Link2Hell Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Came home on Sunday evening and went in to feed the fishand after dropping in the food had second look and saw thispicture is day 2 and the eggs are looking pretty good only onethat looks light in colour think quick and grabbed a bucket quick clean, ever try to hold offfish from feeding on caviar while syphoning water into a bucketwell saved most of what I foundgrab a sponge filter from the tank, handy just having them in therebecause you never know when you need one the suspects were lined up in the betting these guys are my favourites for the parents she is looking slimmer now but there was no parental guardingof the spawn site but they keep swimming around as if lookingfor something Hope to have a box of Chocolates to raise click the pic for a larger image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Great looking chocolates. Very under appreciated fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link2Hell Posted March 9, 2015 Author Share Posted March 9, 2015 thanks Alexalways liked them and thought they would fit in well with the Geo'sfound them at Labyrinth and they just stood out at 7cm so pickedout what looked like a pair about 6 months later they are about 15cmand get better looking each day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Yep. They look like a young pair, that don't have that massive looking head with overly long trailing fins yet. Amazing how much they change from going adults to full blown adults. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Congratulations on the spawn Chris. Looks like they had a good fertilisation rate and you may have several boxes of chocolates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithoMan Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link2Hell Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 well there is movement on the wood, lots of little tails twitching awayfingers crossed the timing won't be a problem with me heading to Brisfor the weekend and them not having dropped of the spawn site aswrigglers yetI feel like they should be free swimming Monday or Tuesday the rate.they are developing so that should work in wellmore pics to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxib Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Thats cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link2Hell Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 well they have dropped off the spawn site and are wriggling away in their bucketexcuse the lighting quality first pic is by torchlight then I tried the flash hmmmmmmmm photographing into a bucket with low light levels time to crop thishatch ratio was excellent and this is what was leftjust 6 not showing opaque but not developing eitherspawn site was starting to slime up from the eggcase left overs so it was game over and hose thetimber down ... back to the breeders tank with it click the pics for larger image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LithoMan Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 how are these guys going ? any updats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link2Hell Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 Unfortunately they didn't survive came home to most of them fungused and the rest didn't last much longersimply bad timing, put it down to cool overnight temps and no heater with themso we wait for the next spawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Sorry to hear Chris. Hopefully you will not have to wait too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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