GBR spawn...

[Mugwump]

It appears that we have a spawn??....it's a flat rock and difficult to see. I put the rock amongst some water sprite..I'll try to get a better look this morning. I'm guessing that we looking at a few days before they hatch...free swim a few days later....we'll see... ..I'm hoping it's not a false alarm, or wishful thinking....LOL

[b125killer]

That's cool, Are you letting them parent raise or did you pull the spawn? Good luck with them.

[Mugwump]

Might be a false alarm......but a lot of chasing going on in there at the moment.....something's going on...??

[PaulineMi]

I love GBRs!  My LFS ones ended up with HITH and it was painful to lose such little beauties. I'd be interested in some if you end up with babies.

[b125killer]

OMG! I was feeding my rams and seen daddy fanning his eggs and mommy chasing the other rams away. So far they seem to be doing a good job at parenting. I'm going to let them have this spawn to see what they do.


Sorry to hear about your rams Pauline. I have heard that most rams at the LFS are imported from Asia and are pumped full of hormones. 

[Mugwump]

Nice, Scott.....good luck

[b125killer]

I went to look at there spawn a stupid snail was on them just munching away. I lost about half of them. Mommy and daddy where still chasing off the other rams and didn't pay any attention to the snail. I hope the snail liked his last meal. I put it in with the clown loaches.
I'm going to clean the substrate out and get the snails out of there tank now. I was thinking of changing there substrate to sand. I was reading that it's easier for them to make a nesting pit in the sand for when they move the fry.

[ilroost]

love the pict. scott
good luck with the rest of the eggs

[b125killer]

They didn't make it. It seemed that after the snail they just didn't want anything to do with the eggs. I cleaned there tank out. I hope i got all the snails out. I also gave them a sand bottom. It's easier to replace the substrate than try and pick snails out of the old stuff.   

[b125killer]

It looks like the rams had a party in there tank. I have two sponge filter in there and they both have eggs on them. too bad they aren't showing me who did it. I have slate all over that tank. There is nice big pieces on the sand and littler pieces all over the decor. Why do the fish always spawn on things that I don't want to take out of the tank? I also would like to be invited to there party. I guess it was a private party. 

[b125killer]

I was cleaning the rams tank and found out that they had  spawned on a piece of slate. I didn't notice it until I pulled the slate out of the water. I went to clean the "sand" off the slate and it didn't feel like sand. A closer look and I could see that they were eggs. I think it's bad to have the eggs in the open air, they where only out for a second before I realized what it was. I wasn't to sure what to do so I put the eggs in an egg tumbler. My 2.5 gallon tanks are being used, I also knocked some of the eggs off the slate. Not to sure How this will work out But maybe I'll get lucky and have some fry.    I do like the white sand in there tank. I think the rams also like the sand. they dig little pits in it all the time. The only problem is there eggs look exactly like the sand.   

[b125killer]

So far things are going good in the egg tumbler. I had to clean out a few bad eggs but it's looking promising. I'll know tomorrow for sure. The should be wigglers by then. 

[Mugwump]

Cool.....good luck..

[b125killer]

I have wigglers I almost can't believe the egg tumbler worked. I turned the air up a little to video them better. If you look hard you can see them wiggling I have to be careful with that tumbler. I can suck the fry through the screen. 

 

[Jdmcfast]

Good luck Scott! I wish I had the tank space to raise some of mine they keep spawning but are in a community tank where the eggs don't make it too long:-[

Josh