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:lol: blackwidows and glowlights are just as easy as each other. Pillow and peat was a good idea. Your temp is a lot high, I would have gone for between 20 - 24C. When simulating the rainy season you decrease the temp.

Like a splash of cool water, to simulate change of seasons.

Yeah australe eggs seem to be a little more fragile them most. You could always try putting them in a temp spawning set up. Small tank 200x300x200mm (no heating this time of year) small sponge filter Clump of moss scatter saturated peat over the base of tank Feed bbs, blood worms and any other live food you can get your hands on. Remove breeders after 10-14 days(1 trio) Then put a small amount of micro worms in the tank and wait 1 week(or a drip of bbs every other day). after 1 week feed a drip of bbs after dark, give it 10min then shine a flash light in (from the side so you see across the beam) to see if you can see anything. Or try what Barrie mentioned.

What species are you talking about? How long have you had them?

Most likely, feewie another scam avoided, thanks zev.

:lol: funny, I don't think so.

I found 30+ eggs, is that enough? Will put them in blue for a few days then send polybox up

I'll see what I have in the mops. I leave the mops in their tank permanently and scope out fry if I have a spare tank.

I can't go, as it's the week before Easter and work won't let me I was looking at shipping my fish up Thursday, would you be able to transport them up Billaney?

Do you want me to send you some eggs?

Interesting you say that Stella. I collect the rafts and place them in my fry tanks. The year my neighbours kiddi pool got run over and left to collect wind fall leaves was great. I harvested 30-40 rafts after still clear nights.

Start at 3cm

That's pushing it Cam, but as I said pop a mop in and see.

Should be, pop a mop in and find out.

Mate, you were only kicking ya self, that sounded like something really special!! I think that as this mutation is homozygous it will appear again in someones tanks.

:lol:

That may or may not be correct. This is however why it is important to choose our breeders carefully, we know better/care>?<.

If your female Bristlenose has bristles then it's a hybrid The point is on wild strains not whats in your tank, unless it's a wild strain :lol:

Well you know where I live. Thanks A-town..., are you saying the back 1/2 colouration has appeared on a female?

A bushynose ancistrus are species where the females also have bristles, there are a few around. The ones Phil bought in are, the Madusa are as well, this species + others I can't think of right now that are floating around.

About 80+% of the males were snakeskin( not very good ones). There may be SS carrying Females but this is untested yet, most of them are heavy with the platinum gene - they glow in defused light.

Well I just found this thread... They came from me. No Phil not from you and the babies don't look at all like the ones you got in. They came to me directly from a commercial import - direct from Peru as A. hoplogonus but they are clearly not that sp., so there is no NZ hybrid in them either. They are a bushy nose Ancistrus rather then a bristle nose = females have bristles. When you see them up close they look nothing like pure common b/n. You can clearly see separations on the skull between the large head scales and there head is flatter compared to common b/n. They do look smiler to hybrid common b/n, but so do many wild species of Ancistrus.

What kind are you after? ablino?

It would be a good Idea to find out the general hardness of you tap water = calcium and magnesium, this is what you don't want in the water.

It's picked up the resistive swallow tail gene and it has snake skin too.