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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:12 am
by Daudin
The female alredy has the eggs on her pleopods. I´m sorry I have not any photo. She is very shy and I do not want to disturb her by photo creation.

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:04 am
by Neonshrimp
That's good news :-D Please keep us updated.

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:11 pm
by RCSGuy
Nice looking tank, a great news :-)

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:08 am
by shrimpbaby
Good luck! The wild simoni are beautiful in their own right, as well.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:52 am
by Daudin
Definitely I have one female and three males. First egg batch fell down, second also :(. Males are adult, they showed frantic mate behaviour shortly before female egg laying. I consider to use normally colored animals.

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:16 pm
by Daudin
Hi,

I would like to inform you about my colorless C.simoni. I still have one adult female and three adult males. Progress in breeding and results:

1. colorless female + three colorless males ----> three egg batches fell down

2. colorless female + three wild colored males ----> one egg batch fell down

3. colorless female + six wild colored males (3 previous + 3 new)----> one egg batch fell down

4. three wild colored females + three colorless males ----> first and second egg batches of all females are OK and developing. Probably all offspring of first egg batches are wild colored (I see only wild colored animals). Second egg batches are still developing or just now hatching.

Next progress:

ad. 4 I will remove parental three wild colored females and I will keep together three parental colorless males with their offspring.


Image
Colorless female with dropping eggs.


Image
Wild colored berried female with colorless male.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:11 am
by pixl8r
Looks like an exciting project Daudin. Good luck!

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:22 am
by zapisto
i really like the look of this tank
wow original and nice looking

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:29 pm
by masni
I really like the look of your "ordinary" C. simoni, hope mine will be as nice as these.

I might be a bit stupid but does "egg batch fell down" mean the female dropped the eggs???

Thanks
Lilian

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:00 pm
by pixl8r
Yes, it generally means that the female did not carry the eggs until they hatched.