Thought I would share this with you (also my first post here as well
)Here are my 4 luccipinnis (orginially bought as petricola)
should also update to say that these pictures are of the fish not fed for 48 hours and I've got 1 skinny male) and 3 fat females. Kinda get the feeling that another spawning may not be too far away
They are in a 260L Malawi Hap/Peacock Tank
Skinny Male
Gravid Females
Anhow, Don't ask me how - don't ask me when BUT the other evening I was checking on the status of the new tank and did a bit of a clear up (tank maintainence)
I pulled out the hidden heater and filter inlet behind the background and tohught I saw some movement..
A month ago I had a Taiwan reef spawn and thought that the movement could have been fry which survived or where held full term.... I was wrong.
A quick look with a torch and I've got two 1cm lucipinnis fry wriggling about happy as Larry
I don't know when it happened or how they survived, but my guess is that 2 of the lucipinnis got it on and spawned and the eggs when through the mesh I have on the background and survived in this back water - being tumbled about with the current and somehow surviving going up the filter inlet.
Here they are in all their glory - sorry for quality - macro not the best for lucipinnis fry
4 from filter
1 From behind the background
A week has now passed - they are feeding on crushed flake and daphanni
I've now got 5 fry in the trap (thats it - no more about) but I thought I'd post a few pictures of how things are getting on.
The breeding trap thats full of washed out (and empty) garden snail shells
They are a week older now since finding them but the large blotch pattern that was there originally are already beginning to break up and become tiny little spots (sorry for the photo quality but i've had to sharpen and lighten them to get the pictures out.
