Aqua Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 OMG! :lol: :lol: My white clouds have multiplied!! There's a swarm of little see-though things with large black eyes all over my tank! I wasn't terribly prepared for this... :oops: I honestly thought it'd take a little while longer than a week for the WCMM to get to it!! :lol: Just thought I'd share with you all... thanks Caryl!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 Good work Aqua Look after them and stick to what works! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 Gee - that was fast! ssshhh, don't tell anyone, but I'm actually at work! Thank God for long periods between calls!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 about how many fry u got ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 errrrrr, hard to tell, the blighters keep moving!! There was a small school of about 10 floating in one corner, and multitudes more attached to the sides of the tank, maybe 20 - 30 or so per face?? Sooo many! What's good to use as a food? I was considering rushing to Newmarket this afternoon to get liquid food, as the Pet Shop doesn't have any brine shrimp, and they'd take a while to get edible, wouldn't they?? I'm such a newbie when it comes to this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 Hi Aqua.... Congrats on the fry. Green water is a pretty good start for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 i use cook egg york mixed with water for mine and i got abut 300 of them at the mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 Green water is a pretty good start for them. Pity I dunt have any... Cooked egg yoke? so I just boil an egg, and mulch the yoke up with water, and put the liquid in the tank?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 That's right. I used a few layers of mutton cloth to strain the yolk through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 hrrmm.. that could prove interesting to obtain.... I have some old thin shirts??? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 No only expensive silk shirts will work. Kidding, I'd imagine they'd work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 Careful - you'll give me a coronary!!! hehehe I'm not *that* highly-strung... honest!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 You will be once their egg sacs have been absorbed when its up to YOU to feed them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 lol I do believe that may have already happened... I hadn't really been looking at the tank for the past week, and now there's a lot of nearly invisible wriggly things in there... :lol: Ah well, the petshop should sell me enough liquid food to last a lifetime anyway What's the going rate on selling WCMM to retailers?? I was thinking maybe $0.50 each... And how long are they tiny for? As in, how long before they're as big as the ones you'd buy?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 WCMM sell for as little as $1.95 In CHCH so I wouldn't think you'd get much for them. I think shops take them once their big enough to survive in a comm. tank. About a week ago I was asking the same questions as you (regarding zebra danios). Here's some advice - don't worry about how much to sell them for until you have some to sell, because fry are vulnerable things, I lost ALL of my zebra danios on Wed and Thurs so now I have to start again. Hope you have better luck than me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 hehehe thanks! yeah, I'm pretty much leaving the fish to it... That way I can't be blamed! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 Actually breeding the fish isn't that difficult. Keeping the fry alive is. Watch the egg yoke as it pollutes a tank very easily. If you haven't got any green water near your place (any stock troughs?) the liquifry from the shops would be best. Note there are 2 varieties - one for egglayers and one for livebearers. Someone I know who has bred over 100 different species says she swears by Tetramin E (if I remember the name correctly). Congratulations and I hope you manage to get them to a saleable size! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 hehehe stock troughs??? Sorry love, I live in the suburban garden.... I don't even have a lawn!! Yeah, the pet store mentioned Liquifry for both egglayers & livebearers... Obviously I'd be using the livebearer Tetramin E.... will keep it in mind and if anything goes wrong, I'll blame Caryl - she started it!! hehehe :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 Place a jar of aquarium water on a sunny windowsill..... two days.... green water Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 Ooooh, that sounds good Oh yeah, I bought a tube of Liquid food for the fry, and they seem to love it - almost as much as the adults do lol! And I think maybe even the fry are pushing more babies out! There are SOOO many babies!!!!! I think that even if half of them die, I'm going to have one seriously overstocked tank.... maybe 5 or so can go to the tropical tank, and the rest can get sold/given away... Anybody in the Auckland area interested if my babies make it through the first month or so?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted February 8, 2003 Report Share Posted February 8, 2003 If you are going to blame me if it all goes wrong I assume you are also going to give me the profits when it goes right and you sell them? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2003 hahahahaha! Errrr..... maybe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2003 How long does it normally take for the fry to reach a suitable size to be moved to other tanks to live? I want to move maybe 10 or so into my tropical tank, and I have a few friends that would be interested in taking as many fish off my hands as they could get away with It's going to get interesting, because if say, half of the fry survive, the tank they're all in is going to be hugely overstocked lol - it's only 26L!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis Posted February 11, 2003 Report Share Posted February 11, 2003 if u do it carefuly i done it when they a day old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua Posted February 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2003 they're a bit small @ 1 day!! I just want to know how long it takes until they're a reasonable size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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