as i was feeding my o's tonight i finally got to see them laying eggs. now i finally know which one is male and which is female. i took a few pics of her passes as she laid and his passes to fertilize.

here are a few pics of their spawn

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if you look carefully you can see her egg tube touching the slate in the last pic

Nice pics necromancer! I haven't witnessed this yet when it actually happens. Thanks for sharing those neat pics.

Pepe
Santo Domingo

hey fellow oscarfish enthusiast,
here is my newly laid oscar eggs



I hope I can hatch them properly this time

wow that is so cool
I love this site
good luck to you Paul and necromancer4 !

this time around i though i might try to hatch this bacth myself. the first thing i did was put some tank water a bucket and add a heater, airstone and some meth blue.


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then i waited for three days. i wasnt feeling to confident because i had some fungus starting on some egg(not enough meth blue i think) and decided if i didnt see anything by today i would try again the next time they spawned. after i cleaned up the slate i was preparing to empty the pail when i noticed something moving. after carefully removing the blue water from the pail this is what i was left with.


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here a closer look

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needless to say im off to the lfs in the morning to get some food for the little guys.

what a good idea! thanks necromancer4. I will do the same.
although, right now, i had moved my pangasius to another
tank.

great result daddy. I think I can call you that. I have thought for a while now that a do it yourself breeding program would work. But I lost 1 of my breeding pair so never got to try it. lets hope it all goses well. What are you planing to do with them.

well im going to keep at least one of them since it will be my first successful spawn. as for the rest i have a friend who is a breeder so any that i have left over i will probably add to his stock list an s see if he can distribute them to some wholesalers.
good thing im building a 300 gallon+ aquarium cause now my oscar count will be up to 6

I lost all my newly laid eggs. perhaps, I over dose
the 1/2 with mythalin blue while the other half was
eaten by the parents. I will try again next time.