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It's 22:14 on Tuesday, June 29th as I write this (but posted later because the whole of the 30th was taken up with a job interview). And guess what?

My so-called 'baby Pandas' are spawning.

Yes, that's right, they're spawning as I type this.

I started to gather together the assorted items for my evening meal, and hey presto, the juvenile Pandas in the nursery aquarium are spawning. The female is surfing the bubbles from an airstone with an egg pursed in her pelvic fins, and two of the others (I presume they are males) are following her around attentively, no doubt enjoying a bit of surfing in the process. Apparently these Pandas like to go about the mating business in a jacuzzi

Again, I must be doing somethng right if the juveniles have reached the stage where they are spawning!

In fact, as I look into the kitchen from the living room (when I wedge the kitchen door open, the aquarium is easiiy visible) I can make out all kinds of frolicking going on in the nursery aquarium. And, not to be outdone, the Pandas in the main aquarium in the living room are engaging in some powerhead surfing as well!

Also, as a result of seeing the four fungused eggs I mentioned in a previous post, I am now revising somewhat my initial view that Pandas are avid egg-eaters. Perhaps my first Pandas (the parents of the now-mature individuals in the nursery aquarium) just happened to be particularly bad in this respect, or alternatively didn't have enough distractions of the Bloodworm kind to keep them from eating their own eggs once spawning was over and hunger began to set in. However, I would still play safe with Pandas, and assume that they are egg eaters, just to make sure, and take the same precautions with them as would be taken with notorious egg-eating Corydoras such as corydoras sychri, which have an especially bad reputation in this regard. My previous observations about egg-eating need to be revised, however, in the light of the presence of four eggs on the glass of the nursery aquarium, all close together, and all apparently unmolested by the parents. It is possible that the 'egg eating' behaviour I witnessed with the other Pandas was partly accidental, as I notice that a female Panda will, if choosing glass as an egg laying site, clean it prior to depositing the egg.

Just as well I have some FungiStop in stock, isn't it?



Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Wow, congrats

I've only seen my cories (trilineatus) spawn once. The few eggs I managed to rescue didn't make it but it was still fantastic to watch.

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Congratulations for your Panda's.



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