Sounds like you're being a great dad What temperature did you set the breeding tank at?
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Posted by tunagirll on 06 October 2014 - 03:31 PM
Sounds like you're being a great dad What temperature did you set the breeding tank at?
Posted by tunagirll on 03 October 2014 - 07:31 PM
Don't panic - just add a little egg yolk. They are too small to eat microworms.
Posted by tunagirll on 01 October 2014 - 07:27 PM
Congrats But... where are the photos
Don't feed them until they are horizontal and free swimming. Then I normally start with a tiny amount of egg yolk - hard boil it, then take a small pinch and squash it in your fingers, then rinse it into a small bowl, then take a small amount of the dilute with a syringe and add it to the tank. If you add too much, your tank will foul. Feed 4-5 times a day. A pinch diluted into a small bowl will last a few days in the fridge.
Leave him in until you start seeing the population drop off - he will cull the deformed first babies for you and babysit the rest. Don't panic if you see him pick up mouthfuls of free swimmers - he will take up a passenger load and then spit them back into the nest.
Posted by tunagirll on 01 October 2014 - 07:48 AM
Posted by tunagirll on 29 September 2014 - 06:24 PM
Been a while, time for an update. First of all a caveat - these are not properly set up pictures and the tanks are a bit dirty as I haven't had time to sort them this weekend!
Before:
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Today:
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Found someone with red lotus, which I'm picking up shortly. It's going in on the left hand side of the stump.
Planted some Hemianthus callitrichoides in the front to make a carpet, can't remember what the orange topped one is in the back, I'm afraid! That was an impulse buy Also on impulse, couldn't go past the opportunity to nab some Elatine triandra which will also provide some carpeting around the soon-to-be-installed red lotus - this is the fine small leaved stem on the left. Pogostemon stellatus is the big feathery one at the back.
My crinum calimastratum wasn't meant to be in this tank, but I transplanted it as it looked a bit sad in the big discus tank without CO2 or ferts apart from tabs. Took the cleaning crew about 24 hours to make that bad boy clean as a whistle Have a major ongoing issue with green dust algae and BBA in this tank which I suspect I am losing, but still fighting the good fight.
Also the other tanks since I'm on a roll
The little 25 litre tank:
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Finally set this one up. Flame moss mats on the bottom from a small handful given to me by a generous forum member. The mats were sized and cut with an angle grinder to suit the tank. The golden vine is set up with Anubias nana, Java fern 'Windelov' which has lovely crinkly ends and some java 'Narrow Leaf' courtesy of Mike on the forum. A few of the ever-present blyxa japonica in the back, and a nice specimen of Echinodorus horizontalis (horizontal sword) in the front which was savagely cut back to nothing and is now growing back in place.
and Nigel's 30 litre tank:
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This tank is nearly a year old and well established; the Java 'Windelov' is the highlight and a favourite of mine A few small crypts on the side, some blyxa japonica at the back and a large amount of US fissidens at the front, which has just been pulled and rematted after 6 months growth (an inch!). This one still needs more plants, but I haven't decided what would be perfect in that little shadow space.
All tanks are on injected CO2, led lights and EI ferts with gravel substrate.
Posted by tunagirll on 29 September 2014 - 05:53 PM
haha congrats Mike, perfect setup just needed a bit of Fabio fabulousness
Posted by tunagirll on 29 September 2014 - 09:02 AM
Outstanding setup Fingers crossed for success this time around!
Here's a snap of Fabio
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Posted by tunagirll on 23 September 2014 - 06:05 PM
Unfortunately it's a common problem and some males just won't cut the mustard as dads.
If you're very keen, I can loan you my breeder male, he is an excellent dad and is a salamander dumbo.
Posted by tunagirll on 21 August 2014 - 02:30 PM
Posted by tunagirll on 16 August 2014 - 11:15 PM
I'm a world of Warcraft geek, played for 8 years.
Before that played Runescape for like 8 years haha.
I'm into guild wars 2 now
I played WoW since vanilla, but lost interest when MoP came out... Played EVE Online, SWTOR, LOTRO, and more recently ESO Online which I wanted to love but majorly sucked Never played Guild Wars though!
Posted by tunagirll on 15 August 2014 - 01:04 PM
Posted by tunagirll on 13 August 2014 - 03:45 PM
Greyscale/black & white would be good to try. I remember someone discussing a black/white theme a while back....
And here it is:
Hard to imagine your aboriginal themed idea... Would be interesting though im sure. Do you have any examples?
The greyscale/black/white theme would probably be best run with a moonlight setting as well, and you set off the balance with a single brightly coloured fish. There are actually some really handsome grey coloured fish about. Think a surreal 'moonscape' type setting - grey/powdery white sand, pitch black background, maybe to the point of making a thin internal wall and spraying it with matt black, nothing on the surface - and some lovely fish as a combination of blacks, greys and whites - and the one spot of colour. Probably a very long tank to emphasise the surface aspect.
The aboriginal theme - that would be a rather large poly sculpt of a high ledged sandstone cave with some handprint art 'blown' onto the surface to scale, maybe stick art of fish or the rainbow serpent... and then the trick would be to have this as a marine tank and stock it with a young group of Banggai cardinalfish. It would be extra cool to set it up with some drifting light rays dappling down through parts of the cave.
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