of the breeding cave you made) facing each other, you dont have to cut an opening on the other piece coz bristlenose pleco likes tight spaces and small entrance, as long as the male and female can fit in the entrance it should be...

Eddie, If you can have the patience to cycle your tank in the next three weeks, with the unmodified tap water from your faucet, and maybe catch up on some reading about tank filtration, E-mail me thefishdaddy@yahoo.com or PM me and I will send you free fish just pay for half off the shipping cost......

It depends on what are you trying to accomplish, if breeding the Syno. multipunctatus is your priority then adding the cichlids first would have a better success this way the cichlids feel at home and breed a few times then add the catfish, but then if your host fish are Tanganyikan cichlids then yo...

another caption that I found in the Jan. 2001 issue of TFH mag. mentioning iron with S. angelicus in page 12 entitled "Notes and Observations on the Genus Synodontis" by Frank Caputo aka DarkAngel Synodontis angelicus still has not been bred in captivity. It is thought that perhaps there i...

this link I found looks a lot like the fish you have catfishgurl and it is even called dwarf giraffe catfish (Parauchenoglanis macrostoma or Anaspidoglanis macrostoma)
http://www.planetcatfish.com/jpg/clarot ... stoma1.jpg

nitrification uses a lot of O2, reducing the amount of food given to your fish will also reduce the need to produce more O2 due to the low amount of ammonia produced buy your fish....

here is another literature from a march 1991 FAMA article page 155, entitled "CATFISH FOR RIFT VALLEY CICHLID AQUARIA" by Bill Volkart S. angelicus catfish make a habit of burying themselves in the substrate and swimming and feeding in an upside-down position but in nature they have one mo...

The smaller the bubbles the more surface area it will have per CFM produced by your airpump, and the slower it will rise to the top of the tank. This will improve the contact time between air in the bubble and water that surrounds it.... It is the same principle as CO2 diffusers for planted tank.......

me too.

If this is a breeding tank you are trying to set up, why not go for a bare bottom tank much cheaper and easy to mentain.... or you can just paint the outside bottom portion of your tank the color of the gravel you intend to buy....