I got eggs!

[Apistodan77]

So I have had my male for a few months now I hand selected him from a LFS up by my sisters house and drove an hour and a half and couldn’t be more happy with him, he’s absolutely gorgeous, AG Cocatoides super red, I’ve been getting the tank ready for them for about six months (planted and had a move to a new house in April set me back) but I was waiting and looking for females, they aren’t easy to find just single females, well I found a store to order me some in Portland, about a 2 hour drive for me and again they are awesome, they gave me a great price so I went down to get them. Well I brought them homeboy last week and immediately my male paired up with the bigger female and last night I discovered eggs under a log in a little cave. It took less than a week.

As for my setup: I have a 20L planted tank with some random plants, I believe they’re all Amazonia so they would be natural for the fish, i put a couple lava rocks in the center which created a couple caves and a log in the corner and a small clay pot in the other corner.

Filtration: small sponge, with a homemade PVC Canister filter with course foam, lava rock and some screen bags.

Substrate: organic soil, white fine sand, and so fluval mixed in.

 

[yukondog]

Congratulations on the fry, mine wont be in till next week.

 

[Apistodan77]

Congratulations on the fry, mine wont be in till next week.

Thank you! Very exciting as this is my first time ever trying and was successful! They are pink so I’m assuming he did his job in fertilizing

 

[yukondog]

Sounds like he did, good luck. Don't be surprised if they eat the first couple of batches sometimes it takes a couple of times.

 

[Apistodan77]

Sounds like he did, good luck. Don't be surprised if they eat the first couple of batches sometimes it takes a couple of times.

Yeah I know I’m keeping a close eye on them. Just ordered some brine shrimp eggs too

 

[Apistodan77]

Well unfortunately the eggs got fungus, she moved caves from under the log to under a lava rock maybe less slime and easier to clean? More water flow? Idk but now the smaller female. Seems to be carrying

 

[yukondog]

Don't give up on them, if its there first batch, there may be a learning curve for them.