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Thanks FrostyCongratulations. Were they born in this tank, or did you fish them out of your main CPD tank?
Btw, I love the dinosaur skull too.![]()
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 :icon_smilNice, 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
Thanksvery 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.
Well, congratulations, as far as I know, it's not that easy to breed them. I was trying to find some info about how to breed rummynose tetras and blue tetras without any luck. Maybe I'll copy your method
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I did run a filter prior to noticing fry, I had a HOB filter wich was for a 10g tank, the breeding tank was 14g. I am sure no filter would work you just need to do small daily water changes. I also read that since CPD comes from small lakes with streams and heavy vegetation, water changes help to target breeding, I read that some people actually turn off heaters during the night to copy the natural habitat because lakes get colder at night by couple degrees, but I guess it could be done with water change just before the light is turned off. If Sawbwa Resplendens and Microrasbora Erythromicron habitat is the same or very close to CPD it should definitely workCongrats! So you ran no filtration prior to noticing that you had fry? I'm wondering if this method will work for Sawbwa Resplendens and Microrasbora Erythromicron as well...
ThanksThey are looking fantastic! I am not as lucky. I only have four left of my fry. I am jealous. I am following your method next time.![]()
Thanks Krackle!wow! that's wonderful! It's so great to see that folks are successfully breeding CPDs so we can hopefully stop depleting the wild supply! :biggrin:
What a great success! Once I move I want to set up a separate tank for my CPDs so I see them more often, I may want to add a few more too, so if you plan to sell them, I'd certainly be interested!![]()
ThanksCongrats! Did you have to feed the fry at all during their early stage? BBS/microworms? Or did you just let them eat infusoria?
That's a nice little grocery list you got for those babies lol. And you thought breeding betta's was hard?Thanks![]()
I actually was worried about them starving so I did started feeding them almost right away. My infusoria wasn't successful, but the tank was very mature so they had to have somethng there for them to eat for the first day, I then just crushed some different foods I got from Visionquest and the ones I had at home. My fry food mix was:
NLF small fish formula
Tetra min flackes
Arctic copepods
No carb micro pelet
Veg Flake
100% daphnia flake
I crushed it very well which took a while, and 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 suringe 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, wich they love.
I wanna get some live food but since I am unsuccesful with breeding infusoria and such I need to find a LFS that sells them, I think LFS beside my sisters office has some whit\e worms and such that they grow and sell.
:hihi: I want my babies to have only the best LOLThat's a nice little grocery list you got for those babies lol. And you thought breeding betta's was hard?
Where did you buy decapsulated BBS eggs? I've heard about them but I've always used newly hatched BBS. I've just recently tried microworms and they can get pretty messy but are so tiny that you've got food right from the get go for your babies. Lemme know if you need a culture nextime you wanna try some.