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jollysue

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Oh just a pic here and a pic there.

I ran out of black worms the other day and so drug out a stash of frozen mysis shrimp that had been in the freeser longer than I care to say. :blush: I fed them to the Corys.

The next moring I awoke to this
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I thought the plant was sick, until I looked closer
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The melanotanaea are spawning. So far the eggs are fungusing, but they are still trying. I think the boys may be a little young, but they are making a valiant effort.

I collected more eggs from the pandas, duplicarus and gossei today. The gossei were really serious. I hope I got some of theirs.
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They like these plastic plants that have the plastic plates on the bottom that are suppose to go under the gravel I let them float upside down.
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They like this cloth plant too.
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I also collected eggs from the simulatus pair that survived the horror. They were recently added to the Jari zebra tank with the green neon lasers and a school of harlequins. I believe that the neons were also tying to spawn. Since I put them in this new tank, they are very happy. They swim midlevel a lot reminding me of pygmies. No pics of this yet.

Who's watching whom?
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Are you going away soon? I have imprtant things to do!
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Who's this dude? What are you doing there? We refuse to share our black worms!
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An elder
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There are just too many young scaps around here!
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Sorry about the quality of some of the pictures. This tank gets too much reflection and is hard to shoot.
 
very nice. if they hatch u're gona have ALOT of fishes. whats species is that plec there btw?
 
Long finned marble BN I got 6 babies and 2 males have thrived and survived. I plan to try again with the females. A breeder is near me, but his babies haven't had a high success rate for me. This fellow and his brother are quite handsome and unusual.
 
Nice pics Sue. I like the cory playing peek-a-boo with you. And the Long finned marble BN. Dont see them around my neck of the woods. Hope they all hatch for you
 
Thanks, Bozza.

Those little guys at the end are long fin C. aeneus juvies spawned from from my Epperson stock. One just turned up in the tank. Good old aeneus Corys are prolific.

I am still learning to get the eggs from spawn to juvie. There have been lots of hatches from the pandas and duplicarus, but none have survived. I even saw a dot dashing around the bottom of their tank once, but I have not seen it since. I have a lot to learn.
 

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