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The keeper had four parent fish for about two years before this reported fry event. Read citation and limits

The owner described a planted 30-gallon tank with wood and rock shelters, guppy, shrimp and two tetras; the heater display stayed at 82 degrees. Read citation and limits

This keeper reported initial months of hiding followed by morning/afternoon activity and emergence during tank disturbance. Read citation and limits

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diamond-retrospective-population

Common-name identity provisional. Three-to-twelve is population history with unknown removals and cohort denominators, not a survival rate. Hidden fish complicate counting.

Retain dated narrative and later endpoint; unresolved causation and taxon identity.

grazing-food-unidentified

Observed grazing does not identify organisms as infusoria or bacteria. Artemia success is unenumerated personal history; no Bacter AE equivalence established.

Retain dated narrative and later endpoint; unresolved causation and taxon identity.

second-brood-final-loss

December live fry are dated intermediate outcomes; January retrospective endpoint is zero survivors. No independent replication or final success inferred.

Retain dated narrative and later endpoint; unresolved causation and taxon identity.

stage-and-parental-fatality

December24 spawn versus hatch stage wording unresolved. About ten third-brood survivors, six moved/four remaining; later adult-female fatality is separate, attributed cause not diagnosis. Replacement introduction is planned.

Retain dated narrative and later endpoint; unresolved causation and taxon identity.

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The keeper described current eggs as milky white versus deep yellow in an earlier L201-labelled clutch.

The keeper had four parent fish for about two years before this reported fry event.

After adding a wavemaker, the keeper thought the fish were more receptive; a female was seen trapped in a cave weeks before the fry report.

The owner described a planted 30-gallon tank with wood and rock shelters, guppy, shrimp and two tetras; the heater display stayed at 82 degrees.

This keeper reported initial months of hiding followed by morning/afternoon activity and emergence during tank disturbance.

The keeper counted 25 fry so far.

The keeper said breeding was prolific enough that removing spawning tubes was used to limit it.

After some fry were expelled from the cave, the keeper removed the remainder so the male could rest and eat.

About one and a half years after first spawning, the keeper estimated 100–150 offspring from parents described as wild.

The keeper described two L471-labelled sisters bought together, three caves and dense plants.

The keeper described slow growth and expected saleable size in April; that was a forecast, not a later measured outcome.

Spawning followed arrival by three weeks; the keeper saw fry.

The keeper observed the female consuming fry and reported total brood loss amid tankmate predation.

GaryE recalled roughly six-week spawning intervals in wild-caught cacatuoides and choosing young mature males with older females.

The second brood was alive; the keeper had moved predators to another tank.

The keeper tried diluted Bacter AE without infusoria and was culturing brine shrimp for later feeding.

The keeper reported improved female herding and male guarding compared with the first brood.

GaryE reported raising multiple cacatuoides broods on newly hatched Artemia.

GaryE clarified that grazing on Java moss was observed; the consumed organisms were unidentified.

At the stated age of fifteen days, second-brood fry were alive, receiving baby brine shrimp in a mature tank without predators.

The keeper retrospectively reported no survivors from the first two broods.

The pair entered a reportedly cycled breeder tank with black sand and two coconut shelters.

The pair moved on January 5; the keeper attributed the female’s January 11 death to the male.

Two replacement females were already quarantined; later introduction was planned.

GaryE reported unsuccessful attempts to breed with two female cacatuoides together.

The third brood occupied a 20-gallon-long community tank with mollies, platies and endlers; its parents defended roughly half the footprint.

The female took fry into her mouth and released them; the male chiefly chased tankmates while the female guided fry.

No deliberate spawning setup; discovered a small fish among abundant plants. Tankmates included cardinal tetras, nerite snails, and Malaysian trumpet snails.

Recalled three or four spawning events, numerous young eaten, and a population increase from three fish to twelve.

Recalled that the young were difficult to find because they hid effectively; no additional survival count.