Thing is, I can't see any eggs, unless maybe they're incredibly tiny.
I've found a site describing egg-less fake spawning runs before the eggs
are laid and I'm wondering if that's what is happening. Has anyone seen
T. espei or even T. heteromorpha eggs, and what did they look like?

Real small I understand.

I'll have to try to get these fish to spawn again after I'm back and can
try raising the fry. I've never bred characins before.

Good on you, breeding Rasbors is an accomlishment. Check out Randy Cary'e
website, he's the Characni guy.

I only kow one guy that breeds things like his. He stores rainwater
over peat and sets up a tank that's half this and hald tap. Big lump
of clean java mose and a sponge filter. Fish are fed very well on
the ebst and livest foods you can get, and the female is put in the
night before. Before sunup the male is put in the tank which you've
put in a place that get first morning sun. The fish breed at sunup.

When they're done the parents are removed and the tank is blacked
out until the fry are swimming. The eggs are light and bacteria
sesitive and extremely tiny, eating only infusorians.

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