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my jordanellas spawned


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#1 Guest_Auban_*

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Posted 07 April 2013 - 03:19 AM

i had all this kelp lying around that i collected on a beach... i was wanting to see if it would work well with the algae i use, since it would slowly break down and release ammonia for the algae. well, it seems to work pretty well. the algae is growing real fast and dense, the overall ammonia level is unreadable, and the flag fish i tossed in a ten gallon thought the setting appropriate to start a family.

this is a pic of the eggs scattered around the algae. the brown stuff is the kelp base.
i didnt add any tannins to the water, its the kelp that has turned the water dark. its pretty cheap, and effective! this tank has an incredibly high flow, so when i looked in and saw the male beating his fins and breathing hard, i figured he was trying to fan eggs(no other reason made sense).

yep. he was.

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Posted 11 April 2013 - 11:04 PM

.......and we have fry.

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dont worry, im not keeping them in that little cup of water. i just collected a few so i could take a pic of them. there are probably three or four times as many in the tank. i havent fed them yet, should be a good test of the algae.

#3 littlen

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Posted 12 April 2013 - 09:26 AM

They are large enough to take microworms and artemia nauplii right off the bat. It's nice to see you have at least 2 different age classes in there--so you already have your answer if they're eating the microfauna off of your plants! (Evident by the ~3 or so larger fry in your cup).

How many adults do you have in your tank?
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Posted 12 April 2013 - 08:28 PM

yeah, those larger fry were much faster too. i was only able to catch a few.

this was from one pair. there are three pairs in a 65 gallon, one of which spawned the fry in the ten gallon.

right now its just the fry.

Edited by Auban, 12 April 2013 - 08:30 PM.




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