juliethegr8t
Addicted and in Therapy
I took a trip to a lfs today to exchange my lil dead male cherry barb for another - and so far, so good. The new guy immediately found my female and they've been swimming around together since their introduction. I think she was loney 
, so now she's a happier gal. I was going to get another panda cory to make 3, but they didn't have any. And now I may have to get 2 more pandas, since one of my current ones seems to have disapeared! 
I don't have a clue where he is, I searched the tank. Anyone have any ideas?? Anyways, I considered getting some albino corys, but decided not to since I've read corys are very good at knowing what is their own species, and may not necessarily school with different types. I'll probably go to a different lfs later this weekend and find another panda or two.
Also... *grin*... I took the (what I thought was) rather "strange" advice that I found on a site about breeding zebra danios. An "alternative breeding method" (as opposed to placing them in a low water level, marble-covered bottom tank, etc) - was to just let the water from a weekly gravel vacuum/water change sit for a few days and see what hatched. I thought this sounded pretty unlikely, but my goodness it worked! I left my bucket of 1 3/4 gallon of siphoned water in a calm place and covered it with a towel. I was positive there was nothing in it though - I thought I did a darned good search for eggs or babies before I set the water aside. However, *drumroll*, checked this morning and counted around 40 teeny babies!! They're still clinging to the sides of the bucket, and when they start free swimming I'll feed them some liqui-fry. I don't have the set up for brine shrimp hatching, or infusoria, so hopefully this will work. Anyways, I'm excited, because many of you know of the really horrid story of my first batch of fry. Stupid big fish sucked them through the mesh breeding net! Wish me luck with this try - I've got a tank divider now so we'll see how that goes.
, so now she's a happier gal. I was going to get another panda cory to make 3, but they didn't have any. And now I may have to get 2 more pandas, since one of my current ones seems to have disapeared! I don't have a clue where he is, I searched the tank. Anyone have any ideas?? Anyways, I considered getting some albino corys, but decided not to since I've read corys are very good at knowing what is their own species, and may not necessarily school with different types. I'll probably go to a different lfs later this weekend and find another panda or two.Also... *grin*... I took the (what I thought was) rather "strange" advice that I found on a site about breeding zebra danios. An "alternative breeding method" (as opposed to placing them in a low water level, marble-covered bottom tank, etc) - was to just let the water from a weekly gravel vacuum/water change sit for a few days and see what hatched. I thought this sounded pretty unlikely, but my goodness it worked! I left my bucket of 1 3/4 gallon of siphoned water in a calm place and covered it with a towel. I was positive there was nothing in it though - I thought I did a darned good search for eggs or babies before I set the water aside. However, *drumroll*, checked this morning and counted around 40 teeny babies!! They're still clinging to the sides of the bucket, and when they start free swimming I'll feed them some liqui-fry. I don't have the set up for brine shrimp hatching, or infusoria, so hopefully this will work. Anyways, I'm excited, because many of you know of the really horrid story of my first batch of fry. Stupid big fish sucked them through the mesh breeding net! Wish me luck with this try - I've got a tank divider now so we'll see how that goes.
