prob about 7-10 days before hand....
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#21
Posted 03 September 2011 - 10:49 PM
prob about 7-10 days before hand....
#22
Posted 03 September 2011 - 11:15 PM
#23
Posted 04 September 2011 - 08:59 AM
Another tip is to put a pot/container of gravel with plants in your glass bottom tank. That way you get the benefit of bacteria in the gravel while still having the ease of syphoning the waste out of your tank during a water change.
#24
Posted 04 September 2011 - 10:35 AM
I think they don't really care as long as there is a nice cave to boof in lol
Cheers
Nick
#25
Posted 04 September 2011 - 07:48 PM
#26
Posted 04 September 2011 - 08:16 PM
Happy spawning
Nick
#27
Posted 05 September 2011 - 11:50 PM
I think they don't really care as long as there is a nice cave to boof in lol
LMAO .... havent heard the boof term in a long while!!!!....
like you said they will breed anywhere... but raising large numbers of fry in a glass bottom tank - just dosent work..... i have tried many times before..... but the little tackers are vulnerable to any sort of ammonia buildup... and as we all know it accumulates in the lowest place in your tank first....
i have had spawns with around a 100 fry hatching and have had the same number of fry grow up to 3-4cm... without any losses... so consistantly now i will never use bare bottoms with b/n fry....
#28
Posted 06 September 2011 - 02:00 PM
I think some ppl need to understand that yes u may have had success with different approaches (Bare bottom/Gravel), but after seeing Big Johnno's set up and the way he does his breeding, he knows what he is talking about....
He breed's plecos worth more than some set-ups ppl have alone...
BZ to u mate, I think the ppl that have seen what u have envy ur success....
Gareth
#29
Posted 06 September 2011 - 08:03 PM
#30
Posted 07 September 2011 - 12:30 AM
im open to new ideas by all means - im still learning everyday... watch and observe fish and their behaviour - like an instruction manual just written in a different language you need to decypher!!!
#31
Posted 07 September 2011 - 09:55 PM
#32
Posted 05 November 2011 - 12:52 PM
Edited by Cam85, 05 November 2011 - 12:54 PM.
#33
Posted 05 November 2011 - 01:02 PM
Cheers.
#34
Posted 05 November 2011 - 01:09 PM
#35
Posted 08 November 2011 - 10:12 PM
id prefer that
tom
#36
Posted 09 November 2011 - 12:18 AM
id prefer that
tom
what people dont understand is that bare bottoms with large numbers of fish creating a lot of poop are a time bomb waiting to go off for little fry.... ammonia = fish poop and wee.... ammonia is the number one killer of fish world wide.... and fry are the most vulnerable... and b/n prob the most vulnerable of any fry as they feed most of the time on the bottom of the tank... and the bottom of the tank is where all the poop and wee ends up and breaks down into ammonia.... sounds like a broken record doesnt it..... not to mention some of the harmful algae and slime that can grow on glass bottom tanks.... yes bigger b/n may not be affected by this but fry can die very quickly and in large numbers too...
how many can say they had 100 eggs and raised all the fry without any deaths in a glass bottom tank ??? and then do it consistantly ???
last time i post in this thread theres plenty of info in it so go back and read it all through
#37
Posted 09 November 2011 - 11:02 AM
As johnno said it's a learning experience and the day I know everything about fish is the day I'll stop keeping them, so I guess I'll keep fish forever!!
Cheers
Rigs
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