What are you breeding?

[stevem]

i loved to see them
how big do these get

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by stevem

i loved to see them
how big do these get

Mine are about 3.5" I don't think they get more then 4ish inches. I have 6+ babies so I'll be bringing some to BAS when they are large enough. Got a picture but the little guy is on a reddish slate rock and hard to see. They're very good at hiding. I'll try and get some pics today of the ones I was able to get out and into a 10g. I've been syphoning out their tank every night to keep it clean and pick up uneaten food. They eat zuchinni and algae wafers. Also when I had them in a breeder net box I floated baby spinach leaf and they ate that too. I would find 1 or 2 of them on the bottom of the leaf. They are a nice orange color.

[stevem]

that sound cool
love to see them
I did feed mine romaine lettuce also
they need greens

[Bonnie]

Yup, that and a piece of wood.

[Bonnie]

A friend from another forum gave me a guppy/endler snakeskin hybrid, one male and 4 females. He bred them just to see what they'd turn out like. I'll be having plenty of those soon enough! Don't do live bearers but they were very pretty and free

Darn can't put a pic in of them, it's asking for a URL..

[stevem]

driftwood also helps them digest

[Bonnie]

The fry are really growing! I have 1/2" babies now, they're from the older group. Maybe by April I'll be able to bring a few to the auction.

[stevem]

that would be great, keep in mind This meeting is a 50/50 on live all stock

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by stevem

that would be great, keep in mind This meeting is a 50/50 on live all stock

I know but I think they're still too small to bring. We'll see what happens Friday, it's a week away maybe a bit more growth. If not I think definately April.

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[MRLIMPET]

I've had male smaragdina that grew up together get along very well until the day that they don't, when all hell breaks loose. This was in a 10g grow out tank; perhaps in a roomier tank with broken lines of sight they'd be more tolerant of each other.

One of my "female" Macropodus ocellatus is now tending a nest full of fry! Sexing them is very tricky when they're young. The male is very tolerant of the female, & even lets her help round up stray fry. The little ones should become free swimming tomorrow, when I'll remove the parents & begin feeding smelly infusoria.

[elcue]

So far there haven't been any casualties w/the smaragdina. The males will circle each other, flaring their fins, but another fish will get in the way and then it's over. I did move the occelata to another tank, maybe now he'll hold the eggs.

Here's a pic of some males, there are more on my profile page

[dsuperman]

Those look like happy, robust fish in your album. Nice work.

[elcue]

Thank you. Some are quite the little fatties, the female microsynodontis sp1 are full of eggs. Hopefully this time I'll save some. Last time they released the eggs I missed it - don't know if they spawned or just released/feasted on the eggs.

I can't figure out the posting of pics on this thing. Sometimes I can see the pic in the thread w/out signing on, and then sometimes I can't. Can you see the pic w/out signing on?

[dsuperman]

I can see it without signing on, i'm using "use.com" as my host. I can't figure out how to get a photo on at all.

[Astchiefy]

Wow that's cool i never got mine to sown although they sometimes locked in the mating stance. What's the secret?

[elcue]

Those two in the pic spawn regularly, but success requires a peaceful tank, with nothing to eat the eggs/fry. Most of the eggs were eaten by the cory cats. Atsy, the adults are spoken for, but would you like some young ones? two months old, maybe 1.5 in.

[dsuperman]

They seem rare on AB. One auction only right now asking $50 for 5? [i think ].

[elcue]

Originally Posted by dsuperman

They seem rare on AB. One auction only right now asking $50 for 5? [i think ].

He has a few nice auctions for mouthbrooders. Too bad I don't ship

[dsuperman]

With nice fish like that, maybe you should.

[stevem]

Maybe males not mature enough yet

[dsuperman]

These guys are old. Kinda quick for them,two weeks later the silver dollars spawned again. Saved around 20 again,half turned blue from methylene,we'll see about the others.

[elcue]

Originally Posted by dsuperman

These guys are old. Kinda quick for them,two weeks later the silver dollars spawned again. Saved around 20 again,half turned blue from methylene,we'll see about the others.

They may be old, but might just be hitting their stride. The only references to maturity that I find, comment on size , not age. So what happened?? are you babying babies?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metynnis_argenteus :

In most cases, sexual maturity sets in when M. argenteus grow to around four inches long, though this remains variable. Among a given shoal, the males tend to become active before the females and spend a period of time sparring while the females look on. When the females do eventually become sexually active, courtship and spawning in a healthy shoal kept under optimum conditions often become a daily activity. M. argenteus are prolific, group-spawning egg scatterers which show little if any interest in their own young. They scatter eggs among fine-leaved plants as well as directly on to the substrate during a characteristic, side-by-side, shimmying courtship ritual. It is a common practice among breeders to put a layer of marbles on the bottom of the tank if breeding is desired in a community tank. The idea is that the eggs fall between the gaps in the marbles where they can develop in peace: other fish can't get to them during that vulnerable period and when the fry do eventually rise they are equipped with a chance of dodging predators

[dsuperman]

<object width="420" height="315"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/gSESSsPc2o4?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/gSESSsPc2o4?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> I've read ten plus years for silver dollars and that they can lay 2,000 eggs. Male no. 2 was eating the eggs faster than i could grab them, still i bet there wasn't 50 eggs total.http://youtu.be/gSESSsPc2o4

Those betta smaragdina spawned within days due to your super conditioning. I wasn't paying attention, i think i see 3 fry [3 again?].

[elcue]

Hey three's a good number. Did the others not eye up? NEXT TIME...

Good news on the smaragdina - they're nice fish

[KC2PED]

I often breed contempt

[elcue]

dsuperman - Your female Flowerhorn has spawned! It's posted in two other threads, but for some reason not this one Dr Price is going to be up to his ears in baby brine

[dsuperman]

Thats great news! Merry Christmas! Sounded like he had them conditioned really well. The female looked beautiful last i saw her, i bet his male is super good looking.

[robertprice]

The eggs hatched last night. They were on a vertical rock, so they fry rolled down into the gravel which the female is patrolling.

[elcue]

QUOTE=robertprice;4401]The eggs hatched last night. They were on a vertical rock, so they fry rolled down into the gravel which the female is patrolling.[/quote]

Nice

Let the seemingly endless cycle of water changes/brine shrimp hatching begin!