First hatch pictures
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nice fish Ged! How many youngsters have you got now?
I’m almost ready to devote a another tank to breeding mine so hopefully will get to be as successful as you. I’m still seeing a couple of my youngsters exhibiting the strange laboured swimming!?!
I find it so hard to count them I am guessing 70-80, the best method I found is to take a picture then count them in the picture. I have 50 + or – in one tank 20 in another and approx 10 of really small fry. Mine seem to have gotten into a cycle of only one female carrying eggs every week at first they all bred every week, now 3-6 fry a week. This makes it harder to collect them they get eaten easier this way. If I had to guess the females have eggs when they mature I added the females just as they reached maturity so they all had eggs. Once most of these fry are sold I am planning to separate the females then reintroduce them to see if I can get another large hatch. Do your youngsters sort of stay near the surface? What do you feed them?
A nice number your doing very well! I know what you mean about them being eaten. The biggest haul I had was 5…rest eaten!
Yes my youngsters rarely duck below the top third. I feed newly hatched bbs and red crumb food. The tank is also nice and mature with lots of moss and plants for natural food
It sounds like you are doing things right, I have some that do that as well they are the ones that have a tougher time. I am not sure if it helped but I used a plant floating at the surface which gave them shelter and a place to pick food off of I used brazilian pennywort it does very well floating and soaks up nitrates.It grows like crazy I end throwing some away every 2 weeks, just to keep higher light levels in the tank
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