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[kewimy]

I have been trying to breed these for over a year now-and whilst they go through the mating phases-still no eggs.i have 2 pair,the females nice and plump-ph approx 6 and tried varies temperatures-water changes and additives such as almond leaves,and though i expect eggs because of their behavour still nothing-can anyone help PLEASE!!!

[scotcat]

Hi There,

First of all welcome to the SC forums. One of our members..mummymonkey...has bred eques so I will elert him if he has not seen your topic.

[mummymonkey]

Keith I'll just repeat here what I sent you privately - just to open up the knowledge to more aquarists. Also if I may Allan I'll link to an article I wrote for our club weblog.

Well your setup sounds much the same as I used.
The females were like little golf balls at one point - I used mostly live food to condition them.
I kept them on the top shelf so they were quite warm and the water change was done after about 3 weeks.
The new water (I changed 50%) was a little cooler, not cold though.
They spawned within a couple of days and used mainly the floating plants and the area around the filter uplift.
Like C. rabauti, which I have also spawned, they like to spawn in areas of high water movement near to the surface.
About 400 eggs were laid and about half were fertile. The fry were as easy to care for as bronze corys and about the same size