Copella and A. panduro territorial dispute

[rr16]

So my male Copella has come into breeding condition, lost his stripey background colour and is displaying at everything. He's even having some fantastic-looking displaying sessions over territroy with the A. panduro pair. Here's a video (not very good quality due to low light levels) of him displaying against the male A. panduro. Here are a few pics also of how he looks now.

 

[themountain]

Very nice...I love Copellas!

 

[rr16]

Even better was when I looked today!
P.S. Any idea what species they are?

 

[themountain]

Looks like C.compta to me ...super nice fish!

 

[rr16]

When I went to feed the fish this morning I noticed that some of the eggs have hatched and there are now some little fry, complete with large egg sacs flitting about the surface of the Hydrocotyle leucocephala!

 

[rr16]

Spotted at least 15 fry today which is a good sign I guess. They hide underneath individual pieces of duckweed then float out to "open water".

 

[Livebearer Lady]

rr16,
Visit Tom & Martins apistogramma site as there is alot of Copella species on there to match watch you have. Its under "Lesiasinidae" species page

 

[rr16]

rr16,
Visit Tom & Martins apistogramma site as there is alot of Copella species on there to match watch you have. Its under "Lesiasinidae" species page

Thanks, I've already been on there and had an email conversation or two with Tom. He seems to think they are either C. eigenmanni or C. compta. Just invested in some C. arnoldi for my 5 footer so waiting for the splashing to commence now!

 

[rr16]

So it's around 4 weeks later and there are a few fry left (probably 10-15) in my breeding net. I also found some other eggs and added them but they may have been from my Nannostomus eques (I guess time will tell).
Here's a not too great video with some of the fry in.

And here's one of two of the adult males having a nice sparring match in breeding dress!

and whilst this was going on I noticed the Nannostomus eques appeared to be spawning in the floaters...

Sorry, the videos are poor quality - still getting used to my new phone!

 

[rr16]

So I looked amongst the Hydrocotyle leucocephala as the female was slimmer and one of the males was on patrol and chasinf my A. panduro pair away - nothing! Then I looked for the catappa leaf I had put in a couple of days ago which had been floating near the surface with a gap of about 5-10mm between it's surface and the water surface but it was nowhere to be seen! Then I found it on the bottom of the tank, complete with around 25-30 eggs stuck to it so it's gone in with the others in the breeding net, just hope they're too small still to do any harm to the eggs!