another peacock gudgeon breeding journal

[allaboutfish]

how personable are these fish

 

[captmicha]

Mine are in a small tank (for lack of more room right now) that is heavily planted and has caves and drift wood and rocks to hide in and they hide and dart around a lot. Hopefully some one can give you more info in different set ups.

 

[Ashes2ashes]

6 months old update...

So, I haven't updated here in about 6 months. The last you saw my gudgeons they were just starting to look like mini fish. As they got old enough, I sold off about 80 of them and kept 5 for myself. I thought you guys might want to see what they look like now that they are becoming small adults. A few are showing signs of nuptial humps so I think I have a decent mix of male and female. We shall see. Anyhoo....here ya go...my 6/7 month old gudgeons -

 

[Mgamer20o0]

ill be looking for the 2nd gen in the classifieds in no time....

 

[Ashes2ashes]

lol...the babies are not ready to breed yet..can't even really tell who is male and female yet. I intend to breed them and raise the fry when they are ready though. You should be seeing second generation fish porn by next year sometime.

 

[vwill279]

I love these little fish! Getting some in a few weeks, cant wait! Not sure if I will try to breed them though. Dont think I'll have the setup for it. We shall see though!

 

[fishorama]

That's great you were able to raise so many! Thanks for the update, they look very good.

 

[Ashes2ashes]

Thanks!! I was very pleased with how this project turned out. When I first started I wasn't sure if I would have many survivors at all. Things went much better than I even expected. It wasn't that easy, as breeding projects go. Mostly because you have to pull eggs and keep movement over them and then have a fry tank ready to raise them in until they are big enough to not be food...which is a LONG time for these guys since they take a loooong time to grow, but it's all pretty worth it IMO.