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Post by vladsbtch on Nov 24, 2010 23:12:26 GMT -6
My blue plat pearlscale male and philippine blue zebra female have spawned again. They just did that today.  And in the other tank that has the blue plat female and the black male they had spawned again and I just kept an eye on it because of the last spawn. Well I think this spawn has a better chance. The fry are staying at the top where I know there is a lot of food for them and I can put the vinegar eels right to them. I also notice that this spawn is not hanging onto the mom and dad all of the time. Maybe the last spawn that got to the swimming stage had found the food this may not have happened. I think they were eating off of the parents and they got tired of it.   They are not swarming the parents so maybe I will get some out of this. Only time will tell,. |
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Post by bunnie1978 on Nov 25, 2010 9:04:10 GMT -6
If you do, I'll be especially interested in them. When I rebuild my breeding program, I want to concentrate on parent raised babies so that I can build my Angel program without artificial hatching. I never really liked doing that, even though I know you can get more out of them. But the few babies that I had that were parent raised are turning out to be stunning. They have very long dorsal and anal fins considering that they are not veils.
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Post by angel on Nov 25, 2010 9:48:50 GMT -6
That's what they do is eat off the sides of the parents . The danger in that is if they eat too much off of them. They can kill the parents that way. I hope they go for the vinegar eels. Another thing you can do, when they swim too low for the food, is take a syringe and plunge the food right by them. That's how I used to feed mine, and they could eat it that way.
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Post by vladsbtch on Nov 25, 2010 10:43:08 GMT -6
I do use a syringe to feed them the vinegar eels. But it is a short one I need to get a longer one, one of these days. I also put the java moss up closer to the top where the mom seems to want them to be once they are wrigglers. I know they have food up there with the sponge filter and moss and it is easier to see that they get those eels. i am really enjoying watching them. I tried to do it myself and hatch a spawn a while ago and got them to swimmers even. I must have had over 200 babies in the tank. I do not know what happened but they just started to die on me. So I haven't tried that again. I am going to put some java moss into the other tank by the place that mom likes to put the wrigglers. We will see how it goes. I would rather the parents raise them less work for me LOL.
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Post by angel on Nov 25, 2010 11:18:28 GMT -6
Temperature maybe. I got a tip from Rick Easterly, who had the same issues and then got a tip from someone else. Keep the temp at 80F. Anything less and they die in the swimmer stage for some reason.
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Post by vladsbtch on Nov 25, 2010 12:50:54 GMT -6
Thank you Tina I will double check the temp right now. I appreciate the tip.
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Post by bunnie1978 on Nov 25, 2010 18:47:31 GMT -6
I found it easier to keep them fed when I was using flake food and just crushing it with my fingers. But I've never tried vinegar eels. I would think that it would be easy because they live for so long in the water, so it should be easy to avoid them getting too hungry. I also usually had them at high temps too, over 85.
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