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My pair of angels have been busy recently. The pair that are raising their own have been doing a good job of it, so much so, that I had to separate some of them to give the angels a chance!
Here's a picture of the few I recovered from the breeding tank:
I have not yet been able to count them, but an estimate is around 200 from one pair of three! There are still another 50 or so in with the parents, so I guess they are reasonably successful!
unfortunately, the lighting isn't very good, but you can see the swarm clearly at the start. The back end was trying to show the rest with the parents, but lighting let it down badly!
Last edited by timg; October 18th, 2007 at 08:55 AM.
I was cleaning my tank today and i saw something moveing around in the sypon al lo and behold it was a monster baby blue crayfish i actually got 3 babys from vacuuming my tank lol im suprised they survived with my tigerbarbs and my adult blue cray lol
It's been about 9 weeks since I first published pictures of the first angel fry, so I thought is was about time to post an update.
The following pictures are not brilliant, but give a good adea of the stage of development. There is also one with one of the later gourami fry, which demonstrates the size, by the heater in the foreground!
Last edited by timg; October 19th, 2007 at 10:56 AM.
I almost forgot about these! The betta fry are just about large enough now to catch on camera, very blurred, since they are at the back of the column, just under the surface cover, but they can be seen. They are now around 4 weeks old. The last picture shows the tank they are in.
Last edited by timg; October 19th, 2007 at 11:10 AM.
Dang those are some nice fry
Ive got 6 6month old guppies 3 male 3 female
the females all have a baby blue tail and one has a red tip on it
two males are yellow and red with blue specks the other is a veiltail baby blue
Last night between 6 & 8 pm, one of our Red Fancy Gups dropped a batch of about 2 dozen fry. I took these pics while they were acclimating to the guppy fry tank, so they're 1-3 hours old. (and already eating. )
One of my angel pairs has finally decided to become proper parents! This time we just left them to it, and wow! They have raised their own fry and are now busy protecting the fry against the other fish.
The pic is not brilliant, but you can see the fry above the mother:
I only found two platy fry, a week apart, in a tank with only two female platys (and a male molly): one calico platy and one sunset mickey mouse one. Am guessing their mothers were still pregnant from the shop, but I've had the mothers quite a while, so it's surprising. Ah well. One of life's little presents I guess.
The calico platy fry is still very pale, I find. I'd like to see the black on his back darkening a lot more.
I love the close-up of his face.
Last edited by armadillo; November 13th, 2007 at 03:36 AM.
1/ My sunset mickey mouse platy fry followed by molly fry. He's checking out a jelly nest of snail eggs. He gave me hope that he would eat them, but he just looked... Argh! Will nothing rid of me of that terrible pest?
Note the developing mickey mouse pattern. Only this week has the mickey mouse face started to darken (he only had the ears for a while).
2/ For some reason, the molly fry is always following the orange platy fry around (they're 3 weeks younger).
3/ The platy fry in hte middle of a basket holding ring.
Last edited by armadillo; November 13th, 2007 at 03:39 AM.
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