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@ad9465 wrote:
My going through the dancing thing but I never see any eggs nor fry, why is that?
Could be a lot of reasons, but most likely they just aren’t at the right point yet.
Like with humans I’d guess, just cuz their flirting doesn’t mean they want to have kids together…
Anyway, condition them with good food, the right habitat and so forth, then have patience.
@celestialdude wrote:
Alright, first person in history to photograph and publish the eggs wins a prize.
The prize: being the first person in history to photograph and publish the eggs of a newly discovered fish species!!
Yes, and big, huge Thank You from everyone trying to breed these beauties…
So, to those of you that see eggs:
what do they look like (other than being really small)? What color? Silvery, like an air bubble? Opaque? White? Can you see the fry inside?
More details, please, please, please!
I did consider that the color differences might be due to the conditions of the tank, the food, spawning color and such.
And yet, I still hope that the differences may be genetic. After all, even organisms living in relatively small areas can possess different characteristics.
(And there are always freaks of nature )Mine were really quite pale when I first got them, and they were hiding and stuff. But now they go around like they own the place (which they do), and have brightened, yet are still a pale gold ( and with of course, those gorgeous gold spots)
Anyway, I guess time will tell.
@Darkmoon Bettas wrote:
If you do have a lot of these little worms–which are probably one of several forms of harmless, but pesky, invertebrates often found in tanks–and your fish are paler, eating less, and seeming lethargic, it’s time to do a water test, and probably a water change. Worms like that only tend to flourish when there’s an overabundance of biological material (uneaten food, decaying plant matter, waste buildup in the water, etc) so if you have a lot of them, it means something’s off balance. Check your ammonia/nitrite/nitrage levels, for sure. If they’re off, do an immediate 30% water change. Even if they look OK, I’d do a water change if it’s been more than 3 weeks since you did your last one.
Thanks for that advice, I did a water change in both tanks. Unfortunately I don’t have any way to check by ammonia/nitratite/nitrate levels at this time other then taking water samples to my local petstore. I looked at getting one, but it is out of my budget right now.
Unfortunately they seem to be in both my tanks.
I tried to get a picture, but there just wasn’t enough contrast because they blend in so well with the water and such. Even on supermacro mode the camera just couldn’t do it.
Not ich? Well thats a relief. But even if it is something natural and harmless, it bugs me that there is something in the tanks that I didn’t purposely introduce…Kind of like those little parasitic snails I got with the new plants the last time I bought plants…
On the bright side, when I was trying to take a picture of one of them in the other tank, my beautiful betta, Aquila came by and snapped it up in that big mouth of his!
I doubt anything could survive the stomach acid of that fishy.What exactly is in the liquifry stuff that they eat? And does it go everywhere in the tank, or do the fry have to come to it, or what?
: How does it work?Yes, but I got the feeling that stores won’t buy them till they got their adult coloration anyway.
I should probably do a bunch of research on danio genetics and stuff. I just don’t want to have to buy more wild caught galaxies.
Does anybody know if it’s bad to breed the parents with their offspring?
I thought it was ok for fish. At least, for a few generations.Another thought I had. I’m not just going to keep just any of the offspring, I’m going to keep some of the prettier ones for future breeding. That makes sense, right? Afterall, most people that buy the fish probably won’t buy them to breed them.
Ops. I should have mentioned that the problem is fixed.
The reason why they were just hiding in the java moss is that the rest of the tank was too open. Not enough plant-stuff to dart around to and from.
They’re happy now. They got a 10 gallon all to themselves (all 5 of them), well, and a snail. And it’s got sand and rocks the same color almost the same color as them. And tons more plants.
Nice pics, nice tank too
What is that low, mossy plant thing in the centre of the last picture called?
Hey zzyzx,
One way you could seperate the fry from the adults is to put the fry in a big, wide bowl of water and float it at the top of the tank.
It’s sounds like it would sink right? But it doesn’t, the same way a big, heavy cargo ship doesn’t. If it is tippy, simply use tape to secure it to a side, or sides of the tank
Anyway, that’s what I use to transfer fish between my two tanks of different temperatures.
Congrads about the babies
