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breeding Cyprinellas


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#1 Guest_AussiePeter_*

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 07:00 PM

G'day folks

I was wondering if anyone had any photos of their breeding setups for Cyprinella? Most species are crevice spawners, some folks stack up clay pot bottoms with gravel inbetween to make a crevice, others silicone tiles together, some use filter canisters. Does anyone have any photos of these setups, especially the latter two? I'm curious to see just what those setups look like.

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Peter Unmack

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 08:39 PM

G'day folks

I was wondering if anyone had any photos of their breeding setups for Cyprinella? Most species are crevice spawners, some folks stack up clay pot bottoms with gravel inbetween to make a crevice, others silicone tiles together, some use filter canisters. Does anyone have any photos of these setups, especially the latter two? I'm curious to see just what those setups look like.

Thanks
Peter Unmack

No photos, but welcome, my friend!

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:38 PM

Rakes et al. 2004. Reproductive Behavior, Captive Breeding, and Restoration Ecology of Endangered Fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes. pp 31-42.

Prett sure that has a picture of what they use for Spotfin Chub. It is unglazed stacked tiles. Nothing really too complicated. I've seen that with plastic spacers in between the tiles too.

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Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:46 PM

I don't have any photos but I have spawned C. spiloptera for several generations. I actually used a more natural approach. I just stacked up peices of shale out of the stream I caught them in and placed a few pebles between them to make a little space and they spawned readily using this setup.

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Posted 23 January 2007 - 01:13 PM

Rakes et al. 2004. Reproductive Behavior, Captive Breeding, and Restoration Ecology of Endangered Fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes. pp 31-42.

Prett sure that has a picture of what they use for Spotfin Chub. It is unglazed stacked tiles. Nothing really too complicated. I've seen that with plastic spacers in between the tiles too.


Thanks for that, was 1999 actually. There was indeed a picture! I wouldn't think that the cracks between those tiles would be large enough to get the eggs into. They didn't seem to space them with anything. It sounded like the eggs were somewhat adhesive though.

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Peter



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