DarrylR
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It has been a while since an update, of around the 20+ fry I put into the 29 which were free swimming to freshly hatched either they are hiding or eaten by the bigger fry or just died. But I do have the first 3 older fry that now has coloring and seems to be all female and about 10 more smaller fry.
Also my CPD breeding tank has not spawned in a while now, and it seems because I am not feeding any live BBS only variable I have not been doing lately.
I found out that the CPDS will spawn in a baseball sized amount of java moss instead of the basketball size that used to be in there. I guess give them some sort of plants and they will get jiggy in it.
Rescaped the tank:
@ballpc wrote:
Hi DarrylR!
You might want to get some sponge pre-filters for the intakes on those hob filters. They will keep the fry from getting sucked into the filter.
Dennis
Yuppers I put sponges on the intake filters the same day
.I found a few dead fry they were not freeswimming yet but at the young stage that they still clung to the glass or plants. I am unsure why but they were very tiny than the others who are at least a bit bigger. I would think maybe they were just the runts who died.
I also moved the 20+ fry to a 5 gallon hexagon tank. Also I realized I have not seen any spawnings in a while now, and have not found any eggs in the past week or so? Any ideas?
1:38 AM Pictures update! Best pictures I got so far and I am completely clueless with using macro on my digi. But here goes
.These are my oldest fry.
The Freeswimmers.
The Freshly hatched.
Crazy dog :S.
No picture this update but I did fine some fuzzy white eggs.(found around 4 fuzzy eggs out of the 20+) The whole egg was white and fuzzy, is this because they are unfertilized, moldy/old.. or another reason?
Best pictures I can get of the current eggs I have at the moment and are actually hatching right now. Around 20+ eggs.
@ballpc wrote:
DarrylR, what were you feeding them before the brine shrimp?
Dennis
Hikari First Bites though at the stage after hatching I was unsure if they were eating it at all. But at that time they were still absorbing their yolk sack. And I found out they disliked liquidfry food and was very messy. You can also add in plants like java moss and pelia so the fry can eat any microscopic life.
Update!
Prolific fishies, the fry are growing big and one fry already looks like a mini CPD adult without his/her colors.
I just did a siphon and finding around 20+ eggs.
Time to find another grow out tank
.Update:
The CPD’s recently spawned yesterday and collected around 10 eggs, I think that only 1 or 2 females mated and missed a bunch of eggs.
But for now here is a picture of the tank with the new anubias barteri, nana, and windelov fern.
