I got wigglers from the St. Isabel/ Rio Negro. The Pinoy leopard/ Zebra spawned. and Koi pair #2 spawned today. I'm thinking of pulling the pinoy spawn. I have been waiting for them to spawn for some time. I wasn't really sure it was a male/female. The koi are on there own this time. I'm sure they will eat the eggs by morning.
...those Koi just might surprise you ;D....especially if you don't have room for any more fry ;D
That Pinoy spawn will be a beaut'....lots of TLC with that dark gene and PB....I have vinegar eels if you need them.....??
I pulled the Pinoy spawn. I have been waiting to long for them to do anything. They can have the next spawn. As far as room goes I just set up another 40b. I also have a few people coming over tomorrow to look at some fish. One lady is looking for a black lace veil pearlscale. She said she would stop and see if I have anything she likes. I probably do, most non fish people don't know what there looking at anyways.
How do you care for the vinegar eels? I might be interested if it's not much work.
Quote from: b125killer on June 21, 2014, 09:15:59 PM
How do you care for the vinegar eels? I might be interested if it's not much work.
A gallon jar ....50/50 red vinegar and water...toss in a slice of apple....culture....dim/dark lighting...that's it.......refill with water/vinegar as you use them......start a new jar culture when you want, or for back up.................
The koi still have eggs. The female is tending to them this time too. Maybe they'll actually raise this batch.
Quote from: b125killer on June 22, 2014, 02:58:35 PM
The koi still have eggs. The female is tending to them this time too. Maybe they'll actually raise this batch.
Their siblings are mostly all raising..... ;D....
All my fish seem to have taken a vacation. No signs of breeding in any of my tanks ever since that 55g exploded on me. Kind of makes me happy as I am down a tank....but watch out when that $1 per gallon sale kicks in next weekend!
Quote from: EverythingAquatic on June 22, 2014, 06:05:13 PM
All my fish seem to have taken a vacation. No signs of breeding in any of my tanks ever since that 55g exploded on me. Kind of makes me happy as I am down a tank....but watch out when that $1 per gallon sale kicks in next weekend!
LOL....that dang $1/gal sales bites us all in the rear.. ;D....it's just too daggone tempting....
They still have there eggs ;D
St. Isabel/Rio Negro spawn three days old.
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Pinoy leopard/zebra eggs day 1. Should be wigglers tomorrow. I'm excited about this spawn.
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You're on a roll....love it.....I've been experimenting with using peroxide past days one/two....I reduced it to just a 1/2 cap for the whole 2 1/2 gal with the water change.........working perfectly...fewer loss's than even acriflavin..... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D.....and no flushing the chem's out either...peroxide dissipates on it's own.... :D
I'll have to try it, on the next spawn. I don't want to mess with the pinoy spawn. Just do what I know works for me.
Quote from: b125killer on June 22, 2014, 08:33:35 PM
I'll have to try it, on the next spawn. I don't want to mess with the pinoy spawn. Just do what I know works for me.
Bingo....
The koi spawn turned white, Not to sure why. They didn't eat it. I had to pull it and clean off the slate.
The pinoy went to wigglers. And that was all. They were doing good until I took them off the slate. Then they all died. But they looked like a little comma the day before they died. I took everything out and used aquarium salt to scrub the tank. Than rinsed that out. Then cleaned the tank, heater and plastic filter parts with peroxide. I squeeze the sponges out in tap water then microwave them to kill anything on it.
After all that I seen that the plats spawned. So I figure it would be good to see if I cleaned everything well enough. So I pullled there spawn. We'll see if I did a good thing or not shortly.
The St Isabel / Rio Negro spawn is doing great. Everyone is up, swimming and munching on bbs.
Just looked at the plat spawn. There looking good a few white eggs but nothing major yet.
...good luck with em.....things seem to be coming around for ya...cool... ;D
Yep, my koi fry are growing nicely. I lost a lot more then I would of liked. And I haven't seen any with orange ventral fins yet but there still small. Eb babies are growing nicely.I also gave a few friends some of Ed's koi. I did have a spawn of long fin BN's. Not sure why but he kicked the eggs out of the cave. I seen the angel fry swimming with pleco eggs. That sucked but it was kind of funny seeing the fry carrying the big pleco eggs around.
I have platinum wigglers. I lost a lot of of them but ther might of been a lot of peroxide in there too. I'm happy to see something living in there. Now let's see if I can get them to free swim.
Super., good luck...remember that peroxide should dissipate in 12 hrs, or less, it shouldn't have hurt them.....now you can lower the dose to 1/2 cap per the whole 2 1/2 gal tank, and they'll do fine.... I have three batches of fry growing that I did that way, the survival rate boomed......it's just enough to keep bacteria at bay.....you can stop when you plop the little sponge in there....
Good luck Scott. ;D
Thanks guy's. I did put a little peroxide in today. I didn't put it in at the beginning, I probably should of but I just cleaned it with the peroxide so I figured there should be plenty left over. Once the plats and wild cross go into a bigger tank I'm going to clean all the breeding supplies.
I have 3 spawns being working right now. The plats, the Mana x and a Mana X x Plat. All are in the community tanks. Since I've been dis-infecting my set up to get rid of any bad stuff I did not have the slates in the tanks so they spawned on the glass, the intake tube and a heater electrical wire. :o lol ;D.
The plats have been taking good care of the spawn on the glass so if they get them to the point where they are going to free swim I'll try to pick off a few. 8)
The rest I really have no hope for. 8)