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E.kalotaenia fry

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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by atmichaels » Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:08 pm

Awesome! Keep it up. And thanks for the video.
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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by mikev » Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:17 pm

TY!

BTW, the fish is *very similar* to panda loach. They are no longer in the same genus, but they used to be.... until this fry showed up I've been actually thinking about putting them together, not the time now, and if the fry makes it, no space for doing it.

As for keeping it up: we'll see... the fry is still very small (6-7mm) and hopefully they would not become food.

One still photo (out of 100+ totally blurry ones so far...hard to focus):

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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by atmichaels » Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:12 pm

I do recall reading a paper on the two species when I first got mine. IME, 1 out of 100 photos is about right. That's a very nice shot!
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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by mikev » Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:14 am

Thanks... very difficult to focus on a small object in gravel.. the camera will get *something* in focus all right, but it is likely not going to be the fry.

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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by Jim Powers » Sat Jul 11, 2015 11:53 am

Nice! :D
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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by mikev » Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:59 pm

TY! At the latest observations some are crossing the 1cm mark (definitely fast growing species, 2cm expected at 40 days), and more than this tank can handle :(

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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by Jim Powers » Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:42 pm

The erromyzon that I had several years ago, used to dig up the tank from time to time, but I never did get fry. I'm not sure if they were attempting to spawn or just looking for food. I kind of think it was the latter.
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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by mikev » Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:48 pm

Digging (and behavior in general) seems dependent on the species. E.kalotaenia is quite different from E.sp.red spot and you had I think E.sinensis which may be yet different.

With E.kalotaenia (whom I watched quite a lot) most digging is done by males, and with a very specific purpose of checking/preparing spawning places. This type of digging is done near stones. But both sexes may also dig in the open and that seems to be a search for food. Incidentally, I have not seen any of this "food search" digging in the last two weeks... probably related to me feeding tank three times per day now.

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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by mikev » Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:36 am

PS. A bit curious how large your erromyzons were.

I noticed fishbase sizes... well, of course their data is always suspect but it tends to underestimate the size of fish (size comes from some specimen that was measured). Kalotaenia *females* are a bit larger than 4.8cm, for example. But the value for sinensis is so large that no way sp.red spot is sinensis.

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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by NancyD » Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:22 am

Nice, Mike! Such a pretty fry shot! Congrats!
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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by mikev » Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:57 pm

Thanks, Nancy,

I'll try for a better photo tonight... should be easier now with more (and larger) fry out.

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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by mikev » Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:27 pm

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The fish behind is a male in the standard sexual expectation position... the fry is currently about 1/3 of his size.

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Re: E.kalotaenia fry

Post by atmichaels » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:57 pm

How are the fry doing?
Currently keeping: gastromyzon spp., hypergastromyzon humilis, pseudogastromyzon sp., sewellia spp., ambastaia sidthimunki, homaloptera spp., serpenticobitis octozona, Yaoshania pachychilus. As well as various catfish, loricarids, livebearers and tetras.

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