Aequidens metae spawn

[Andrewtfw]

I picked up this pair from Rapps a few months back. They spawned for the second time on Monday. Unfortunately, I can't remove the wood that the eggs are on and I can't remove the tankmates. I hope to be able to remove some fry if the pair do a good enough job of protecting the eggs.

 

[cichlidaddicted]

Those guys are bad! Very cool.

Sent from my SCH-S960L using MonsterAquariaNetwork App

 

[Leffler817]

Gorgeous fish Andrew! Congrats on the spawn!


Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app

 

[jonclark96]

Good looking fish, Andrew. Hopefully they make it to wigglers and you can pull some fry.

 

[dogofwar]

Great job!

Matt

 

[Rasta Fish]

Those guys looks pretty cool
Good job!

 

[festaedan]

Congrats! Those are great looking fish!

 

[mchambers]

Those do look very cool. Cool luck with the spawn!

 

[neut]

Beauties.

What size are they and what are you keeping them with? I expect if they're diligent they should be able to protect eggs from a range of tankmates, other than bigger, nastier cichlids, maybe, or something like a good sized and determined pleco.

 

[Becca]

GORGEOUS.

 

[ddavila06]

what a beauty! peaceful?? not much info online...

 

[rich_one]

Wow... those look awesome! I see some photo of the month potential there!

-Rich

 

[Tony]

Oh hells yeah!

Those were the fish that caught my eye the other day!

Do you want a piece of eggcrate to put in there as sort of a block. It won't completely keep the other fish out, but will help them guard against sneak attacks or being overrun. You can pick up this afternoon if you'd like.

 

[Localzoo]

They are stunning


Sent from my iPhone using MonsterAquariaNetwork app

 

[dogofwar]

A. metae are great acaras. Males can get 7-8" but females tend to stay smaller.

They're on the more peaceful side of the spectrum but can hold their own with Geos, Sevs, etc.

I've had them breed but not successfully raised fry. Hopefully Andrew will have success!

Matt

 

[blkmjk]

Awesome fish! Congrats.


Drew

 

[rsretep]

WOW. Congrats on the spawn, some real beauties there Andrew

 

[Andrewtfw]

Oh hells yeah!

Those were the fish that caught my eye the other day!

Do you want a piece of eggcrate to put in there as sort of a block. It won't completely keep the other fish out, but will help them guard against sneak attacks or being overrun. You can pick up this afternoon if you'd like.

I could not make it over tonight, but thanks for the offer, Tony. I have egg crate that I can use, but I will have move around a lot of the wood in order to be able to divide the parents and eggs from the other fish. I am pretty sure that disruption will result in them eating the eggs.

 

[Andrewtfw]

Beauties.

What size are they and what are you keeping them with? I expect if they're diligent they should be able to protect eggs from a range of tankmates, other than bigger, nastier cichlids, maybe, or something like a good sized and determined pleco.

The male is about five inches. The female is about three and a half. They are in a 75 gallon. The other fish include a pair of rainbow cichlids, a pair of cutteri and some small bushynose plecos. It is the cutteri who stand the greatest chance of getting to the eggs. They constantly try to get the metae to relocate from the area where they spawned. However as of right now, the cutteri seem to be preoccupied with each other.

 

[Andrewtfw]

what a beauty! peaceful?? not much info online...

Yeah, I found limited information on them when I bought them. I have a pair of aequidens diadema, so I figured the requirements would be similar. They never bother my other fish, but they happily consume plants. The anubias in with them is doing okay, but they ate the water sprite and have even chewed up a bit of the java fern.