Cobitis paludica

[Mad Duff]

I was recently lucky enough to get a group of Cobitis paludica from Matt who is a member of NEA

I picked them up from Keith's house but when I got them home from I had lost one and one was looking a little poorly (got stuck in a huge tailback caused by an accident ), I got them into their own tank and after a few days most had picked up but a couple of the adults were starting to loose weight which I thought was sorted with levimasole. Unfortunately 4 of the juveniles and two adults didn't pick up and I lost them

Now for the good bit, when I decided to move the remaining fish into the rivertank to give them more space etc I caught the adults straight away but soon realised something wasn't right as I had too many fish, that's when I realised the size difference and realised that they had actually spawned

The pics I took when I moved them were rubbish so I took a few more a few days ago when having a sort out in the rivertank:

Male


Female and juveniles (from Matt)


Male and juvenile (from Matt)


Male front, female right (with juvenile behind) and that is a new youngster on the far left


Juvenile (from Matt) and new youngster


Poor image of new youngster


I have to say that I am very impressed with the growth rate of these youngsters, they seem to be growing by the day
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[keith565]

sorry mate, somehow missed this post.
sorry you lost a few, they seemed to be doing so well. but fab news about the spawning.
how are they getting on now?
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[Mad Duff]

They are doing ok now Keith, they settled into the river tank well and I think they may well have spawned again because the other day I saw a couple of small ones that seemed to small to fish that I moved into that tank.
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