New (possible loach) baby mystery!

janma · Post by **janma** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:10 pm

Beautiful fish. You wouldn't have any pics of Sewellia eggs? Reason I'm asking is if someday I would be so lucky to get my own to spawn I could then spot the eggs and collect them before the Rineloricaria sp. decide to eat them.

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:56 pm

Hi Janne,

Unfortunately, I have never seen the eggs. The first I know of a spawning is when these beautiful tiny fry appear in the tank or external filter.

Emma

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:26 pm

Update 20-04-2007:

I carried out a large, cool water change this afternoon, so we'll have to see if that instigates some more 'action' in the river tank. There is a lot of shoving currently going on around the back amongst the large Spotties, and the little ones have been out and about foraging on the sand with the S. lineolata youngsters. They always seem to do this after a water change, and although I thought I siphoned all the muck off the bottom very thoroughly, they sit there fluttering their fins and unearth stuff I've missed!

Here is the oldest of the two, although their sizes are now quite similar and it is hard to tell them apart unless you can see them both at the same time:

And here he/she is sitting in the gap where I originally found him/her when just a few mm long!

This is the one from the 2nd spawning:

And a couple of underside pics of the larger one taken back on the 5th April. I didn't post them at the time as I was unable to capture any side-on pics that day:

Emma

Jim Powers · Post by **Jim Powers** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:29 pm

I was just thinking the other day how I could use another "fix" of baby sewellia pics.

janma · Post by **janma** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:32 pm

I need some egg pics

but these do fine until then

very cute.

Graeme Robson · Post by **Graeme Robson** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:00 pm

Superb fix!

hemi · Post by **hemi** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:24 pm

awsome
as usual

Mad Duff · Post by **Mad Duff** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:19 pm

Great photos Emma

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:00 pm

Thank you all.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:28 pm

Lovely fish, Emma.

I wouldn't mind spending a lot of cash just to get the Sewellias.

Very nice fish indeed.

loachmom · Post by **loachmom** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:37 pm

Very nice!! I enjoyed looking at the babies, the sand, the rocks, and roots, and driftwood....

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:26 am

Thank you's.

janma wrote:I need some egg pics but these do fine until then very cute.

Janne, the eggs must be miniscule if I've found fry in the filter. They would have to fit through the tiny slots at the bottom of my Eheim intake tube.

Emma

helen nightingale · Post by **helen nightingale** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:20 pm

the other day Tom noticed a tubercule on one of my yoyos, and was worried he was ill as he hadnt noticed them before. one of those pics in the batch before last showed tubercules so clearly, i will have to show him. quite aside from the hilly baby story, that was a great beginner education shot

thanks

CrazyLoach · Post by **CrazyLoach** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:36 pm

Awesome pics Emma, what kind of camera do you use?

Emma Turner · Post by **Emma Turner** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:22 am

Thank you.

CrazyLoach - The camera I use is a Nikon Coolpix 8700.

Hels - do you mean the nasal nares? (fishy 'nostrils')

Emma

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