anchar Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 Hi all, I have recently executed a water change and my clowns are behaving strangely. I am sure that I have 7 males and 1 female; the female has her ovipositor starting to protrude. I know that breeding these guys in home aquaria is difficult/unlikely, however I am sure that there is some pre-spawning activity happening atm. Does anyone else have any experiences that they can share? I presume that they are "orgy" spawners...at a ratio of 1:7 she's in for a rough night Are they egg scatterers? or do they "place" their eggs like Corydoras spp.? Am I likely to see eggs? There are other tank mates including a gold spot pleco, a gibbie, 2 albino plecos, gold and green severums, chocolates, convicts, firemouths and braziliensis. However they are all staying well clear of the clowns that are acting very "frisky" atm. The tank is a 5 x 2 x 2, garnet/lime sand substrate, petrified wood, lots of hollow logs and other driftwood and quite a bit of tannin. merjo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burek Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 hi merjo how big are the clowns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 Clowns ????? Loaches, plecos, ???? Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchar Posted September 19, 2004 Author Share Posted September 19, 2004 Sorry Alan...loaches. They are about 6 inches Daniel. merjo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mianos Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 If they did breed at that small size you would have the second reported spawning in an aquarium ever. Let's hope so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchar Posted September 20, 2004 Author Share Posted September 20, 2004 Yes I do realise how very, very unlikely this is.....interesting to watch them just the same... I haven't seen any further progress today so I guess it was false hope merjo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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