L046 Breeding report stage #2
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:33 pm
I thought I would do an up-date on my breeding program as I have discovered some new findings that may help to improve your chances at breeding the L046 Zebra. As in my last report my 100 gallon was producing offspring on a on going bases and that still continues.
I also mentioned I started up a second group in a 110 gallon tank, this is where it gets interesting. My second tank was set up copying my first, so I thought. The new group in the 110 started to breed and I got eggs and then babies , but shortly after no signs of the babies It was like they disapeared in thin air, not even any bodies. After a month or two more babies same results.
After closer examination I realised I had a UV unit hooked up to the 110 system that I had used prior for other tropicals and on my first set-up I never used UV. I unpluged the UV to see if this was effecting my out come.
A month and half later another batch of eggs, then babies, and yep you guessed it "they lived"
My conclusion is the UV system made the tank to clean for natural micro cultures to which the babies can feed on in their early stages, and the livebearing snails i have in that tank by the hundreds cleaned up the dead babies.
So if you have a UV on you system and are not having luck raising young L046 you might want to read this post over again.
Good luck
Doug White
I also mentioned I started up a second group in a 110 gallon tank, this is where it gets interesting. My second tank was set up copying my first, so I thought. The new group in the 110 started to breed and I got eggs and then babies , but shortly after no signs of the babies It was like they disapeared in thin air, not even any bodies. After a month or two more babies same results.
After closer examination I realised I had a UV unit hooked up to the 110 system that I had used prior for other tropicals and on my first set-up I never used UV. I unpluged the UV to see if this was effecting my out come.
A month and half later another batch of eggs, then babies, and yep you guessed it "they lived"
My conclusion is the UV system made the tank to clean for natural micro cultures to which the babies can feed on in their early stages, and the livebearing snails i have in that tank by the hundreds cleaned up the dead babies.
So if you have a UV on you system and are not having luck raising young L046 you might want to read this post over again.
Good luck
Doug White