CELESTIAL EGGS AND FRY…AND ABOUT TIME TOO.
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Hi all after having the cpd’s for about 6 months now iv finally got around to spawning them properly. I set up a bare 16x8x8 furnished with a sponge filter and a woolen spawning mop. I placed a trio (1female 2male) Into the tank and basicaly thats it. I removed the trio the next day and shook the mop and the eggs came falling out, they are not adhesive and fell easily out of the mop. Water temp was 79f and the water was soft and slightly acidic. Only a few eggs were layed and i counted about 10. I now have 9 fry from this spawning and they are feeding well on microworm, i do a 25% waterchange daily and keep the food going into the tank, they are 2 weeks old and growing quickly. I have recently set up another spawning tank and spawned them again, this went exactly the same and i have 10 fry that should be freeswimming and eating tomorrow.
Great job Ste. Did you get a chance to take any photos of the eggs? You could win the award for “first person to photograph Celestial Pearl Danio eggs”.
Wonderful!
Truly.So then I really am the only person here that hasn’t gotten eggs or fry…
Everything should be right, but somehow, for them, something still isn’t.Maybe I’ll try playing that thunderstorm recording again loudly next to the tank, and do frequent, smalll water changes, and turn the the temp up a notch.
My family laughed last time I did the thunderstorm thing, but then, they don’t understand…Besides, my fishys weren’t nearly so beautiful back then.
At least I have my baby dwarf platies to raise. They’ve doubled in size already I think. Soon they’ll be on to BBS when I have the time and finely ground fish powder when I don’t. I have a ton of diffferent foods to chose from, so I’ll do the variety thing.
– Atlantis
@celestialdude wrote:
Great job Ste. Did you get a chance to take any photos of the eggs? You could win the award for “first person to photograph Celestial Pearl Danio eggs”.
Actually that’s been done already, and posted here by one of our members.
See here:
http://www.celestialpearldanio.com/viewtopic.php?t=210&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
And I photoshopped to point it out here:
http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc43/AC101Atlantis/?action=view¤t=galaxyegg.jpg
Go actually Glenn already won that honor.
– Atlantis
Haha!! Tx Atlantis. Wow that was back in July.
Sorry Ste, but I guess the 2nd Person award is still up for grabs.
Congratulations,
I set up a 12cm x 10cm x 10cm plastic tank with a mesh ca 2 cm from the bottom filled it with Horwart and put a pair of CPDs in it for 3 days, this was a test as i have 200 of these plastic tanks from my Betas days ( they were on a drip filter system) I also have around 7-8 young swimming around.
Mfg Peter
Oh ok then ill just take second place Lol
, thanks guys and Atlantis i cannot believe you have the thunderstorm recording…SO HAVE IHa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HOW SAD are we…….
The pic looks a lot clearer on my Pc than it does here, must be some compression. Oh well next time i do it ill take clear pics :wink:
CLOSING 2ND PLACE SPEECH
Well done to everyone else thats ever bred any fish, I would like to thank my mum for letting me own my first two tanks in her house 15 years ago, and for not hitting me when i flooded my bedroom (twice).. A special thanks go’s to my long suffering wife who trys hard to look interested when i am chatting about filter bacterior…And to my two young children for letting me use their rooms as my own personal fishroom before moving my tanks into the shed… Last but not least i would like to thank you guys for sitting there like a moron and listening to me chat complete SH!*TE…….
(Bow) thank you (Bow)*cue applause*
:roll:Atlantis i cannot believe you have the thunderstorm recording…SO HAVE I
Does it even make a difference? I know it helps with tough gish to breed sometimes, but if it doesn’t inspire these fish I ain’t going through being laughed at again. Plus I have to play it bloody loud, and it’s not exactly intering for me to listen to…
Do they respond to rock too
?– Atlantis
On the same note: last week my wife declared me “crazy” when she found me in our darkened living room at midnight, running the flash on my camera to simulate lightning (we keep having cold fronts roll through, so if the plecos breed, probably not because of me)! :lol: :lol:
viby72, Im just going out… but later on when iv got some time ill take some step by step pics and show you how to make them, ill find a pic aswel.
Oh yeah welcome to our little group…HAHAHA CONGRATS STE on the “2nd person award”. Those egg pictures are great, you can see the embryos in them curled up like a “C”.
@atlantis_child wrote:
Wonderful!
Truly.So then I really am the only person here that hasn’t gotten eggs or fry…
Everything should be right, but somehow, for them, something still isn’t.Maybe I’ll try playing that thunderstorm recording again loudly next to the tank, and do frequent, smalll water changes, and turn the the temp up a notch.
My family laughed last time I did the thunderstorm thing, but then, they don’t understand…Besides, my fishys weren’t nearly so beautiful back then.
At least I have my baby dwarf platies to raise. They’ve doubled in size already I think. Soon they’ll be on to BBS when I have the time and finely ground fish powder when I don’t. I have a ton of diffferent foods to chose from, so I’ll do the variety thing.
– Atlantis
No you are not the only one that hasn’t spawned them.I got a group of 12 fry a few months ago to grow on.I also bought the last two from my lfs to go with them.I have put them in a tank with java moss & woollen mops & just left them to grow.There has been no sign of anything yet but one day. :lol:
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