Wild Blues - Pair 1 Round 7 - 2 Nov 12

[Len]

Pair 1 have laid again. Photos coming later this evening.

[Second Hand Pat]

Tease :D ...right call on removing the fry.

[Len]

Good thing my order of bbs came today from Rick at Canadian Aqua Farm. I ran out completely as of this morning. I didn't think I'd go through them so fast, but that won't happen again. I also have 1lb of the preium eggs coming from Brineshrimpdirect :)

[Second Hand Pat]

Just in time Len. Almost a little to close. At the rate you are going that pound may not last to long.

[Len]

I hope it doesn't go to quick. It cost me $83.00 with shipping. I got 1 lb of the mix Rick sells though and do like it, so really 2 lbs in total.

[Len]

Spawn looks smaller this time around.

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9818/img5543u.jpg

http://youtu.be/DArhn39DCo8

[jimg]

maybe smaller but this time they'll hatch!

[Keith Perkins]

LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL.


Don't worry about it Len, I think Pat's just annoyed that I'm now associating with other wilds people and she doesn't exclusively get all my juju anymore. lol Oh, and Len, been thinking about that other pair of yours again. Pat - :p

[Len]

maybe smaller but this time they'll hatch!
This is true :) Not a bad thing either because I'm running out of room.



Don't worry about it Len, I think Pat's just annoyed that I'm now associating with other wilds people and she doesn't exclusively get all my juju anymore. lol Oh, and Len, been thinking about that other pair of yours again. Pat - :p
Now that's funny :)

[Keith Perkins]

Now that's funny :)

Isn't it though, less than 24 hours before the event.

[Second Hand Pat]

Annoyed or not, I think you and I Len are turning Keith into a wilds keeper wannabee.

[Len]

Well that's a given. Why do you think I keep updated posts -- so he can watch his baby wilds :) Give it another week or two and he'll have his selection made :)

[Len]

Fry went free swimming and attached today. It was funny watching the male because he was going nuts trying to catch them all and spit them back on the wood, but as fast as he was bringing them back, they were swimming off again. After a couple hours he gave up and they attached to the parents. I'll post some pics or a video in a day or so after they have time to completely settle in with them :)

[Second Hand Pat]

Len, is this the third batch to attach?

[Len]

second batch for this pair, but third in total. The second pair still have fry on them about a week or so old.

[Second Hand Pat]

You are going to be a very busy boy...congrats again.

[Len]

Thanks Pat. Not to sound greedy, but I'm hoping future spawns will get larger.

[Second Hand Pat]

Just let me know if you need help raising all those little ones :D

[Keith Perkins]

I started to leave a post here this afternoon to give you crap about chastising Mauro about splitting and not being able to update his thread when you hadn't posted here in much longer. Glad to hear you had such a good time watching the futile effort of catching all the new free swimmers. I've only had the pleasure of truly seeing that once and it was quite a hoot. Keep up the good work. Scratch that, the fish are doing all the real work...keep up the WCs. :)

[Len]

Yeah, LOTS of WCs coming. As it is, I do 3 -4 100% changes a day on the 20 Gal holding the first batch I separated. They eat like starving little piranhas so they get lots of food, but the water quickly starts getting a little hazy and it bugs me so I change it. This batch seemed to take a little longer to go free swimming too so that's why the delay in updating :)

[Len]

Not looking great for the second batch :( The male started eating them. I saved some of them, but they are only about 6 days free swimming so I'm not sure how they fair out. They are in a 10 gal right now with a divider, so they are relatively close together and I'll try feeding them and see if they accept. I should have known this was coming because for the last few days the male has been doing a lot of shimmying at the female. Not sure how she'll respond to him right now, but I can't see her being "in the mood" because as he was trying to eat the babies, she was blocking and attacking him.

[Keith Perkins]

Hopefully she'll have a short memory.