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Dicrossus gladicauda

Mol_PMB

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Thanks. I need mine to grow a bit more then :)

Yesterday I fed my young pleco some red pepper, and now my little Dicrossus are mightily disappointed that what looks like bloodworm is actually pleco poo! They did try to eat it :/
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I think I'll go to the LFS later and get them some real bloodworms...
 

wethumbs

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Aquarium Glaser already turn pennies into gold by call them D. gladicauda. This is not the first or the last time Glaser pulled a fast one on everyone. They were doing it to the pleco community earlier by sorting out a group of pleco based on the patterns and way overcharging them as something else (which they were not) and got a lot of people upset with them. When the experts started to question the IDing of the pleco, the truth came out that A. Glaser was doing some 'special' cherry picking.
 

merlin

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Well the gladicauda turned out to be filamentosus, shame but look at the pics of my dominant male and he is worthy of keeping in any fish room. I was surprised by the length of the caudal filaments. Having never kept these I am fascinated watching the male chase the other male and 3 females around. Just hoping for a breeding now.
 

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merlin

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Wethumbs. That was the surprising thing about these fish. They only cosy €6 each. So there was no overcharging going on.
 

Yo-han

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Wow! Those are extremely long indeed. 1 of my males still has a long and a short filament. (Perhaps half blood gladicauda:p) The other two long ones. See sloppy phone pics:
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Yo-han

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A little update: I got my first eggs:) Came home and saw one of the females with blood red fins. She laid eggs on an Anubias leave:
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Never looked into breeding checkerboards before. I let this one go, and read up asap. Not sure which one is the dad, the filamentosus or the half gladicauda (only a small tip on the bottom filament)
 

Mol_PMB

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Great :)

Do the blood red fins mean that she has laid?

Mine got them recently (see pic attached near the substrate) but I haven't seen any eggs. I have also seen both her and one of the males trying to dig in the sand by wiggling their bellies.
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One of the males seems to be guarding a lair in the bottom corner of the tank.
 

Yo-han

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Yes, red fins mean she is ready to breed.
Funny thing is that my checkerboards are wild caught (most likely) and that I read they only breed in very soft acidic water. My tank is just a community tank, mainly focussed on aquascaping. Parameters for everyone who likes to know: KH 7, pH 6.6 - 7.6 (CO2 controller so 6.6 during the day, 7.6 at night). NO3 20-30 (added as salt) PO4 5-10 (added as salt) EC 400-450.
Using tapwater with KH 7 pH 7.7-7.8 NO3 < 1 PO4 0 EC250-300 changing 50% weekly.

Eggs survived the first night and the female is heavily defending them against other fish (though she didn't charged my finger).
 

Mol_PMB

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Thanks! Mine are in soft acidic water (pH 5.5, TDS 50, KH <0.3). They have only just reached maturity and seem keen to breed.
They share the tank with some Farlowella vittata and the female twig cat is gravid at the moment too :)
 

Yo-han

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And here is a picture from the dad. Note the lower filament of the caudal fin which never developed. At first I thought it was chewed of by the other male but this is the alpha male and it never got longer or shorter. But it is a little pointed unlike the photos I've seen of gladicauda tail fins on the internet.

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Mol_PMB

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I have also one with a very short bottom filament and a long top one. But like yours, it's not rounded as a gladicauda.

I took your hint of an Anubias plant - I moved one from another tank into a quiet corner of the Dicrossus tank, and have seen the male and female exploring it together.
 

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