Sophia Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 who, me or Ice222? I don't have any for sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice222 Posted June 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 I've only got 5 that I can sell at $10 each, and one of them you probably don't want, since it's a bit runty and doesn't look quite perfect. I've only bread them once so far, and have ended up keeping about half of them for future breeding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 who, me or Ice222? I don't have any for sale. Ice222 of course :facepalm: :lol: I've only got 5 that I can sell at $10 each, and one of them you probably don't want, since it's a bit runty and doesn't look quite perfect. I've only bread them once so far, and have ended up keeping about half of them for future breeding OK, I'll probably give it a miss for now, I kind of want to get a group of them together. But that's a good price you're selling them for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted June 13, 2011 Report Share Posted June 13, 2011 how many males and females are in that 5? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted June 18, 2011 Report Share Posted June 18, 2011 It's official, I have a fry! Found a tiny black sliver darting about in the water from the water change. Have sucked it out with a dropper and it looks like the photo from Day 4 or just after. Very tiny, and very fast :bounce: It may be a coincidence but this is the first I've found since I took the gourami out just under a week ago. I am so pleased :happy2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Posted June 18, 2011 Report Share Posted June 18, 2011 cool! :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted June 18, 2011 Report Share Posted June 18, 2011 even better, my husband found 2 more black fry in the water and then I found 2 transparent ones. So 5 in total. Those dastardly gourami predators - I knew it!! :bounce: :happy2: :happy1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshlikesfish Posted June 18, 2011 Report Share Posted June 18, 2011 Well done! :thup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice222 Posted June 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 Awesome ! Those naughty gouramis, both types of gourami I have are real food hogs. I find that CPDs can also eat their own fry/ eggs, but CPDs aren't very vicious at hunting them down like a gourami might be, and the fry can actually be pretty darn quick. Good luck with raising your fry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted June 19, 2011 Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 I'm still on my fry-high :happy2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted June 19, 2011 Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 When I saw this in the water change earlier I actually thought it was a dragonfly nymph. The only thing that gave it away was the angry swimming manner of a little fish. Here is a photo just taken of one of the fry. It appears to be sitting on the side of the glass in a most non-fishy manner. The finger is my little finger so you can see what a miniscule sliver it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice222 Posted June 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 What a little cutie . I find it pretty cool how the early days they just sit on the glass all day, then suddenly one day they're free-swimming, and never go back to sitting on glass again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted June 19, 2011 Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 It sat there for about half an hour, then my husband stomped past and it darted off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted June 19, 2011 Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 OOOHHH... let me know if you end up with enough to register a breeding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 19, 2011 Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 Cool! It's so small! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted June 19, 2011 Report Share Posted June 19, 2011 Awesome :happy1: :bounce: :happy2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 OOOHHH... let me know if you end up with enough to register a breeding certainly will, though now I will have to wait till I see a group of them swimming about, or if I suck 10 up in the water change at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Ssucked up another 2 tiny black fry in the water change today. Haven't seen any of the others grown more yet, not sure where they are, or IF they are still. I did discover a lot of ostracods in the dregs of the water change today while hunting for fry, there is definitely plenty of live food in the tank for the fry aside from what I put in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice222 Posted July 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 One trick to not suck up fry is to have a thumb over the end of the siphon where the water comes out into a bucket. By closing your thumb over the opening, you can control the flow of water and even completely stop it. Usually when I do suck up any fry, I manage to stop the flow quiuckly enough that they're able to swim back out of the tube themselves. I don't actually use a normal gravel siphon though, I find them annoying since you need water past a certain depth to start it. I just use a piece of hose and use something similar to a baster with a bigger pump to start the siphoning action. It's very useful since I have a lot of overly curious fish that don't seem to be afraid of the siphon :roll:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 That would be a good idea but I would need an arm span of about 4 metres long, my tank is a little high off the ground for that to work for me, even if I put the bucket on a chair. Often what I do is wave the bottom end around enough to scare them off and stir up the bottom so I can pick up the oto poop. :happy2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice222 Posted July 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 Ah that's a shame! I'm a lazy person, that's why the chairs and stools I need to wc my tanks end up sitting right next to the tanks where I need them. I even bought rounded pegs to clip the hoses in place while I siphon to leave a hand free to trim some plants while I'm at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted July 5, 2011 Report Share Posted July 5, 2011 ahhh for hands free siphon I have a hole drilled in the bucket big enough to put a cable tie through, and on the inside of the bucket is a little piece of hose. The cable tie goes through the hole, around the hose, and back out the hole, then closes on the outside of the hole and is locked in place by the end that is bigger than the hole. The siphon hose then feeds through the short bucket hose and always pours straight into the bottom of the bucket. ta daaaaaaaaaaa :smot: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 so for the last 2 weeks or so there have been 2 fry residing in the top level of the tank, now starting to go for adult food. Not sure what happened to the ones I sucked up in the water change though. Then this evening I found Fry 3 :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 Fry 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice222 Posted August 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 Fry 4 Gratz! More and more, I'm guessing they're all the same kind (CPDs)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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