Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 638 Location: Bellevue NE
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:42 am
Post subject: So I'm cleaning the 180...
And my German Blue Blushers, the very same ones I had in semi-isolation in order to spawn, have got fry. Of course while they were in the 29, they ate their eggs twice, despite only having a couple Cory Sterbai, one L204 and one L66 as companions. So I figured, they're not the "takin' care of babies" angels and I moved them up to the 180 in the living room. Now, I'm not sure what I can do about the little wrigglers. Dang it. How frustrating! In the 29, they were getting Hikari bloodworms, the best of flake, FD daphnia and Sonic's pellets. They spawned and ate their eggs anyway. Now that they're in the 180, pellets and flakes are pretty much it and NOW they choose to be good parents.... argghhhhh.
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A few pics
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Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 638 Location: Bellevue NE
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:55 am
Post subject: A few pics
Here are a couple quick shots... babies are still doing ok although Mom and Dad are a couple of dumkopfs for doing it this way.
the babies were on the right overflow on the center portion, as I was cleaning yesterday, mom and dad moved all of the babies over to the rear of the overflow. It was pretty cool to watch. Course, got a little less cleaning done than I had wanted to.
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:18 pm
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Nice Mike.
Thanks for the pics. Are these regular spawners, or is it their first time? Sounds like they caught you by surprise.
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:02 pm
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they spawned a few times down in the 29 but kept eating their eggs and I didn't have a whole lot of time to devote to raising the babies artificially so I moved them to the community tank. silly fishies
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Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 188 Location: Des Moines, IA
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 2:58 pm
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nice looking angels
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mbovinet Site Admin
Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 750 Location: Omaha, NE
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:40 am
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How are these guys coming for you now? Have they gotten eaten?
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:04 pm
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Babies got eaten after four days of being free-swimming. I might see if i can net this next batch after they're free swimming and use a brine shrimp net to minimize damaging the fry. Not sure yet. It sure would be cool to have one of those transporter beams... just lock it in the block of babies and whoosh them into a safe tank.
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:26 pm
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Sounds like a plan. Let us know next time it happens for you and how it turns out
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