Journal - First Pair with fry

[Harry Marsh]

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Sorry if i missed this: you're doing the drip with tapwater? Chlorinated? (i skimmed above)

Adding dechlorinator?

I have a drip system as well. I once left it on all night: everything dead in the morning (no dechlorinator was able to be added overnight). It was an accident...I forgot to turn it off....

[joshvito]

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Sorry if i missed this: you're doing the drip with tapwater? Chlorinated? (i skimmed above)

Adding dechlorinator?

I have a drip system as well. I once left it on all night: everything dead in the morning (no dechlorinator was able to be added overnight). It was an accident...I forgot to turn it off....

i am not adding any dechlorinator, but there is an inline sediment and carbon filter to remove chlorine

[joshvito]

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Sad to say, the runt of my eighth perished yesterday. He was getting more and more skeleton like, and stopped eating a week ago.

Down to 7

[joshvito]

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Morning water testing

[joshvito]

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I doubled my drip rate on my drip over flow from ~50% daily change to ~80% calculated from http://www.angelfish.net/DripSystemcalc.php

I would consider my fish to be growing slower than some of the other's contestants, and hope this change will help me catch up a bit. We'll see, I could never register high Nitrates, Nitrites, or ammonia in the tank at 50%, so maybe the problem is diet related or a combination of both.

I will say, that this first time spawn has taught me a great deal and I now have the itch to try again. Now I see how some of you have multiple pairs and multiple tanks.

[Kal-El]

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I doubled my drip rate on my drip over flow from ~50% daily change to ~80% calculated from http://www.angelfish.net/DripSystemcalc.php

I would consider my fish to be growing slower than some of the other's contestants, and hope this change will help me catch up a bit. We'll see, I could never register high Nitrates, Nitrites, or ammonia in the tank at 50%, so maybe the problem is diet related or a combination of both.

I will say, that this first time spawn has taught me a great deal and I now have the itch to try again. Now I see how some of you have multiple pairs and multiple tanks.

Try doing 100% daily WC if you can. What I've learn is clean water and a good diet is the key to their growth success. I got the same fish Josie has and I'm doing what she is doing and my biggest fish is growing at the same rate as her contest fish.

When I first got them they range from 1.5-2.5". Between that size to 4" I did 150% daily WC in a 29gallon. 50% in the morning and 100% at night. Feed them 4-5 times a day. Now they are in my 75 gallon in which I do 80% daily.

I'm sure if you up the WC your fish will grow at a faster rate... Good luck...

[joshvito]

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Here is a video at about 8.5 months.
Fish are eating Freeze Dried Beefheart from Aquatic Foods.

[joshvito]

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I haven't changed my schedule with this tank, and the water parameters have stayed consistent. I did remove the poret foam divider for cleaning and replaced it with a home made divider of my own invention.

Since I removed the poret foam divider/filter, I added a whisper power filter I had laying around.

[a volar]

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I haven't changed my schedule with this tank, and the water parameters have stayed consistent. I did remove the poret foam divider for cleaning and replaced it with a home made divider of my own invention.

Since I removed the poret foam divider/filter, I added a whisper power filter I had laying around.

https://[url]https://www.youtube.com...[/url]

Link doesn't work......

[rdiscus]

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[joshvito]

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Stay tuned all, I'm working on getting my 12 months measurement shots together and taking some final photos of my best 2 fish.

[TheMutlu]

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It would be like breeding 2 plow horses and getting a race horse...possible, but very, very unlikely.

-john

Perfect touch john,

[joshvito]

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These fish are now ~1.5yrs old.
Here is a quick video from last night.

At what point do most of you move your fish from their grow out tank to the display tank? I'm assuming the advantage of a grow out tank is non-existent at 1.5yrs.

[Discusdude7]

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How big now?