Hi all, although i have about 8 years of fish keeping experience, this is the first time that i have bred BN's. I have about 30 babies hat i can see, which are nearly all at the top of the heater (where my one and only air line is which could indicate signs of lack of oxygen???) I done a filter clean last night (where i saw no babies) so they've only came out today which could be an indicator of their age.
Anyway, my 15 gall tank is greatly overstocked with about 45 pure strain endlers and 4 adult BN's, 30 baby BN's, 3 clown loaches 2 khulie loaches, 3 cherry barbs and 2 shrimps. Fortunatly, my filter is total overkill with an eheim ecco 2232 (for 50 gall tanks which is 3.2x more powerful than it needs to be) and there are PLENTY of live plants fed with EI and a water change weekly of 50%
I was doing a breeding program for pure strain endlers because they are really scarce and i want to give others the chance to have PURE strains. However i thought that i'd have another 3 months till the BN's reached maturity, in which i was going to depart with 90% of my endlers and i really did not even think that i would get BN babies this soon!
I'm going to try to sell some endlers on this site, but what about the BN's. Are they big waste makers? At what size is it advisable to transport them at?
Would you reccommend I kull any of them? (for the greater good right
)
I also have a 72 gallon tank with large comunity fish including 2 adult BN's (1 male, 1 female) , common plec, rusty plec, 4 baby Clown loaches , 1 red finned shark, 2 kissing gouromis, 2 pearl gouromis and 2 angel fish which is perfectly stocked. I heard that BN's are great parents even if they are not the real parents, so will putting a few babies in that tank be suicide or not?
Anyway, my 15 gall tank is greatly overstocked with about 45 pure strain endlers and 4 adult BN's, 30 baby BN's, 3 clown loaches 2 khulie loaches, 3 cherry barbs and 2 shrimps. Fortunatly, my filter is total overkill with an eheim ecco 2232 (for 50 gall tanks which is 3.2x more powerful than it needs to be) and there are PLENTY of live plants fed with EI and a water change weekly of 50%
I was doing a breeding program for pure strain endlers because they are really scarce and i want to give others the chance to have PURE strains. However i thought that i'd have another 3 months till the BN's reached maturity, in which i was going to depart with 90% of my endlers and i really did not even think that i would get BN babies this soon!
I'm going to try to sell some endlers on this site, but what about the BN's. Are they big waste makers? At what size is it advisable to transport them at?
Would you reccommend I kull any of them? (for the greater good right
) I also have a 72 gallon tank with large comunity fish including 2 adult BN's (1 male, 1 female) , common plec, rusty plec, 4 baby Clown loaches , 1 red finned shark, 2 kissing gouromis, 2 pearl gouromis and 2 angel fish which is perfectly stocked. I heard that BN's are great parents even if they are not the real parents, so will putting a few babies in that tank be suicide or not?
