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He defiantly does work alot harder to swim around.. Ill give him another week and see if he improves or not
Thanks Dennis, the little guy has been going strong (well eating and swimming around.. although in large spiral circles) but I have hopes him !
Great write up.
At what point would you consider the fry to be big enough to eat the shrimp? 3/4 adult size?
Thanks for the reply. I will try it out if i end up with fry this round.
I just took the parents out of the new attempt of a breeding tank (mesh bottom with a mop and some random stem plants) the ground is a bit dirty from pulling out them steams from other tanks so its hard to tell if their are eggs or not (they were in there foe a week so i hope so).. i put 1m/1f adult CPDs into a shrimp tank to test and see if they mate int here or not and the the other females back into the main communal tank.. so hopefully some fry pop up in a few days
The mesh was my form of an egg trap, there is a dark green mop in the tank. Maybe i will see if i can find a black mesh instead. I may also make a few more mops to go along with the random assortment of stems floating in the tank to help with natural filtration and an oversized Aquaclear filter turned way down.
Do you think large marbles or some sort of a “bigger” round substrate would work better than using plastic mesh?
Once they do a few spawns i plan on removing the parents then either letting they fry grow up for a few weeks in the tank then moving them or move them to one of the shrimp tanks to grow out.
Problem solved, cut a large gatorade bottle in half, sink it and corral some fish into it.. then scoop it up! worked like a charm!
So i have aquired an Aquaclear 70 (which is overkill for a 10 gallon) how ever it will hold tons of beinifical bacteria once seeded (currently piggy backing on a cycling grow out tank. I cut out the stopper in the motor cover to allow it to be turned down even lower. how ever it still has about double the output as an AQ20 on low. Will this be to much flow for a breeding/bare bottom fry tank? IF i was to put some filter sponge or something to difuse the output even more would this be okay? I plan on using a 10gallon bare bottom tank. I have another 10 gallon setup that will be a grow out tank.
I will have to step it up.. I just did a 20-30% change tonight. did one maybe 3-4 days ago.
Theres 15-19 fry in my 5.5G tank with a few shrimp and its fairly heavily planted
Thanks for the PDF Dennis. It should be a good read. I was thinking of buying a few new cpd’s form differ sources once in a while but if they share the same tank there’s no way to keep track of which come from. Where!
Ill give it a good read
.Cheers!
What percentage of water and how ofent do you change the water in the fry tank. I have been doing it every 5 days and more slowly keep appearing!
Ouch, shipping is up there for anywhere outside of the US. ill try to find a cdn source. thanks for the link
Thanks guys!
Well i found first bites locally ordered some bbs eggs (and started some green water). I have been putting in micro worms and first bites into the water so hopefully that is enough to get them started. I cant seem to find golden pearls around there.
