Setting up my breeding tank.

[L777]

Fighting BBA — so what are your “weapons” of choice?

Tank looks good to me. The chocolates were the first thing to catch my attention!

[maximumbob]

for BBA, regular water changes removing as much as possible. Regular Flourish Exel, and turn up the CO2.

My fishy pics can be found on:

http://s99.photobucket.com/albums/l283/maximumbob/?start=0

And as your a plec guy… theres a little something there for you too

[maximumbob]

Amazing news!

I put 1 female and 2 male into my tank last night. It was my first attempt at breeding them in this new setup. When I came in from work this evening I was amazed to find an egg on the floor of the tank. I quickly scooped out the danios and shook the spawning mops.

On my first go it would seem that I managed at least 6 eggs.

Not an enormous number I know, but I think they snacked on them whilst I was at work.

My only picture is quite bad, but its a mobile phone pic… so for that its good!

[maximumbob]

woohoo.. the above egg has hatched into a very small little fry.

I’ve added some liquifry No. 1, and installed my air powered biofoam filter this morning.

I wonder how many will have hatched by then???

[L777]

Many congrats!! Keep us posted…

[maximumbob]

i now have a grand total of 2 fry lol

Not earth staggering amounts… but I am still pleased that I had a result after my first attempt.

Now I just have to figure out how to house these growing fry as I try to breed again.

[maximumbob]

well the final fry count is three. They are free swimming from today and seem to be doing ok.

I’ve ordered some smaller tanks I can fit side by side so I can grow them on a bit whilst I try breeding again.. one of my females looks very fat atm.

[maximumbob]

When I said final.. i actually thought it was.. but nature has a wonderful way of surprising you.

4 free swimming fry noticed today. So 4 out of 6 in a first attempt. I’m happy. With my new equipment coming, I will be trying again soon

[maximumbob]

the four fry are now approaching 1cm long and are happy and active swimmers. They are doing well on liquifry ad I will be trying them with BBS eggs soon.

I have purchased enough equipment for 2 more breeding tanks, so I’ll be making a concerted effort for a big spawn soon.

[maximumbob]

DISASTER!!!

I’ve had a bizarre ammonia spike in my breeding tank. My four fry died!!

I’m seriously gutted.

I haven’t a clue what happened to cause the spike. I have transferred the fish into a small tank, but the water and filter were the same.

I cleaned the new tank big time. I even sterilised it with a steam cleaner! (no additives obviously)

I think i’ll be investigating a little more before I try again

[celestialdude]

Got plants in your tank?

[maximumbob]

yes.. i have some floating plants and a couple of java ferns to soak up any nutrients… i duno what happened

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