Wild Blue Spawn

Hi all,

I got lucky and got a pair of Wild Blue that decided to spawn in the community Tank. I gave them their own 29 gal. but the weren’t interested so I set them back to there buddies and off they go again.
After 3 days back they had (just guessing) 150-250 eggs and from those about 80-90 got to the free swimming stage. After day 1 there were about 40 left >:( and after day 2 around 30.
I found out that the divider was not properly done from me and watched about 12-15 being served as a snack.
Well day 12 now and still 23 left :o
Hope the rest will make it.

Ronald

The Tank,

[brewmaster15]

Great News Ronald!!! Congratulations!!!!! :) :) :) :)

-al

Mom

Mom and Dad

9 days and going
emm swimming lol

Thanks Al,

Dang you are real fast ;)

Ronald

[yogi]

Ronald I'm glad to see you finally posted pictures of this spawn. What will suprise some people is You only had these fish a couple of weeks and they started spawning in captivity. good luck,

[Rod]

Congrats Ronald, they look fantastic

[Discus_KC]

Ronald,

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Jack

[KD]

Very nice!!
Congratulations!!!!

[Fishin dude]

Great Job and tank looks outstanding! :hat:

[oodi]

Great job, Ronald!!! This is too cool!!! Please keep us updated on their progress.

Judi
:)

Thanks all,


Jerry,
I forgot about that in the excitement lol.
They laid the first batch after I had them 2 weeks (they were about 1 week in captivity until then) on the sponge.
Next day eggs were gone. So I thought I might give them there own 29 gal but the male did not do well at all in there so I put them back after 1 week in that tank. Only after 3 days back the started again. Speaking of being lucky ;D

Ronald

[aquatechnics]

Hi Ronald,
Congratulations!!!!!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Alberto

[Tad]

Ronald ;D,
Congratulations with your new pair of wilds,

Regards :P,
Tad

Thanks Alberto

Thanks Tad,

It is as you told me so often, very rewarding to have the experience. 8)

Ronald

[jim_shedden]

wonderfull job

[SantaFeDiscus]

Ronald-
The tank looks great! Congrats on your successful spawn! Keep us posted.
Fred

Thanks alot jim and Fred :)

Ronald

[jn4u]

Nice!

Tack Johan


Ronald ;D

[oodi]

Hey Ronald...

How about an update?

Judi
:)

Hi Judi,

Coming soon.
I have them now in a 55 gal now.
Lost alot because I treated for flukes :(
Have 11 left and they are doing fine so far. :)

Ronald

[the_oracle]

Congrats Ron,
Waiting for new updated pics.
Keep it up, man...........

[oodi]

Good to hear you have the 11. I'm looking forward to pics!!

Judi
:)

Here is the update from the little ones.
They are about 4-6 weeks old in the pic.
Some even start to look like Discus lol. ;D

Ronald

2 pisc

and 3 pic.

Boy are they hard to photograph when they get bigger.

[oodi]

They look great, Ronald... congrats!!!

Judi
:)

[Mike_T]

any updates? anxious to see pics...

-mike

[wall_o_fish]

Nice spawn! Keep us posted on future spawns too!

[oodi]

Yeah, Ronald...

It's been about 3 weeks, and no new pics. You're slacking!!! ;D

Judi
:)

Hi Guy's,

Sorry for the late respond.

Well there is not much I can update on that spawn :'(
From the 11 that made it through my treatment 7 of them did not recover and went to fish heaven.
I have 4 left (aren’t I good with counting lol) but it seems they are also struggling. I'll make a pic later tomorrow.

I also have from the same pair Wild's about 40 fry.
They are now 8 day's old and doing good so far. The are still with the parents in the 125 Tank.

I just wish I had been more interested in Breeding in the past. Might have a bit more of a clue what to do lol. ???
Should have listend to Tad. 8)


Ronald

[Tad]

Ronald,
Whats getting your fry? large daily WCs and wipedowns a must with fry,(otherwise clean, clean, clean) watch for signs of flukes=secondary bacterial infections....is most often what causes the most havoc with young fry.....watch for ammonia spikes due to increased bioload from bbs etc..

and at 4 months send me some Juvies ;D

regards,
Tad

[jn4u]

This may sound very strange ;). But I also had the same problem as every one else with the problem of very high mortality in the range from 4 to 6 week. And I change water 50% every morning and evening. No success!!!

I started to change less water only 10 to 20% every day. I didn’t let my water air for 48h and let the pH drop to 5. Lower pH gives lower amount of bacteria. And use large filter with “zeolite” as filter material. This made much better success than before.

Another method is to transfer the fry with first sign of eating artemia. Then there is no time for the young to get any sickness. Next step in a small tank 10 liters.

What is interesting when changing water is rate of change 100% every time then it’s not possible for **** to “build up”. If you change 40 l every day? Then it’s better to keep the fish in 10 l than 40 l, in the 10 l tank you get 4 times water change every day in the 40 get one turn over. This is a very hard method you have to increase the tank often and the small tank also make the young to find the food, very good growth.

Tony:s tanks is built up on this princip. With auto matic waterchange. I use the first.
http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52004755/Bilder/Specialkar1.jpg
http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52004755/Bilder/Specialkar2.jpg
http://w1.520.telia.com/~u52004755/Bilder/Specialkar3.jpg

Thanks Tad and "Tack" Johan (that’s about all Swedish I learned so far)

I treated for Flukes Tad but it seems the treatment did more harm then anything else. But hey, live and learn.
I also made the mistake and put them in a 55 gal.
The new fry will go into a 29 gal. That's the smallest I have available right now. The 20 gal. I have is Hospital and QT tank and I am a bit reluctant to use that one.

The 4 Horseman emmm Fishman seem to find the food, I guess.

Pic. coming up soon :-\

Ronald