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jumpingtadpoles
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Post by jumpingtadpoles » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:19 am

Hello :)

My name is April. I think i know a few faces around here. I have used this site for referencing a lot of information, actually, but since the only loach I personally own at this moment is two dojo's loaches, I have never felt a need to post...

however, i suddenly feel like some of you here may be able to tell me, being the loach lovers you are... I am wondering if anyone else, other then that article about them being spawned in a store sump, has bred them. I have a baby forlicking in my tank, right now.... bugger grew almost half an inch in two days.

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Post by Rocco » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:12 am

I have a yoyo that still had its yoyo markings one night but the next night it was starting to reticulate.

That yoyo started off as a 2" lil guy with me and just exploded to 4" in a matter of months.

Feed that little guy a lot and keep changing the water and before you know it, BOOM! hes big.
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Post by mamaschild » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:31 am

APE :):) Glad you came over. Emma might be able to give you some more info. She is the proud owner of the ones in the post I linked you too :D
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Post by sophie » Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:42 am

ooooh.
I have no advice, but I'm very jealous!
well done!
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Post by loachmom » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:00 pm

Jealous here, too.
Great job, and thanks for sharing your good news. :)
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Post by jumpingtadpoles » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:06 pm

Hello mama!
:-*

you really are everywhere, hehe.

I didn't actually mean for this to happen. All of it was honestly sort of a mistake, other them a enormous colder water change...

But it was really easy. Has anyone tried to do this before?
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Post by Emma Turner » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:06 pm

Hi April,

Welcome to Loaches Online, and congratulations! 8)

Apart from the breeding I documented here from Maidenhead Aquatics @ Lincoln, I know only of one other successful spawning and that was by renowned fish breeder Sallie Boggs who is known to have bred quite a few loach species.

We think our spawning happened soon after the fish arrived with us from a shipment from Singapore. We acclimatise very gradually and carefully, but these fish went into tanks with likely a much higher flow rate than their holding pools over in Singapore, and the fish systems at the shop receive at least 2 large water changes daily. I think a slightly cooler change coupled with the higher flow rate triggered these mature specimens into spawning soon after arrival.

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Post by shari2 » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:29 pm

Waterchange, yup. And the java moss. Java moss is a fish aphrodisiac - or at least it's like a nursery. :P

Hi April! 8)
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Post by Diana » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:36 pm

Java moss is a fish aphrodisiac - or at least it's like a nursery.
Do the fish say, "Look, honey, I just redid the kids' room, now lets make some kids to round it out" ? :lol:
38 tanks, 2 ponds over 4000 liters of water to keep clean and fresh.

Happy fish keeping!
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So cool

Post by starsplitter7 » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:50 pm

Are there any more? :)
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Post by Whitey_MacLeod » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:33 am

Congratulations 8) Thanks for sharing- I'd love to see more pictures if you have any.
Fast and bulbous!
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Post by tattooedgemini » Sun Dec 02, 2007 2:00 pm

i hope you find some more hiding in there
i am super mom!...to the kids and the fish...lol
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Post by jumpingtadpoles » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:45 pm

well I am pretty sure that there are no others in there. it's fine with me, 3 dojos in a 75g is plenty. little jesus is growing so fast. he is hitting the 2 inch mark already. he is becoming more active. his personality seems more like his mom then his dad, but time will tell :)

here is a very dark video I took of him yesterday, with my digital camera's on board video camera. it's the first video i have made with it, actually :wink:

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