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| Clown Loaches; do they breed in community | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 21 2007, 04:25 PM (679 Views) | |
| iceken | Aug 21 2007, 04:25 PM Post #1 |
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im just wondering if these guys ever breed in communities as i have 3 which are alwayas realli playful and chase each other around all day. wondering if there are any "signs" of breeding |
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| scuba123cliff | Aug 21 2007, 04:36 PM Post #2 |
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Nitrate Cycle
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I have heard that clowns breed at a large size(300mm+) and need the help of chemicals, fact or fiction i dont know. Cliff |
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| Stuart Elflett | Aug 21 2007, 05:09 PM Post #3 |
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Large size - yes... chemicals - more likely an idea propogated by one of the fish games out there... Chasing each other round is what they do - like danios... |
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| sthn75 | Aug 21 2007, 05:25 PM Post #4 |
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Yellow Tang
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Has anyone googled it?
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| sthn75 | Aug 21 2007, 05:46 PM Post #5 |
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Yellow Tang
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Ok.... pretty much I could only come up with one reported case of Clown Loaches breeding in an aquarium and that case is believed with skepticism due to no photo's being produced as proof... But here is some info about it anyway from: http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/breedi...wn_Loaches.html
There is also more info here (this article mentions about hormone-induced breeding of Clown Loaches): http://www.loaches.com/articles/clown-loac...g-related-items |
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| Stuart Elflett | Aug 21 2007, 09:13 PM Post #6 |
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No, but I've got it in a 'Practical Fishkeeping' compiled book I picked up off ebay... has breeding paramaters for lots of fish we don't even see mentioned around the traps, sample setups for hundreds of tanks, etc... one of the best resources I've got... will check it next time I'm in the reading room...
(yes, it's in the 'boys' toilet... (I'm the only boy... I *win*!!!))
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| sthn75 | Aug 21 2007, 09:31 PM Post #7 |
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Yellow Tang
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Well you'd better start reading Stuart and let us in on all the secrets :lol: :lol: |
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| mars.40 | Aug 21 2007, 11:38 PM Post #8 |
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Lion Fish
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Well done guys,
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| sthn75 | Aug 21 2007, 11:47 PM Post #9 |
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Yellow Tang
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Just helping out where I can
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| Stuart Elflett | Aug 22 2007, 09:03 AM Post #10 |
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Yep, they need to be mature, which equals old and large, necessitating a big tank - water needs to be very well maintained, and professional breeders inject them with an enzyme found in the pituitary gland - that will bring them on to spawn fairly reliably... otherwise it can be a long wait... the book I have suggests they're a little easier to sex than that, listing a couple more differences, but it's at home and I'm at work... lol |
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| iceken | Aug 22 2007, 04:51 PM Post #11 |
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Guppy
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geeez, takes quite alot of work breeding these. dont think ill try :lol: thanx for all the info every1 very interesting especially the injecting of enzymes thanx thanx
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| sthn75 | Aug 22 2007, 08:36 PM Post #12 |
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Yellow Tang
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you're welcome Iceken
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| Aggies Aquarium | Aug 22 2007, 10:37 PM Post #13 |
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We had a pair of Snakehead gudgeons, at this point of time they havnt been bred in captivity. So we had the vet come out to inject with the hormones a few times over a period of time. Very expensive excersize and unfortunatly no result
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| iceken | Aug 25 2007, 09:29 AM Post #14 |
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Guppy
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awww bad luck aggies. just wondering y doesnt my saratoga eat or harras the clown loaches? is it common for all fish not to harass them because ive read loaches have some poisonous thing near their heads release it when stressed or under atack.or is it just my toga, i tried adding some bn and he started chasing them so i took em out. |
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| Aggies Aquarium | Aug 25 2007, 12:20 PM Post #15 |
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Loaches have little blades near the gill plate that they extend and use if they are being harrassed. Very sharp so sometimes you need to be carefull handling them when in a net. The sara may still take them one day though, you can never tell with them as they will live with certain fish for ages then they may slowly dissapear. |
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