Hi All!
A Sunday morning news break! A new species for me!
About 3 weeks ago I purchased 4 Sparkling Gouramis from an LFS. They caught my attention with their movement style and delicate, intricate colorations. I set them up in a 1.5g globe that Linda had used for potpourii, no aeration or filtration, added some old fluourite substrate, vals, L. repens, frogbit, and placed on a lower bookshelf with an incandescent light. Fed them microworms (thank you Lori and Aron for the starter culture), flake food, frozen daphnia, and decapsulated BSEs. Temp around 75-78 daytime and 68-70 nighttime, heated by the incandescent light.
Today I have 10 -15 fry! I have now moved the tank to an area which will receive only daylight from a skylight over our fireplace and the temp will stay fairly steady. I don't know what the temp will settle out to be at the moment because it will be sitting on our tv cable box.
A happy Sunday morning in my home!
Congrats !...that's a pleasant surprise that'll make your day.... ;D ;D
Congratulations.....interesting occurance based on the set up. Keep us posted. :)
Interesting occurrence??? I thought they pretty much lived in stagnant areas with plants covering water's surface...! That's why I set them up that way! I think maybe I'll go read some more about them!
It's always a good day when you find baby fish! Congratulations Ron.
Dennis
Quote from: Ron Sower on April 07, 2013, 03:44:50 PM
Interesting occurrence??? I thought they pretty much lived in stagnant areas with plants covering water's surface...! That's why I set them up that way! I think maybe I'll go read some more about them!
I agree. I was thinking more along the lines of how there are usually high tech set ups and much written about how to breed various species. You did everything right.
I got lucky! And I define luck as ''Preparation meeting up with Opportunity''. I'll take luck any day over ability!
Congratulation on the fry.
Getting lucky is the name of the game
Awesome! Congrats! :)
The plants are good but I'd move them to a bigger setup if I were you.
How are the fry doing???
Not so well. My little experiment of leaving the fry in the globe and removing the parents left what I thought would be plenty of room and micro-organisms to feed the fry. I think there are about 5 left. The are very hard to see amongst the plants. They are about 1/4 inch long.
The parents are doing well. They are in a 5g SpecV holding tank. Eventually I will reset the tank in the room with the rest of our fish.
That's too bad..try and snag some vinegar eels somewhere.....Aron may have a culture??