Spawn Date: 3-25-13 between 12am-5am. Hatch Date: 3-26-13 at about 12pm. Will provide pictures below. Female (mother) picture will be delayed due to being damaged in spawning process. She is currently in a heated half gallon with AQ salt with daily water changes and being fed frozen bloodworms and glassworms. Male is currently tending to his nest an fry which are darting up and down. Very small spawn- probably around 30. I'm very proud of this pair due to them spawning so quickly and behaving so well. They were both virgins. Will update again when fry begin to free swim and father is removed. At that time they will be fed their first helping of banana or walter worms.
Thanks Matt. It's a very small spawn but I already have the female reconditioning and I pulled the male this morning since some of the fry began to free-swim. So I plan on breeding the pair again. Maybe in 3 weeks?!
Update:3-27-13 Fry begin to free swim. Banana worms harvested and fed. Will get pics when I move them from the plastic container to the glass aquarium.
Today was vinegar eels this AM. Then walter worms in the afternoon. And vinegar eels again before bed. I've added a gallon of water every day since hatch. The container they are in is almost being surpassed by water so I am thinking about releasing them into the glass tank either tomorrow or the next day. I can't really clean their small little breeding container so I will be excited to do a siphoning of the bottom of the tank. MORE & MORE fry keep appearing. I don't know where they are coming from but they were NOT in the nest haha. Just wanted to leave an update!!
Just moved them from the small breeding container into the open space if the 35 gallon. It is half full at the moment but will be filling due to water changes in the next few days. Basically just dumped them and left the house cause I have to go to work but we will see how well they are acclimating when I get home. Fed vinegar eels and banana worms today. Will feed some Walter worms when I get home from work. Tomorrow I'm going to introduce some micro worms. Then after 1 week I will start some BBS. Just wanted to update. Hopefully more pictures if the babies tonight.
Got home from work to see more eyes looking up at me. I haven't noticed any ill effect from releasing them into the 35 gallon tank. I fed the babies vinegar eels, banana worms, Walter worms, and micro worms this PM. Just a small container mixed with a little of everything and spread it evenly across the tank. Will set up my brine shrimp so that they will hatch on Monday. Then will feed BBS every other day after the initial day. little guys are still not feeling very photogenic so as soo as I can I will get more pictures.
Okay so I can't get a good picture of the babies... They are just too tiny. Tomorrow they will be five days old. Baby brine shrimp set up today. Hopefully will hatch by Monday. I've added about 3 gallons of water to the tank today usin the drip method. There seems to be no distress caused by adding water. Temp is holding at 85 degrees. Just am update on the little Fire spawn.
Just fed BBS for the first time! I love feeding BBS because the fry turn into little mini hunters. I only feed it every 48 hours tho bcuz I only hatch one batch at a time. Feed micro, banana, and Walter worms in between. Also vinegar eels. Still adding water to fill up the 35 gallon. Slowly but surely haha.
Fry are growing. Tomorrow the 35 gallon will be completely full at 9 days old! Smaller spawn + larger aquarium= easier water changes and faster growth. ALSO I placed the previously planned ICE spawn parents back together tonight after some extra conditioning. Hopefully the male will get busy with a nest.
Today the breaker in the fish room blew. I fixed it and ran upstairs to check the temp in the grow out which was 82. Usually I keep the temp 85 degrees. No devastation noted to the babies but it was very stressful to me. Also the ICE pair has still not spawned. Going to give it one more day. Will post more updates.
At 10 days it will still be hard to get good pics, unless you have a great macro lens. Is all that old food at the tank bottom?
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