Karackle's guppy/endler experiment RIP - taken down in preparation for moving

[Scott S.]

Hey all, this seems an appropriate place for my first post, because I know a little something about this. The rest of the site I am still reading and learing LOTS. When I had a FW tank many years ago I had fancy tailed guppies and livebearers in the same tank. I ended up with some fish that had the body and markings of the endlers with the tails of the guppies. They were truly a gorgeous fish and something that I have thought about doing again. Now that I am back in the freshwater world. I did saltwater for awhile.

You are going to end up with some really cool looking fish, and I agree with everyone else, we NEED to see pictures when they are big enough.
Scott

[Karackle]

Thanks! Wow all the encouragement is great, makes me super excited!! I'll have to pass it on to the fish! hopefully i'll have babies soon! And then pics soon after that!

[Karackle]

Not too much to update at the moment, the flame moss is growing, I put some floaters in, unfortunately I think most of the RRF I got sat in the PO too long because it's looking rather brown, but I'll give it a chance, siphon out what stops floating and sinks and hopefully a small bit will recover! I threw some duckweed in too. And my guppy grass from LauraLee (who generously threw in some extras including possibly more RRF) should be here today or tomorrow. So when they drop, the fry should have lots of places to hide! I have some pretty chubby females in there now! Should be soon i hope

[Complexity]

Your RRF will probably make it. Even a small piece should grow. If not, I have some from the generosity of Tex Gal. I asked for just 3 pieces to try it out, and she sent me tons more! They're growing nicely, putting out the roots they are known for.

Let us know when the new fry are dropped! Take pictures so we can see the plants and fry!

[Scott S.]

I was going to say, what are you waiting for. Put 'em together, throw on a little Barry White and let's get it on.....

[Karackle]

Vicki - Thanks! I had to take most of it out today, it was all brown LauraLee said that she has RRF and that if I didn't want it I would probably want to clean the plants before putting them in the tank, so I'll wait and see if any comes with the plants she sent me, if not I might take you up on that offer I'll let you know! And don't worry, as soon as the fry drop I will definitely take pictures!!!

Scott S - hahahaha if for some reason the females are not pregnant I will definitely try some Barry White next time! heehee

[Karackle]

Well so far I've been unable to find a mortar and pestle BUT

1 small bowl from Target


1 round headed peg from a craft store


and VOILA a makeshift mortar and pestle for less than $3.00


heehee should do well for the baby guppies AND my bamboo shrimp

[Karackle]

Oh also, updates on the tank, not much to report. Females continue to get fatter I think so hopefully there will be babies soon
The duckweed is proliferating unbelievably quickly in this tank, the flame moss is continuing to grow and i think the guppy grass has already started to grow, hopefully the plantlife will keep the fish happy

[Karackle]

Well, I apologize for the picture quality, but just wanted to post some updated pics with a bunch of floating plants (guppy grass and red foxtail as well as duckweed). Unfortunately the red root floater from TexGal sat too long at the post office during the thanksgiving holiday and therefore didn't make it so I'll have to get my hands on some more). I need to clean some algae off the glass that just started appearing in the past couple of days. Flame moss is doing well.

Sorry, no babies yet.

Also, a couple changes I made, there is now a submersible heater and a sponge filter in the tank, I took out the box filter, left the blue corner filter in to seed the sponge filter. I'd like to pick up a small HOB I think once the sponge has been in there a while and gets established. I might just grab a nano HOB, I want it more for flow and as a place to add the crushed coral than as extra filtration, the sponge filter should do a good enough job with that, and it will take up less room than 2 in tank filters.



added a dark sheet to the background:


Enjoy!

*edit* wow algae on the glass shows up a lot more in pics than I thought! I'll get to cleaning that....um....now.

[Complexity]

Originally Posted by Karackle

1 round headed peg from a craft store

Now that's using your head!

Or is that the peg's head?

The only thing that you'll have trouble with is the smooth bowl will allow the pieces to shoot out when you try to crush them, but it's not so bad. I did something similar before I found mine.

[Karackle]

Originally Posted by Complexity

Now that's using your head!

Or is that the peg's head?

Thanks! I guess it's both

Originally Posted by Complexity

The only thing that you'll have trouble with is the smooth bowl will allow the pieces to shoot out when you try to crush them, but it's not so bad. I did something similar before I found mine.

HAHAHA yeah, i've experienced that a little already, luckily the bowl, despite being small, is much larger than I need for crushing a few pieces of food up, so the shooting pieces slide right back down into the bottom of the bowl for the most part

[Karackle]

Well I cleaned the glass in all my tanks today, inside and out, so I decided to take some new pictures of the breeding tank that don't look quite as dirty As you can see, despite the look in the previous pics, the water is nice and clear and all the fish are happy Still no babies though...sigh....i hate waiting!

[Karackle]

I was peeking at the tank this morning and noticed some movement near the heater. On further inspection I saw a baby! After looknig around some more I found at least 3 babies!

Now I'm a LITTLE worried about them because they were sort of resting on the bottom instead of swimming around and hiding in the plants, but they were all swimming around some, and don't look they have yolk sacs that are too big or anything, so I'll have to see how they're doing when I get home!

2 of the female endlers are on the small side so I'm thinking that's why I only saw a few babies, because it was one of them that was looking thin this morning.

I'm SO EXCITED! I hope they do well!!!!

I hope this means the other ladies will be popping out babies soon!

[lauraleellbp]

Congrats!!

Can't wait till they're big enough to show off their colors and get some pics!

[Karackle]

Thanks!

I know! Me neither!!! I Can't wait to see what they look like!