indyplanted
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Anybody bred or currently breeding any? I recently acquired 6 Nannostomus espei and 6 nannostomus beckfordi
Well, I don't know if it helps you, but I managed to breed N. marginatus "Broad Stripe" (I don't know its actual name).Anybody bred or currently breeding any? I recently acquired 6 Nannostomus espei and 6 nannostomus beckfordi
N. marginatus (that is the coral red pencil, right?) and N. mortenthaleri (that is the one that looks like the red coral but is more purple... right)?QUOTE]
Close...marginatus is the small red finned pencil that looks a little like trifasciatus. Not one of the pricy ones and you can actually find them at LFS once and a while.
also got some Microrasbora erythromicron when I picked up the pencilfish.
Same think happened to me. Find some Marginatus fry in macmasteri tank without doing anything special.I've never really bred pencilfish, but I have had N. marginatus and Copella bleheri produce fry in my apisto breeding tanks. I did nothing; no special food, water, etc. Once the pencil fry were large enough for a net, I would move them to a grow-out tank.
This is probably a common accurance. I have some pictures but they are horrible.Same think happened to me. Find some Marginatus fry in macmasteri tank without doing anything special.