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Originally Posted by A Hill
Nice, mine are about ready to start breeding. I've got a crazy male heavy group so I'm going to have to pull the females and fatten them up then combine a few males with the females in a new tank as well.
How old are those fry around 3-5 weeks?
-Andrew
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The fry is about 6-7 weeks, I think I discovered them Aug 22... From what I loearned they will lay eggs over period of couple of days so you might end up with different size fry. I also would do couple of females per male. I did 2 female and one male in a 14g and after 2 weeks I found the fry. Good luck to you and I hope to see a journal
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Originally Posted by jackyuen89
very nice funky! Would you say you got at least 75 frys?
And what method did you used to breed them as im going to start a rack for breeding soon. Got the sponge filters. Just need the RACK and a few more tanks.
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Thanks
I wopuld say I got 30+ fry, I probably killed some, I discovered them when I was cleaning out a tank because I though my experiment didn't work out.
What I did is I set up a 14g tank with moss and some plants that I got from triming my 10g, you could say it was moderate to heavily planted, regular flourecent light that comes with the tank kits, no ferts or CO2. Once my levels were safe for fish I transfered 2 females and 1 male into it. I didn't do anything special, fed them regular food and some frozen blood worms and brine shrimp once or twice a week, I shaved the frozen blood worms so it would be small enough for them. Did some small water changes and just left them be. They were more skittish after the transfer, I think it's because they were seperated from the group, from my observations they feel more comfortable in groups of 6 or more so that's why I didn't bother them much. After 2 weeks I thought my experiment didn't work so I took out the parents and started cleaning out the tank when I noticed some wiggly thing which ended up being one of the fry
so I just dumped a bucket of water I took out back and within 2-4 days I got the fry you see, kept them for a while in the 14g without filter and with plants that I riped out floating at the top, then I transfered them to the small tank with sponge filter so I can see them better. I think that's pretty much covers it. Good luck to you and if you have any more questions feel free to ask
