My friends don’t appreciate catfish, so it’s always good to share my fry news with others.
I currently have 4 batches of Sturisoma fry. I originally thought they were S. Festivum, but Shane on PC has said they are a currently un-described species – and it’s best to call them Long Finned Sturisoma.
The spawns have been down to complete luck. Mr and Mrs Whip spent 2 days hanging out on an internal filter – and I woke up to this.
http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/s ... =Eggs4.jpg
The fry hatch after 7 days. These are 3 hours old and about 9mm.
http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/s ... nt=3rd.jpg
22 days old at 2.3cm. (Excuse poo and food!)
http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/s ... nt=2nd.jpg
40 day old fry at 5.5cm. (More poo and food.)
http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/s ... nt=1st.jpg
And at 53 days, at about 6.5cm I released batch one into a grow on tank, as I needed the breeding trap for spawn 4!
http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/s ... reedom.jpg
These guys are now 56 days old and I’m very relieved to see them moving around the tank to look for food. They were spawned and hatched in a community tank, and many fry were eaten by my Rainbows. I used siphon tubing to get any I could find into floating breeding traps. I have been lucky to have suffered no loses with the fry I managed to get into the traps. I currently have 100 fry from 4 spawns.
I put my success down to a powerful spray bar and tinned green beans.
And shed loads of beginners luck!
Thanks for reading.
Sturisoma fry.
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Thanks
Andy
I’ll give you a shout when they are big enough to be re-homed.
Rich,
That question only got recently answered. When I got them they were a bit too young to be ID’d correctly – and I was given 3 separate ID’s for them.
Sturisomatichthys Leightoni. Sturisoma Festivum. Or Sturisoma Aureum.
Now they are adults, the experts on Planet Catfish have said they are neither – and that this species is yet to be described and given a name. Plecofanatics people agreed with the Planet Catfish people.
Here is the most recent thread about it.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... hp?t=18758
So until the scientific bods give them a name – I have been told to call them Long Finned Sturisoma sp.
Andy
I’ll give you a shout when they are big enough to be re-homed.
Rich,
That question only got recently answered. When I got them they were a bit too young to be ID’d correctly – and I was given 3 separate ID’s for them.
Sturisomatichthys Leightoni. Sturisoma Festivum. Or Sturisoma Aureum.
Now they are adults, the experts on Planet Catfish have said they are neither – and that this species is yet to be described and given a name. Plecofanatics people agreed with the Planet Catfish people.
Here is the most recent thread about it.
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... hp?t=18758
So until the scientific bods give them a name – I have been told to call them Long Finned Sturisoma sp.