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Ten purchased captive-bred juveniles initially rejected bloodworms and Hikari carnivore. Read citation and limits

Disagreements and qualifications

L134 very soft acidic water necessity

{"id": "cg01", "topic": "L134 very soft acidic water necessity", "elements": ["s02.e02", "s02.e04", "s03.e01", "s08.e01", "s19.e01", "s12.e01"], "interpretation": "Low-conductivity successes coexist with repeated pH 7.4/TDS 100–140 ppm spawning. Separate individual conditions and hatch outcomes; TDS and conductivity are not interchangeable. No universal threshold inferred."}

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L134 seasonality

{"id": "cg02", "topic": "L134 seasonality", "elements": ["s03.e04", "s06.e01", "s10.e01", "s08.e01"], "interpretation": "March/April restarts, autumn wild-fish patterns and prolonged pauses differ. Hemisphere, stock origin, conditioning and room seasonality missing; do not prescribe a universal calendar."}

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L134 remove fry or retain paternal care

{"id": "cg03", "topic": "L134 remove fry or retain paternal care", "elements": ["s03.e02", "s03.e03", "s04.e02", "s04.e03", "s05.e02", "s09.e03", "s16.e01", "s32.e01"], "interpretation": "Both separated and parent-tank rearing succeed or fail. Food access, box turnover, handling and male behavior likely interact; no one-size-fits-all verdict."}

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L134 growth and adult size

{"id": "cg05", "topic": "L134 growth and adult size", "elements": ["s04.e02", "s05.e02", "s06.e01", "s08.e02", "s09.e01", "s09.e02", "s17.e02"], "interpretation": "Keep age anchors, SL/TL/unspecified length and cohort context. A reported 14 cm TL female prevents treating small type-series measurements or typical 8–10 cm accounts as absolute maxima."}

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L134 diet

{"id": "cg06", "topic": "L134 diet", "elements": ["s02.e05", "s05.e03", "s08.e01", "s11.e02"], "interpretation": "Rich-food-associated losses, refusal of offered foods, and successful protein-heavy feeding coexist. Nutrient mechanism and consumed food quantities unmeasured."}

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Offspring reached about 1.5 inches in four months; wild breeder age was only estimated.

Author corrects reader: feeding per day, not per week.

Original group did not breed for five years; male territorial fights caused deaths.

New eighteen-adult group spawned after frequent warmed-rainwater changes; male guarded overlapping clutches.

Fry in main tank and separate nursery reportedly grew at similar rates.

Captive-bred fish reportedly breed more across year; wild specimens mostly in autumn.

Gill/pectoral odontodes overlap sexes, tail expression varies; papilla shape alone can mislead.

Thirty adults; no fights observed; four males guarded eggs simultaneously.

Pastes twice daily after yolk disappearance; uneaten food removed before next feeding.

Eight–twelve hatch failures preceded switching to rainwater plus oak leaves; then three–four successful batches.

Database ties L134 to P. compta and names Walter Lechner as author of reused account.

L134 advice explicitly based on literature/general experience; no achieved L134 reproduction documented; project ended.

Home clutch maximum twenty–thirty eggs; incomplete survival; offspring then reached about five centimetres, no F2.

Cool RO 50% change preceded trapping; all twenty-six eggs/larvae later lost after male ejection.

Moving seven fish after two unsuccessful years preceded spawning four days later.

Twice-daily feeding; reportedly three centimetres by five–six weeks.

Two rainwater spawns yielded twenty–twenty-five fry; retained young reached five–six centimetres.

Own F1 fish produced F2; later spawning continued without RO.

Catalogue gives current combination, original Stoneiella leopardus and Rupununi type locality.

Historical L025 leopardus identification corrected; 2010 update differentiates L114/LDA07 from true leopardus.

Single pair reported in warm water with weekly changes.

Warm phase followed by cool softer changes and subsequent rewarming; source-specific practice, not endorsed prescription.

Crowded fry developed deformities; splitting groups reportedly reduced this; biting versus water quality unresolved.

New pair spawned spontaneously in smallest cave; male stayed with eggs.

Advisor had never kept L600; his failed rearing concerned L114.

Translated author reports one aggression incident among fourteen fish in four years; account mixes L114/L600.

One L600 reportedly grew around one inch annually over three years and was notably aggressive.

Ten purchased captive-bred juveniles initially rejected bloodworms and Hikari carnivore.

Shrimp/spirulina, crushed pellets and mussels suggested from mostly genus-level experience.

Reprint estimates four hundred eggs, about half fungused and roughly 220 hatched.