New (possible loach) baby mystery!

[janma]

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]

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]

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]

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

[janma]

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

[Graeme Robson]

Superb fix!

[hemi]

awsome
as usual

[Mad Duff]

Great photos Emma

[Emma Turner]

Thank you all.

[Blue]

Lovely fish, Emma. I wouldn't mind spending a lot of cash just to get the Sewellias. Very nice fish indeed.

[loachmom]

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

[Emma Turner]

Thank you's.

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]

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]

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

[Emma Turner]

Thank you.

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

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

Emma