Unbelieveable - 1st spawn
Unbelieveable - 1st spawn
I'd been watching my zebra's eating, as I always do, and I'd noticed that one of my cave dwelling males hadn't been out to eat, he's always out eating without fail. My first thought was to be worried and I wasn't able to see him in the cave cos I couldn't find my torch.
Today I've managed to find the missing torch and after looking in his cave found that he's actually guarding some eggs. I'm gobsmacked and excited at the same time, very strange feeling, cos I was certainly not expecting to have a spawn this quickly. I've not been able to determine whether any are fertilised at the moment and I don't want to stress him by constant torch attacks so I'm just gonna keep an eye on him.
I suspect the spawn took place on Sunday as I was at my sisters wedding all day and the house was empty. I think being undisturbed has certainly helped.
Today I've managed to find the missing torch and after looking in his cave found that he's actually guarding some eggs. I'm gobsmacked and excited at the same time, very strange feeling, cos I was certainly not expecting to have a spawn this quickly. I've not been able to determine whether any are fertilised at the moment and I don't want to stress him by constant torch attacks so I'm just gonna keep an eye on him.
I suspect the spawn took place on Sunday as I was at my sisters wedding all day and the house was empty. I think being undisturbed has certainly helped.
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That's excellent news nesolb, well done.
Two spawns at the same time and in the same tank is a great achievement. If I remember correctly you have 19 zebras in a five foot, I've always suspected that multiple spawns are more likely to take place in a large tank.
Looks like I'll be clearing out the six foot community tonight and dropping some zebras in there instead.
By the way you might want to consider misplacing that torch again.
Congrats!!
Adam
Two spawns at the same time and in the same tank is a great achievement. If I remember correctly you have 19 zebras in a five foot, I've always suspected that multiple spawns are more likely to take place in a large tank.
Looks like I'll be clearing out the six foot community tonight and dropping some zebras in there instead.
By the way you might want to consider misplacing that torch again.
Congrats!!
Adam
Thanks for all the congrats, I'm still in shock today. I've not been doing anything special apart from the regular 15% water changes twice a week cos I have a tendency to over feed them.
NetsuaiAngel - I'm feeding them JMC high protein fish food and catfish sinkers with the occasional freeze dried bloodworm as a treat, the sinkers are more for the corys than zebra's tho.
Adam - Do you think having two spawns may be due to my tank set-up being partitioned? I think this may, in effect, make up two seperate territories.
I've been holding back on checking the caves again as I don't want to upset the males. I'm going to just leave them alone for the moment but just keep checking the movement within the caves to get and idea of what's going on. The torch has been temporarily misplaced again!!!
NetsuaiAngel - I'm feeding them JMC high protein fish food and catfish sinkers with the occasional freeze dried bloodworm as a treat, the sinkers are more for the corys than zebra's tho.
Adam - Do you think having two spawns may be due to my tank set-up being partitioned? I think this may, in effect, make up two seperate territories.
I've been holding back on checking the caves again as I don't want to upset the males. I'm going to just leave them alone for the moment but just keep checking the movement within the caves to get and idea of what's going on. The torch has been temporarily misplaced again!!!
Makes sense really I guess!!
The tank temp is 28C. I've not tried any inducing techniques cos I thought they were too young to spawn. I was expecting them to start showing an interest in about 6 - 12 months from getting them, not within 3 months!!! As we all know it could take years for them to actually spawn which is why I'm so suprised.
The tank temp is 28C. I've not tried any inducing techniques cos I thought they were too young to spawn. I was expecting them to start showing an interest in about 6 - 12 months from getting them, not within 3 months!!! As we all know it could take years for them to actually spawn which is why I'm so suprised.