Second Spawn in exactly one month!

[tomcptse]

Exactly one month today, my pair of cacatuoides had their second spawn already!
Their first spawn yielded about 60 fish, and they are about 1cm long now, and now the pair has their second spawn already.
Is this normal for cacatuoides to spawn every month? or i'm just given their the perfect environment which lead them to spawn again??
Will post some photos later

 

[Mike Wise]

You are doing very well with your fish. If the fry are removed immediately, females can spawn every 10 days to 2 weeks. I don't like doing this because is wears out the females. I prefer to let my females have 2 or 3 spawns with about a month of brood care between spawns and then a rest for several months. Mine live much longer that way. I obviously am not in the hobby to produce large quantities of fish.

 

[thegnu]

I had the same thing happen

[/IMG]tomcptse,
mine hatched their second spawn (a much larger spawn than the first) and when those hatched i took the female out as she was attacking her first offspring. I had already took out the male before their second spawn had hatched.
In the picture i had already sold a lot of fish, most of these were from the second spawn that were a little behind. Altogether i had 170 Cacatuoides in that 3'X1'X1' tank!

 

[tleehm]

Hi Tom,

Well done, but there's some not so good news about cacs in general.

One thing you need to be aware of is there has been shocking quality with the cacs in Oz. If you've bought the pair from the LFS, there's a high possibility they're locally bred and may carry some form of deformities. Even some of the cheap Asian import can be equally bad.

Am not saying your one has - but better be safe than too late when you discover the problem after their siblings grown. Just one way to avoid the situation from getting worst (if it's not bad enough already).

A quick check with where you sourced the fish from would help.

Cheers,
Thomas.

 

[tomcptse]

Hi Tom,
One thing you need to be aware of is there has been shocking quality with the cacs in Oz. If you've bought the pair from the LFS, there's a high possibility they're locally bred and may carry some form of deformities.QUOTE]

G'day Thomas
What kind of deformities are you refering to? My pair seems to be good and came from a good breeder. Also, all of their first spawns developing nicely without any sign of abnormality.:wink:
Thanks for your friendly warning anyway
Tom

 

[tleehm]

Deformities I've seen include odd size eye, mouth warp, kink in the spine, etc.

The fish looks horrible, can't really think of any reason why people releases such fish into the market.

It's always good to know where your fish came from.

Cheers,
Thomas.

 

[Mike Wise]

It is also good to have a 'culling fish' to get rid of any defective fish from a spawn. That is why I keep Muggsy, a 14"/35 cm long electric catfish. It usually eats pellets and freeze-dried foods, but when a defective juvenile appears ... well.

 

[thegnu]

Out of 170 cacatuoides fry i grew on i had 14 that didn't grow well. 12 had bent spines 1 was born with a poorly swimbladder and 1 an albino was born blind. All are still alive apart from the blind one. He died i'm sorry to say only two days ago, He lived for well over ten months and the others are over ten months old, obviously. I keep them alive through kindness but also when i sell the grown fish and the tank is empty the deformed ones keep the filters primed until i can source my next breeding stock, which ever that might be