Liosomadorus oncinus and other Woodcatfish

Win some, lose some as they say. I feel like we were close to achieving a second spawning from our Jaguar Catfish, Liosomadoras oncinus, but all of the 400+ eggs are infertile. My thinking is that the male did not fertilize the eggs and instead the female discarded them. This still leaves us with hope that they will one day lay fertile eggs and that we will be able to offer the first F-1 Jaguar Catfish juveniles to the public.

Our Tatia strigata and Tatia gyrina also laid eggs but these too were infertile. It might be time to get the R/O water going on all of these species to see if that helps. We are still in our early stages of working with these fish. Our Centromochlus reticulatus appear to be next. Fingers crossed!

On a happier note, our Centromochlus perugiae fry are doing well and they just had a second spawn. All the eggs appear to be fertile. We hope to be able to offer these at CatCon in October. Until next time, enjoy these videos of Geophagus megasema and Geophagus sveni which should be ready by ACA 2016 in Cincinnati!