My CPD fry pictures :) (found more CPD eggs )

[sewingalot]

Originally Posted by funkyfish

Thank you

It is a pop bottle
I had to put them into something, but the fry got moved to the nursery tank with the others today. They so tiny that I can only see 3 of them but I hope they somewere in the moss hiding. The pop bottle was a pita to keep clean and I lost couple of fry. Now I am hoping the fry will be ok in the nursery tank. I need more tanks and a bigger house lol

You know you have too many fry when you need to use a pop bottle, lol!

[funkyfish]

Originally Posted by sewingalot

You know you have too many fry when you need to use a pop bottle, lol!

I definitely need to invest in couple more small tanks and counter space LOL

I also think that my fresh fry is gone from the nursery tank I can not find them and haven't seen them for couple of days now. I hope they somewhere in the moss, but today when I did a quick water change none came out of the moss. I hope they didn't become food for the bigger fry...
I guess you live and you learn
I also need to start moving some fry to 10g soon. I need to leave the bigger ones that I am holding for some people and the rest can move into 10g along with the shrimp... That will be my project for next week.

[Rob in Puyallup]

Funky,

What are you feeding the newly hatched fry? I have some surprise baby fish which may be zebra danios (or scarlet darios, or otos, or furcata rainbows, or threadfin rainbows or...) they came from a 29 gal tank filled with assorted species... anyway... what are you feeding them? LOL!

[funkyfish]

Originally Posted by Rob in Puyallup

Funky,

What are you feeding the newly hatched fry? I have some surprise baby fish which may be zebra danios (or scarlet darios, or otos, or furcata rainbows, or threadfin rainbows or...) they came from a 29 gal tank filled with assorted species... anyway... what are you feeding them? LOL!

I purchased some food from VisionQuest and then I just crushed it into very fine powder. My fry food mix was:
NLF small fish formula
Tetra min flakes
Arctic copepods
No carb micro pellet
Veg Flake
100% daphnia flake
On feeding times I would fill a little plastic measuring cup with tank water, put some food in, let it stand for a bit then I fill a measuring syringe with the mix and target feed them. I also bought some fry food from LFS. After couple of weeks I started adding decaped brine shrimp eggs to their diet, which they love.

You can always feed them infusoria and such but I wasn't successful with breeding those types of food myself so I had to do the above.
Hope that helps

Here is a link to food from VisionQuest. http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/sw...ods-added.html

[Rob in Puyallup]

Thanks for the info, Funky!

[funkyfish]

Originally Posted by Rob in Puyallup

Thanks for the info, Funky!

Anytime Always happy to help

[Karackle]

glad to hear the babies are doing well!!

[mayanjungledog]

Originally Posted by funkyfish

Here are some pictures of my fry and some eggs

Congratulations on your CPD breeding program! I've been following this thread as I've recently purchased a group of CPDs. They've been displaying spawning behavior in the past couple of weeks and just today, I saw some fry that I did not recognize. They looked like pictures of fry in this thread, so I am assuming they are CPDs, but I'm not 100% positive. The adults look like they may be spawning again, and I'm trying to find the eggs, but am not having any luck with that. Where are you finding the eggs? How big are the eggs? Where do you find they prefer to lay the eggs?

[LS6 Tommy]

Originally Posted by Rob in Puyallup

Funky,

What are you feeding the newly hatched fry? I have some surprise baby fish which may be zebra danios (or scarlet darios, or otos, or furcata rainbows, or threadfin rainbows or...) they came from a 29 gal tank filled with assorted species... anyway... what are you feeding them? LOL!

I have a 10 gal CPD/EDR tank that has had a few successful (but small) broods of each. I feed the fry the Hikari First Bites or the Arctic Copeepods from VisionQuest, too. The Golden Pearls from VisionQuest seem to bee the favorite of the juvies & adults 1/4" & up.

Tommy

[dxiong5]

tommy - any possibility of the CPD and EDR crossbreeding? I've read of reports, but not actual confirmed reports with pics of the offspring.

[LS6 Tommy]

Originally Posted by dxiong5

tommy - any possibility of the CPD and EDR crossbreeding? I've read of reports, but not actual confirmed reports with pics of the offspring.

I was under the impression that they wouldn't/couldn't crossbreed, but then somebody posted a picture of what is supposed to be a hybrid. It looks like a CPD without the red markings. From what I read they're very similar, but due to the separation in breed territory thay have genetically grown apart enough to rule out crossbreeding, kind of like the finches in the Galapagos Islands. I forget what the scientific term is. Anyway, I don't know if mine have crossbred as there are what seem to be CPD fry, but they're still not big enough to have any red coloration. There's at least one EDR fry that I can very easily visually ID. We'll see!

Tommy

[funkyfish]

Originally Posted by mayanjungledog

Congratulations on your CPD breeding program! I've been following this thread as I've recently purchased a group of CPDs. They've been displaying spawning behavior in the past couple of weeks and just today, I saw some fry that I did not recognize. They looked like pictures of fry in this thread, so I am assuming they are CPDs, but I'm not 100% positive. The adults look like they may be spawning again, and I'm trying to find the eggs, but am not having any luck with that. Where are you finding the eggs? How big are the eggs? Where do you find they prefer to lay the eggs?

Sorry could reply earlier having very big technical problems with my lap top 3rd crash in 2 months and it's just been very crazy couple of weeks.

From what I learned CPDs will lay eggs over period of couple of days so you will have fry that is older/younger. And once they spawn once they will do it every other week or two especially after water changes. I just found some freshly hatched fry today and then some that is a week old in the filter. I'm running out of places to keep them in LOL
They like to lay eggs in moss or in the more over grown areas, I had a moss rock in the front of the tank and I always found eggs in there, once I removed it they laid them in overgrown areas of my tank and thats why I can't find them as easy anymore. Eggs are very small, I can't even tell you the size, maybe like a 1 mm but they not very hard to find if you concentrate, once you find one it gets easier because you know exactly what to look for. I will try to post a picture of CPD egg development so you can see how eggs change.
If you need any more help just let me know