Growing out in planted tank... again :P

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  • pastry
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    Liz, remember, "set the bar low (with me)" I now call e everything "infusoria" apparently (even my 8 year old called me out and said, "Dad, that crap you got out of the pond that you see and not put your eyeball on the bottle isn't 'infusra' (infusoria)...". I looked it up.... he was right... so I asked, "I thought your dyslexic butt couldn't read too good?"... to which he replied, "Not funny. YouTube. And I'm getting better." So I made him do push-ups (smartass kid)

    Sooooo, I'm "cheating" with current discus pair in community tank. I put a redneck-engineered net divider to help protect latest spawn. Similar to what I did with that F1 PIWOW RT pair I had circa 2015-16. If I can get 40'ish fry to 4-7 days free swimming then I'm netting half of them and putting them into the plastic tub I have like the baby angels & bettas.

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  • LizStreithorst
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    Angels can eat BBS since day one. Infusoria is way too small for them.

    How are the Discus doing? They didn't look real happy in your last couple of pics.

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  • pastry
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    So those damn baby angels... yeeeaaah... so I netted about 12-18 (or more) when I posted last pics, put them in a little plastic bin with heater & aerator, fed them infusoria,.........only 6 made it through first 3 days, then 4 past since 9/18 (so about 21 days free swimmers). I don't want angels, BUT... they're so cool as little 21 day'ers! Hope you can see them in these pics...
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  • pastry
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    First 2 are parents (Brown
    based Red & Heckle x) on eggs (both real dark). Few other random pics as well as pics in January of Heckle & Brown based red male (he was smaller then).

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  • pastry
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    Liz, I'm going to show your post to my wife... YESSSSS

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  • LizStreithorst
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    You sure have it going on with breeding, Elliot. Have you given your Discus pair a love nest yet. Those are nice Angels. If I were I would start breeding them, too. Your problem is that you don't have enough tanks. You need to build a fish room.

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  • pastry
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    Threw younger group of betta babies in with older group, then netted 2/3's of angel babies out & threw into former "younger betta container"Click image for larger version

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  • pastry
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    Damn Angels... Male picked off a few discus fry. Pair of discus said "Screw it, making new batch!" but still had a few eating from sides!!!!!!!

    Alright, might remove that discus pair to breeding tank. I'm VERY inexperienced moving pairs from tank to breed. I'll try finding some horny goat weed to help with transition. Letting them sit on tonight's batch though.

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  • pastry
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    So the 2 damn angels that I agreed to keep in my tank VERY temporarily (for my wife) grew up and happened to me M&F. Spawned recently and had over 300 free swimmers starting 2 days ago. Right now, less than that many (thank you Rummynoses!!!!!!) but still don't want them!
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    Meanwhile, have my RR with Heckle X pair shielding freeswimmers so I can't get pic

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  • pastry
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    I'm pretty confident that I have my third pair ever that is capable of raising little ones in my planted community tank (raised long enough to adulthood.... follow this pair if I don't take all of the fry out after a couple weeks then at least take out a number of them because I love the combination of my heckle cross female with a brown base red male. The last group they had last week made it three days until I pushed my luck and went to the side of the tank they were at to take a picture and did not realize I had my phone camera on flash. Big the hell out of the parents and they jolted to the other side of the tank and didn't return for five to 7 long seconds which was enough time for my angels that I do not want in the tank, a few of my runny nose Etc that are fatter than the others and the little school I have, and one hungry little apisto female to demolished the small group of about 20 or 25 three day old free swimmers.Click image for larger version

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    About 2 months ago I did a water change with my age tap water and did so without testing the water. End up being ridiculously horrible water that I don't even think was good for human consumption, and it wreak havoc on all the fish in the tank. Almost lost them all but end up losing only one of my biscuits which was my biggest nail. Boss half of my running nose school and all but four of my Ember Etc school. It even wiped out all but one of my corydoras and love you bristlenose pleco that I kept from a pair that spawned multiple times a year ago. No more signs of any cherry shrimp at all, and to top it off, lost two of the three female apisto ninjensii I had just gotten to put with my two males in the tank. Two others in the neighborhood experienced the same and were also alerted because they had aquariums ( they lost almost all of their fish and one of them is OCD on water parameters 24/7). So three of us, as well as others we found out on John's Island, blasted the local water company and at least they really did do a sincere apology but at the same time not very cool when you see a pH below 5.0, and have readings on all three categories involving nitrites, nitrates, and ammonia... I've never seen that .

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  • pastry
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    Some updated pics.

    PAT! A certain little guy literally started popping out some some blue streaks and blue in the fins within like 72-96 hours!

    Meanwhile, pair in the corner sitting on eggs again and Heckle cross has (I think) 2 boys vying for her attention and I'm screaming at her to make a damn decision! (but one might actually be another female and so maybe it's the young SM male that needs to decide).

    Little Angel's have grown quick over 2 weeks... told wife, "Soon they need to go to your classroom tank... cute now but not permanent in my tank"

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  • Iminit
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    There it is!! There it is!! What we’ve been missing!! Francis your being paged!!

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  • pastry
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    Originally posted by Iminit
    Lol Elliot!! Pictures or it didn’t happen
    Haaaaaa! Got one "from a far" that you'll have to zoom to see 2 new little ones & 2 angels
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  • Iminit
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    Lol Elliot!! Pictures or it didn’t happen

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  • pastry
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    Added 2 teenie tiny silver Angel's to grow for my wife's tank at her school. I usually don't like keeping them with my discus but when tiny I don't mind. Funny little turds go after the shrimp like I wish the discus (...my discus) would. But they set the bar HIGH and go after the female shrimp that are as long as they are...lol

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