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I collected these many months back and have had 7 in one of my breeding tanks with no sign of them doing anything other than growing.
I cleaned the tank last night and noticed that a pair seemed to have formed and a couple of pits had been dug in the sand at the front of the tank beside the clay pot that they were taking an interest in. Looking again a few minutes later, among the debris now swirling round the tank I saw a few fry in the pit and the pair defending the territory.
I think I may have stumbled upon the spawning trigger, live daphnia daily (I currently have 3 poly boxes in the garden with daphnia cultures that provide a continous supply of daphnia for a good few tanks of dwarves!!).
Now there are 5 other adults in the tank with this pair, I'm hoping these others won't predate on the fry as there is no chance of removing the others from the tank.
But its moments like this that make it all worth while.
Todays pics:
Male didn't want his picture taken!!
Andrew
I cleaned the tank last night and noticed that a pair seemed to have formed and a couple of pits had been dug in the sand at the front of the tank beside the clay pot that they were taking an interest in. Looking again a few minutes later, among the debris now swirling round the tank I saw a few fry in the pit and the pair defending the territory.
I think I may have stumbled upon the spawning trigger, live daphnia daily (I currently have 3 poly boxes in the garden with daphnia cultures that provide a continous supply of daphnia for a good few tanks of dwarves!!).
Now there are 5 other adults in the tank with this pair, I'm hoping these others won't predate on the fry as there is no chance of removing the others from the tank.
But its moments like this that make it all worth while.
Todays pics:
Male didn't want his picture taken!!
Andrew