Fingers crossed!

[DylanJkfish]

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.

[Mugwump]

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... congrat's 

[DylanJkfish]

Thanks Jon, really hoping they do haha parent raisers are sooo much easier :p

So far so good spawn is still there with only 6 white eggs. Should be wigglers today!!!

[Mugwump]

I like the raisers too...but because it's so fascinating to watch them....mesmerizing...

[DylanJkfish]

I must agree!

Before the tanks were moved to the basemt me and my mom would watch them for ever!

[DylanJkfish]

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!

[Mugwump]

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...... .....

[DylanJkfish]

Haha yes they sure are... They are truly magnificent Jon!!

[DylanJkfish]

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.

[Mugwump]

LOL...I'll bet they're tending free swimmers, ?....Having other fish in the tank makes them super prorective...

[DylanJkfish]

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.

[Mugwump]

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... 

[DylanJkfish]

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!

[Mugwump]

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.

[DylanJkfish]

Used to have a large micro worm culture but forgot to change it and it died....