View Full Version : Red tail Squirell loaches - Aborychthys elongatus...1st breeding
azurekoi
05-10-2011, 18:23
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The pics of the two above are my male and female..... My housemate was sitting in front of my river tank just now and called me over... "What is this baby fish?" He asks...
"Uhm... Just a baby Endlers" I say... The lone last female Endlers I'm keeping untill @Vis (http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/member.php?u=530) collects her has spawned about 15 babies a week or so ago...
I sort of wander over to go look....and,there it is on the substrate... Bout 8mm long and quite darkly striped...a lone baby Squirrel loach!!!!
If my aging body could do a backflip,I would have done one right there and then - thank goodness sense prevailed and I can now post this happy event with you guys instead of being in the emergency ward in aggonizing pain....
Ran for the camera,but by the time I got back... It had dissapeared back into the very dense planting....gonna be keeping the camera next to the tank from now till I get that shot...lol
How it survived with the terror that is my Sumo loach in there,I dont know - thank goodness for the dense planting and all the moss...
wow dude, thats so cool!!!!
azurekoi
05-10-2011, 18:29
Even more exited now.... Just went and read up on them on a big loach site and their profile says that they have not been bred in captivity yet!!! Doubly chuffed now....he,he
give me a pic and you i give you a +1!
dude, thats super cool then!!!!
azurekoi
05-10-2011, 19:35
@Vez (http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/member.php?u=1500)....Start hauling out those +1's mate....he,he - Here's the evidence.... Not great pics,but best I could do on super macro(Was shaking a bit...lol) - think this is a second one - was only about two thirds the size of the 1st one I saw(this one just uder 5mm or so)...
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Been burning a bit of bandwidth and looking round....seems as if no one has bred them before - even the forum to end all forums on loaches said it hasnt been done...he,he
Cant realy take all the credit - mommy and daddy loach did most of it...lol - would like to think that a well researched and excecuted tank mimicking their natural habitat helped though....
+1!!!!!!
Cool little dudes!!
WELL DONE!!! That is LEGEND!!!
:adore:............ NO WORDS......... :adore: WOW........
azurekoi
05-10-2011, 19:45
Thanks guys! and thanx for the cred Vez....it has pushed me into the "haloed" 4 green bar reputation status now....lol - think I will go and celebrate with a big fat 12 year old single malt and a good cigar I've been saving for just an ocasion as this...
Now the hard questions start to come... How many fry do you think you have??? And would you be able to do it again???
STILL THIS IS LEGEND WELL DONE!!!!!!!
Can they be kept alive...... What is your plan man?
Reyno Gower
05-10-2011, 20:06
:beer: Congratulations !!!
azurekoi
05-10-2011, 20:16
Well,there IS at least two of them,that I know.... It would be virtualy impossible to count them as you guys have got no idea how overgrown this tank is - it is a friggen jungle in there(Who says you cant have a heavily planted river tank....lol)
Think this overgrown condition has led to the sucsess of the breeding - they had to make it to this size by feeding on the heavy layer of silt and detritus trapped inbetween the moss and amoungst the back wall of Vallis's roots
BugMan - think there is 2(But could be another 50 hiding in there...lol),as for doing it again? If they did it once - sure they will again...
Naomi - At the size of the fry,they must be at least 2 - 3 weeks old already,so think that if the fry can escape the predation of the parents,the Sumo loach,the Zebra Botia Gang,the Stiphodon goby and the Hillstream army...not to mention the ever hungry Endlers and rasbora gracilis school,they doing pretty o.k for themselves....he,he
Hi Shawn, great stuff man! I will bump that cred of yours up some more for firstly keeping that endler for meand secondly for this great achievement.I hope you went and bragged on that loach forum, like in your faces loach dudes :)
Bummer, apparent I gave you some rep last and now I have to go spread it somewhere else first.
azurekoi
05-10-2011, 20:39
lol - thanx Vis,thought that counts... Must first work out how to post pics on that Photobucket program before I can go blow their socks of on the loach forum....he,he - I am a bit of a retard when it comes to stuff like that....
O photobucket is easy.
Create an account.
Upload pics button.
When uploaded say save and go to album.
Put mouse over picture and a dropdown box appear.
And just click on the image code and it will copy so you can just paste.
azurekoi
05-10-2011, 20:42
Coolios...thanx....Will go try it out...
Wow Shaun, that is stunning. Congrats big time ...:party:
Congrats man! You must record this event!
windfire
05-10-2011, 22:27
yay well done dude. its always nice to find babies you didnt know about lol. i'll hold thumbs that next time you get to see them spawn
Dude that is awesome, you doing it right then dude lol
That is so, so cool!
Congratulations Azurekoi :)
I hope they live to be as beautiful as their parents...
jedigenie
06-10-2011, 10:24
If there was SA colours for fishkeeping you would have earned yours right now.
Well done on a remarkable first, way to represent :)
Congrats! What an awesome achievement!
SalmonAfrica
06-10-2011, 12:26
Mate, if this IS the first breeding known, let it BE KNOWN that it was you! I remember the huge hullabaloo they made when there was the first supposed breeding of mudskippers in captivity, but yours is just so much better with this solid evidence - in pictures!
Get in contact with someone now! :D
Shawn, please document this.... maybe it will work for hilstream loaches?!
azurekoi
08-10-2011, 11:31
Thanx Tim,but not my style to take it much further than this forum - rather just share it with my fishy pals here - Naomi... Im sure my Sewelia's will follow suit soon as well - with these guys it seems as simpleas just giving them conditions that mimic their natural habitat closely and boom,babies...
Btw - am sure that I have at least 4 babies now - saw 3 of them feeding together last night with another one popping out at another spot within split seconds after they dissapeared into the "jungle"...lol
Dude, that is unbelievable!! I've heard rumors of Loaches breeding before, but never seen any proof!! That is an exceptional achievement! If I were you I would document absolutely every water parameter and every single different thing in your tank, and see if you can replicate the results in a different system!! Well done man! Seriously! That is like a world first!!
Congratulations dude! Stunning news!
azurekoi
Rather late than never :bigsmile:
Congratulations dude, this is awesome....you did it once...now you can do it again
azurekoi well done! Just wondering why I cant find pics of this river system you keep talking about and the concept behind it!! Hint hint!
SalmonAfrica
12-10-2011, 12:45
Here Verndog - link to the thread (http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/showthread.php?8256-A-River-runs-through-it). A very good read, enjoy! :)
Here Verndog - link to the thread (http://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/showthread.php?8256-A-River-runs-through-it). A very good read, enjoy! :)
Nice, thank you! SalmonAfrica
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