I Don't Think Any From The First Spawn Made It :(

[ICEEGRL]

Can I get excited now? I am going to any way...
You know I can't help it.


The only thing I have laying eggs is the delphax, and their eggs won't hatch.

 

[jollysue]

I have a very few that made it past the most delicate early days and are starting to look like fish and not dashing dots or slivers. But it may be as few as 3 or 4. They got moved around too much. There will be more next time. Wish I knew what got them going for sure. So far I am guessing. But within the week they will have a better set up of their own, as will the julii and my precious C. areio. Not entirely sure what the arrangement will be yet.

 

[geo7x]

Sorry to hear some of them didn't make it. But 3 or 4 is better than none and still exciting! (Is for me anyway )

 

[jollysue]

Thanks, geo7x.

There are 2-4 in the moss growing. I can still see through them, so I am not positive yet what they are.

I have had first time spawns all over the fish room. Many are in community tanks, so I have to wait to be sure what some are. But I believe I have at least Cory 8 species and/or variations hatched and hatching. Everyone is getting it on this spring. They love the new fish room and the most recent arrangement of the tanks.

And of course I have had mishaps.

The net in the San Juan (?), melini, arcuatus, lf panda tank accidentally spilled some inhabitants during a water change. Then when I was getting ready to move the fish in that tank to the 20L vacated by my juvies, I took the decore out. The cave in their tank is a lighthouse on a rocky out cropping. It is hollow. When I picked it up to get it out of the way so I could catch the fish, fry poured out of the holes in the legs. I see one or 2 scooting around, but many that escaped the net and those dumped from the legs, may not make it back to safety. We shall see. But more eggs from the tank are going in that net, and there are new fry. Some appear white, so I don't know what all I have hatching.

I hope I can do more water changes this weekend. It is also suppose to rain. Between the water changes and the barametric changes, there should be more spawns. I just hope to have the time to collect the eggs.

 

[jollysue]

I have 2 somethings in the Black net! I can not tell for sure what they are yet, but they are definately not bronze babies!

 

[Cory_Dad]

That's good news!

But I wander how effective raising in the nets really is as apposed to using a separate tank.

Comments?

 

[jollysue]

Nets work for me because they are less labor intensive. They work for smaller spawns. The nets don't need to be cleaned and water changed every day. At least mine don't. As a matter of fact the grungier the net the better the little buggers do.

I had some trouble with these spawns, because I was not ready for them and I also had some major tank moving done soon after they were in the net. I lost fry from all the nets with the moving around by inexperienced hands.

The main drawback is that the fry are hard to see and keep track of in my nets which are full of moss and algae. The temptation is to bounce them and check them. That disrupts them at a fragile time in their development. I am more of a survival of the fittest style. So thowing them in a net and leaving them alone to do their thing works for me. But this time they got messed with too much.

I really couldn't say if I get more or less rate of fry to grow out in comparison to other methods. It works for me better at this point. I don't have the time or energy to do the other way.

 

[ICEEGRL]

How are the little ones doing now?

 

[jollysue]

I don't know. These guys are growing really slowly. But they look less and less like blacks. They look spotty. The spotty fish in the tank were longipinnus (the eggs did not look like the longipinnus spawns I have harvested), julii, Asipdoras/C118, and C.areio. They don't look like julii. They could be Aspidoras. Or I suppose areio. But sometimes I do see a flash of white belly!

 

[ICEEGRL]

Maybe they will have a growing spurt soon so you can tell what they are. Are they big enough to get a pic of yet? Do you know if the blacks start out spotted?
My elegans looked like peppers at first. I think a lot of the fry start out spotted then they go away as they grow.
I hope they are blacks...

 

[jollysue]

Yeah, I know lots do have spots as fry. I am just waiting to see. They also have a long Aspidora type body, which the longipinnus also have. I read that the there is discussion on moving the longipinnus to the Aspidora genus.

I hope so too.