meggy

babies are now 6 days old. Loads of them!! Looking more like fish than pieces of hair with eyes! The dad is busily building another bubblenest in another tank which is not going to get him anywhere right now. One spawn at a time is all i can handle! Thinking tomorrow I might give them some baby brineshrimp. They are looking big enough to tackle some!

Hi Alan, Thier water isn't much over that..the tank isnt quite half full and I did notice one that made it to the bottom spring back up to the top..i might syphon out a little more though. Thanks for that..will go do it before work. Have a great day all

Thanks Robbo..I'll try this morning to curb my enthusium and just post this the once :lol: ..gonna be hard though... Today we have babies, lots and lotsa little hairlike jumping babies, falling from the nest and leaping back up. The dad is watching and saving the ones that don't bounce back up straight away. There didn't look to be that many eggs when i had my nose pressed up against the tank looking at them...but now i see all the tails theres a few more than i thought. Now to keep them all alive!

oops..sorry bout the double up on posts..said it didnt work the first time i submitted it. IT WAS WRONG!! :lol:

day 2... So far, so good. Still have eggs. Unfungused ones! The dad has moved them all to one area of the bubblenest and keeping a very close eye on them. Still spitting lots of bubbles into the nest. It is HUGE! The dad is an orangey/red crowntail and the mum is purpleish (sometimes she looks plain with just a hint of colour but in the right light she's very very purple)..she came from a turquoise dad and a red cambodian mum. Not going to speculate on colours here til I have some live babies to feed! (trying so hard not to get too excited..its not working though) I don't know anything about fishy genetics although i'd like to learn. Been reading a lot about it..but retaining what i've read is the hard part. I'm afraid the fish bug has bit real hard this time..I'm busting my guts to get back to the fish shops and find more fish i just HAVE to have! What a great place this is...none of my friends will listen to me getting excited over my fish..they just think im insane :-? Thank's guys

day 2... So far, so good. Still have eggs. Unfungused ones! The dad has moved them all to one area of the bubblenest and keeping a very close eye on them. Still spitting lots of bubbles into the nest. It is HUGE! The dad is an orangey/red crowntail and the mum is purpleish (sometimes she looks plain with just a hint of colour but in the right light she's very very purple)..she came from a turquoise dad and a red cambodian mum. Not going to speculate on colours here til I have some live babies to feed! (trying so hard not to get too excited..its not working though) I don't know anything about fishy genetics although i'd like to learn. Been reading a lot about it..but retaining what i've read is the hard part. I'm afraid the fish bug has bit real hard this time..I'm busting my guts to get back to the fish shops and find more fish i just HAVE to have! What a great place this is...none of my friends will listen to me getting excited over my fish..they just think im insane :-? Thank's guys

Came home from work today to find my female fighter had escaped the partition i set up in the tank..and my new male tending over his bubblenest full of eggs! Removed the female (with no nipped fins or damage) back to her tank and left dad to it. Was a little surprised at the speed and ease with which this all happened considering i thought i was taking it all a little slower..obviously they had other plans! Keeping my fingers crossed that all goes well and they don't get eaten or fungused. The one and only other sucessful spawn i had was 9 months ago..and the mum is one of those babies. I'm one very excited person right now <---- Meggy's goofy grin from ear to ear!

pegasus..the addiction has well and truly taken hold again...reading this forum over the past few weeks has just intensified my need for more fish..the tanks are there..in the garage...waiting to be filled! i doubt this "surgery" is going to be therapeutic for me..the more i read..the more i want. My friends have watched my tanks dissappear over the past 12 months..due to lack of time...and now slowly watching them make a comeback. My friend commented today about the addition of the fighter boy on the kitchen bench..."they are coming back arnt they meggy" LOL oh well...theres a lot worse things i could be addicted to!!!!

LOL..nothing wrong with that craig...i have 3 kids rooms that have amazing potential as space for tanks...just have to make the kids believe the garage is a bedroom...KIDDING...LOVE THE KIDS...but they are at risk of having tanks as features in thier rooms! I had a hex tank that i didnt like..the plants wouldnt grow..i got sick of being up to my armpits in water...but as soon as i gave it away i regretted it. would kill to have it back! would really make a fabulous seahorse home. i could very easily inundate myself with aquatic pets...trying to have some control...really really dont have the time to be doing constant water changes and forever rinsing off baby brine shrimp...right now i get away with BBS every other day...water changes weekly...and sitting proudly watching over my fishy family daily.

hi chris..thanks for that...wishing my fishy boy luck..the girl i picked for him is a stroppy lass..but shes real pretty. dont you just hate it when you want to do everything at once and cant decide which to do first. I want discus too...but from what ive heard..they need more time than i have to give. one day ill just do it all and to hell with everything else

Hi Ash...where in nth cant??? if you dont mind me asking. and craig...good luck to you...I think i'll stick with the ones im sure of..for now anyway..would love something a little more exotic..and more of a challenge..but funds restrict my fishkeeping at present. BUT...I did see some seahorses today in critterkingdom that have my name on them. WOW...what awesome creatures...fascinated with them. Think i'll be working toward owning some of them one day!!

ummm..maybe time to admit i've been one of those awful cyber lurkers for weeks craig :oops: lol. ive read everything and reading it all made me want more involvement again...more fish..more tanks..and the excitement of a succesful spawn again. contemplating getting guppys again..the ease with which they procreate is outstanding..and the fact they give birth to live babies is something ill always enjoy...needing to be dragging out one of those tanks!!!

hey guys..thanks for the welcomes it will be quite a few weeks before my big guy gets let loose with the lady...ive just moved recently and in a real mess...but those tanks in the garage wont be out there long...always have space for another tank in the house! Who needs a couch..or that wallunit! Redwood aquatics is my favourite fishplace..lots of knowledge and very nice people...i can "browse" in there for hours. another is critterkingdom in stanmore rd..thats where my big guy came from today..first place ive seen crowntails in chch. animates, im not a big fan of..but just my opinion..so i dont go there. i prefer the more relaxed friendly atmosphere of the smaller places where i can hang round ogling the fish at my own pace...(which is always slow). organism on ilam rd is fantastic...small..but great! have fun in the chch fishspots!! Meggy 8)

hey all, quick hello from me to all you fine fishy peoples...i have only 3 tanks set up right now. A 200lt tank with..a couple of angels, couple of gouramis, a solo swordtail, solo krib (due to his mate passing on) and my pride and joys, my 2 female bettas from my one and only spawn. very empty tank right now but working on it. second tanks is 100 lt with 3 peppered catfish and lots of caves...and 3rd..set up today, with my new beautiful male crowntail fighter. He is a beauty. i think i love em!! :0) I also have another 4 or 5 tanks in the garage awaiting my addiction to kick in fulltime again (that and a let up of other commitments) Been clamouring for another male siamese fighter for ages now..and bit the bullet today and did it. wanting to spawn fighters again..will give the handsome guy a few weeks to settle into his new home and then introduce him to one of my lovely ladies and see if they hit it off! I feel the addiction taking over again..thought i had it under control..but i was wrong. i could have bought 50 fish home with me today. well...really cool to have somewhere to come read stuff from fellow kiwis with issues that relate to our neck of the woods. thanks guys for a lot of interesting reading! Meggy