elusive_fish Posted September 26, 2009 Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 Hi all, its been a while since I lurked around these parts. For the last 3 weeks or so I've had a greshakei that has been holding and tonight I stripped her and put the babies in a 2ft tank. There looks to be 13 around 1cm in length, all looking pretty damn skinny and just sitting near the surface of the tank. What is best way to care fore and feed these little guys? Seeing as I had to destroy my tank to catch the ice-blue, I caught my holding johanni at the same time and she is now in the fry tank too. I couldnt believe this fish was holding... its only like 5/6 cm itself. Its funny watching the power plays that happen in the tank after you 'rearrange the furniture' eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firenzenz Posted September 26, 2009 Report Share Posted September 26, 2009 The fry should take some flake food. Do you know the fathers of both lots of fish, how likely is it that they are hybrids? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elusive_fish Posted September 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 The 'boss' of the tank is a big, colourful greshakei. He has been trying his hardest to lure the girl-shakeis into his lare... so im pretty sure of their parentage. I cant say for sure with the johannis... I have electric yellows in the tank and I guess they would potentially be interested in a female johanni... but ive never seen them showing any interest before. I guess the only way I know is looking at the babies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elusive_fish Posted October 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 Ok, now I'm confused. As previously posted, I have a young johanni that is holding. I thought I knew who the dad was, as the biggest of the other johannis started going darker and has a faint blue horizontal stripe.... a male changing from the orange colour of the juvis/females. Or so I thought. Today I came home to find the 'male' holding eggs of its own! There are two other johannis of the same age in the tank, but both of them are quite orange. The other fish I have in the tank are: 6 electric yellows 1 bumblebee 1 demasoni around 10 greshakei 2 lionheads None of them have really shown any interest in the johannis, from what ive seen. Although the demasoni has been much more aggresive as of late (its only small still, about 4cm) My tank. I wish I could take a more flattering photo This is female johanni number one. And a greshakei fry photo bomber. This is the 'male' I guess the babies, if the eggs are fertilised must be hybrids then? What do I do with them in this case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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