Banded Kuhli Spawning Activity Noted; Advice needed.

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Today I noted spawning activity between two of my three Kuhlis.
How long will it be til I have fry?
If I am fortunate, I will have some Kuhli fry.

If so, What should I have on hand to feed these small fry?

Thanks for lookin'

Best wishes,
Wes
 
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All of the pangio breeding that I've read of is pretty much accidental. There's a description of P. oblonga breeding at loaches.com. It'll mainly depend on other fish not eating them. Good luck! My pangio females are often gravid but no fry.
 
I have no other fish in the tank at the moment. Except the 2 Ghost shrimp and the 15 RCS.

I am not sure if those will eat the eggs or not.

But I Sure wish I had a way to video record what I was seeing from time to time, because it sure looks very much like spawing activity of other fishes.

Here's my best written description:

The gavid female lays still whie the the male (Assumption) wiggles/vibrates his body very near (about 3 mm) where the female is laying or is laying eggs (because of the dense plant growth in that location the light does not penetrate well enough to tell whether there are eggs there.

This behavoir was observed for about three minutes in succession.

Thanks for lookin'.

Best wishes,
Wes
 
What kind of filter are you using? Loach eggs are pretty tiny & apt to get sucked up by HOB or canister filters so check them carefully for teeny tiny fry. They feed on the "crud" (microorganisms) in the plants & substrate from what I understand. Lots of hiding places are good.
 
The filter is probably your biggest enemy if they do spawn.

Make sure whatever slits/intake there is that is is covered in a foam filter (aquaclear filters can be cut and fit over the intake of a powerfilter if that's what you have).

Good luck, and keep us posted.

Eric
 
Jayhawk said:
The filter is probably your biggest enemy if they do spawn.

Make sure whatever slits/intake there is that is is covered in a foam filter (aquaclear filters can be cut and fit over the intake of a powerfilter if that's what you have).

Good luck, and keep us posted.

Eric
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fishorama said:
What kind of filter are you using? Loach eggs are pretty tiny & apt to get sucked up by HOB or canister filters so check them carefully for teeny tiny fry. They feed on the "crud" (microorganisms) in the plants & substrate from what I understand. Lots of hiding places are good.
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:bling: I have a sponge filter on the intake because I keep shrimp as well in the same tank.

The flow is generally slower than your average tank even though I have a canister filter that is rated at 100 gallons per hour, I have a valve on it to slow it down.

The place the kuhlis are using for their "activities" is densly planted. The tank overall is moderately planted and over the next week or so I had planned to add more plants.

I have had these Kuhlis for about four months now in a 10 gallon tank and transferred them to this 20 long on the 13th tranferring the water, filter, plants substrate and all to this tank and adding additional substratewith additional plants.

A new Canister Filter was set-up on the tank on the 20th with tha spoinge on the intake because of the shrinp I keep.

So there you have the general make-up of my tank.

Keep the advice comin' about keepin' the pending kuhli fry ... :feedback: :thm:


Thanks for lookin'

Best wishes,
Wes
 
The established sponge is great...there is often microfauna on them for the fry to eat.

Sounds like you have an ideal kuhli spawning ground, but the rest is up to them!
 
fishorama said:
Here's the LOL link http://www.loaches.com/articles/breeding-experience-with-pangio-oblonga
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Thanks for that. it was a good read.

I wish there were more information as to what the fry might eat.

BTW: On a side note. One of my female shrimps has berried and we soon will have some shrimp fry (no Pun). This shrimp was in a batch of RCS that I bought a couple of weeks ago. Because of the color I thought it to be a male. Have yet to learn to tell the difference of the sexing of shrimp. So now I am not sure if this particular shrimp is even an RCS or just your run-of-the-mill ghost shrimp.

Anyway ...

Thanks for lookin'

Best wishes,
Wes
 
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