Mean, green, breeding machines
#1 Guest_fishlvr_*
Posted 14 June 2008 - 04:23 PM
Pics coming soon! My grandmother has the camera right now.
#2 Guest_fishlvr_*
Posted 15 June 2008 - 12:56 AM
Anyways, here are the pictures.
Female
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Male (you can see some of the eggs under him if you look hard enough)
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His half of the tank
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Edited by fishlvr, 15 June 2008 - 12:57 AM.
#3 Guest_centrarchid_*
Posted 15 June 2008 - 08:30 AM
#4 Guest_sandtiger_*
Posted 15 June 2008 - 08:37 AM
#5 Guest_fishlvr_*
Posted 15 June 2008 - 11:29 AM
So, will you be doing that experiment discussed with the pro-larvae?
I just went down to get some of the eggs out, and apparently they've hatched (I saw one on a piece of gravel; I couldn't see the others. I'm guessing they fell down in the gravel until swimup?). I guess I just didn't notice the eggs until a couple days after being laid. How long should I wait to breed the female again? She's fattening back up surprisingly fast on Hikari cichlid pellets and I'm going to go get some earthworms for her in a little while.
#6 Guest_fishlvr_*
Posted 15 June 2008 - 11:30 AM
Good luck with the fry. When I spawned my longears the fry wouldn't touch any kind of dry foods. I suspect you'll have to use live.
I guess I can try raising a few of the fry instead of a lot of them and try to raise them on microinverts from outside.
#7 Guest_Gambusia_*
Posted 15 June 2008 - 04:02 PM
If you can get some pond or crick water it might have small organisms for the fry to eat.
#8 Guest_centrarchid_*
Posted 15 June 2008 - 08:28 PM
I'm guessing they fell down in the gravel until swimup?
That's the whole point, they may be more than falling down.
If she is feeding well, then could go again at two week intervals. Make certain feeds got good vitamins otherwise hatchability will decline and cretinism of larvae will increase after repeated spawning bouts.
Are you going to feed them baby brine shrimp?
Edited by centrarchid, 15 June 2008 - 08:35 PM.
#9 Guest_fishlvr_*
Posted 16 June 2008 - 11:54 PM
That's the whole point, they may be more than falling down.
If she is feeding well, then could go again at two week intervals. Make certain feeds got good vitamins otherwise hatchability will decline and cretinism of larvae will increase after repeated spawning bouts.
Are you going to feed them baby brine shrimp?
Like I said my parents don't want me having bottles of brine shrimp in the house, so that's not an option for me.
Is there an alternative that can be raised outdoors (daphnia, cyclops, etc)?
#10 Guest_centrarchid_*
Posted 17 June 2008 - 07:26 AM
A mixed culture including cladocerans / water fleas (examples are Daphnia spp. but other smaller species likley better) and copepods / cyclops will work although harvested food will vary greatly in terms of quantity and quality. Best to go with more than one culture in parallel. Brine shimp could be reared outdoors during summer if you keep out of direct sun. Shrimp farmers do it all the time.Like I said my parents don't want me having bottles of brine shrimp in the house, so that's not an option for me.
Is there an alternative that can be raised outdoors (daphnia, cyclops, etc)?
#11 Guest_fishlvr_*
Posted 17 June 2008 - 08:36 AM
A mixed culture including cladocerans / water fleas (examples are Daphnia spp. but other smaller species likley better) and copepods / cyclops will work although harvested food will vary greatly in terms of quantity and quality. Best to go with more than one culture in parallel. Brine shimp could be reared outdoors during summer if you keep out of direct sun. Shrimp farmers do it all the time.
Ok.
For the brine shrimp, do you mean like having a breeding culture, or just hatching them outdoors?
-Steve
#12 Guest_centrarchid_*
Posted 17 June 2008 - 08:45 AM
Ok.
For the brine shrimp, do you mean like having a breeding culture, or just hatching them outdoors?
-Steve
Just hatching.
A week on baby brine shrimp and your sunfish larvae / fry will be able to handle the larger zooplankton you can culture in your greenwater tanks.
#13 Guest_fishlvr_*
Posted 17 June 2008 - 08:57 AM
Just hatching.
A week on baby brine shrimp and your sunfish larvae / fry will be able to handle the larger zooplankton you can culture in your greenwater tanks.
Thanks. Hopefully a few will survive out of this batch. Not sure how this one will turn out though, since I have nowhere to move the babies or other fish in the tank. I really wasn't prepared for them to breed so quickly.
#14 Guest_centrarchid_*
Posted 17 June 2008 - 09:02 AM
Thanks. Hopefully a few will survive out of this batch. Not sure how this one will turn out though, since I have nowhere to move the babies or other fish in the tank. I really wasn't prepared for them to breed so quickly.
I advise you attempt to rear only a hundred or so. Get rid of the rest before they swimmup. Will improve food availability for those to be grown out.
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