I'm not sure what species this is. But, since we were conversing about jewel fish earlier in the week, and since jewel fish are really neat no matter what species, here's a video of a pair spawning. See you at the meeting.
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We got lucky enough to have this young pair of Paretroplus maculatus spawn the other day:
unfortunately, the eggs were gone on the third day.
Sure was a long time to hold my breath!
A few months ago Ken shipped me those gobies from the Rio Bonita.... I've got them on commercial food etc.
Some of the females are looking REALLY plump. Since this fish had never been spawned in a tank.... I'm looking for ideas on how to trigger spawning.
The river they come from is quite...