The koi I got from Jon have finally started to pair up.
Ive got one pair so far thats been teasing me for the past week with slightly lowered tubes, lots of cleaning, and a very fat female!
Hoping for their first spawn really soon :D
That would be a nice Christmas present ;D.....feed em some more hi-protein food. bloodworms,etc, and do a cool water change....boomba...they'll be off....good luck Dylan....I have two pairs of parent raisers from the same spawn... ;D
Well the magic has happened :D not sure when last night but so far there is only 1 white egg.
I will upload pictures of the pair ad their spawn later today!
CONGRATS!!!!! cant wait to see the Pic's
Congratulations!
Any pics yet?..... ;D
They are doing an amazing job. The are cleaning away any white eggs and will not allow the other fish past a certain point in the tank.
first 3 are the female
#3
heres the pair together
daddy caring for the eggs
other side of the male. Hes my favorite in th tank!
#7
just a close up of the spawn
Very nice....they may parent raise...do you have another tank to move the others to...??..You'll likely need a tank for them too.....LOL....an idea...got a divider?....that would do it until everyone could be moved are re-homed..
I have some egg crate that I may use until my blue silver pair is sold. Once I have room this pair will be going to a 30 gallon.
Rhat'll help a bit...any fry will try to swim through the holes..but mom/dad will keep that under control.....like I mentioned before, their siblings are parent raising..there's a very good chance that those will also... ;D congrat's ;D
Thanks Jon, really hoping they do haha parent raisers are sooo much easier :p
So far so good :D spawn is still there with only 6 white eggs. Should be wigglers today!!!
I like the raisers too...but because it's so fascinating to watch them....mesmerizing...
I must agree!
Before the tanks were moved to the basemt me and my mom would watch them for ever!
First spawn with such a young pair and the eggs have hatched into wigglers. Out of the entire spawn maybe 12 eggs turned white. They are doing amazing so far!
ahem....LOL....that's good stock, Dylan....and you must be treating them right....good job...so far out of that same batch, I have 2-3 parent raisers.....one is darn close, but the others were raising on the first spawn...... ;D.....
Haha yes they sure are... They are truly magnificent Jon!!
Quick update!
They have moved the fry farther up the intake and still doing a great job. One wiggler died but they are persistant to get it to stick.
I was able to get their tank set up with a cultured aquaclear filter (sponge over intake). Pair will be moved most likely late Wednesday or sometime Thursday because the fry will be free swimming by then and i doubt they will make it very long.
LOL...I'll bet they're tending free swimmers, huh?....Having other fish in the tank makes them super prorective... ;D
Im currently tending to about 74 free swimmers. I had to remove them so i could clean the tank all the fish are in. I left around 30 with them which has since then dwendled to i think 18 as they try to free swim (do to the other fish and the filter)
Ive got a 30 gallon set up for the pair but parameters arent where they should be, but hoping a w/c will do some good.
Cool.....you're keeping the fry in a smaller tank, right? That keeps them in a tighter group and in closer proximately to the food. ........Good luck, raise em strong like bull... ;D
Haha yep, ive got them in a 10 gallon and will be getting brine shrimp started really soon.
I will try to get ahold of my moms camera and get some pictures up late tomorrow or friday!
Sounds like a plan.....look around for a microworm culture in your area...they're handy and fry love em. The biggest plus is that the microworms live longer in the water than bbs..thus holding bacteria down a lot.
Used to have a large micro worm culture but forgot to change it and it died....
Welll. I dont feel like making a new thread so ill just update this one ^.^
As i type my pair is spawning, this will be #5 and they make it to day 3 of wiggling then slowely vanish. Soooo really hoping this one makes it >.<
Also I picked up the air pump thursday, just gotta have my dad help set it up haha.
Quote from: DylanJkfish on February 23, 2014, 03:14:52 PM
Welll. I dont feel like making a new thread so ill just update this one ^.^
As i type my pair is spawning, this will be #5 and they make it to day 3 of wiggling then slowely vanish. Soooo really hoping this one makes it >.<
Also I picked up the air pump thursday, just gotta have my dad help set it up haha.
you can suck out a few wiggles to hatch....leave the rest for the parents....are they in a bare bottom tank?