Thanks for the friendly responses
How much time elapsed between each of the spawns?
Adam, I think about 2 months. but I have to look it up to be more precisely.
is anybody keeping score of how many new ones we've
McEve, I use this thread to post my updates:
http://www.zebrapleco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=263
Mabye this one could be made a "Sticky" so it is always on top.
Well done! How long have you had the zebras, what sort on conditions did they breed in?
Shell, I have my zebra's for almost 3 years now, they only started spawning last summer. In fact I don't do much effort to create special conditions. I take care well of the tank, but I don't practice cold water floods, I don't have extra powerheads and I don't try to change the water's chemistry. I just keep the temperature at 29 degr. celsius and I provide a simple PVC tube as a breeding cave (an advantage is that I can easily remove the fry).
My simple philosophy is that you just need patience and a little luck. I do think that it helps to leave them alone as much as possible.
My first breeding happened during my holiday (which gave the zebra's the oportunity to have a holiday from me

). It happened by the way in a rather overstocked tank. Presently they have the tank practically for their own, sharing it just with a school of Rasbora hengeli and Amano shrimps.
In fact I had to rescue this last breeding in an early stage. One day I saw the male out of his breeding cave on a rather unusual moment (not during feeding time) when I looked better I saw that a bundle of eggs were outside the tube, this situation was appearently stressing the male.
I picked up the tube with te male inside it and dropped the bundle of eggs inside the tube. From then on the male stayed inside the tube, appearently satisfied being rejoined with the lost eggs