Raising 112 souls (and counting)

Actually rainbows are more like guppies in the spawning side. At least the Kutubus were. Going to move a male and female Boesemani this evening. Have selected the best looking ones. Hopefully I will have the same sucsess with them.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

 

my male goes crazy on every water change yes.

would a spawning mop work for rainbows? or does it have to be a moss patch?

 

Spawning mops are perfect. I'm just too lazy to make some and have the moss.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

 

i thought would just be easier to pull that out. and then would you have to medicate the water like you do with angel fish or do they not go vrot?

sorry im steeling your trade secrets here @pierreschoonraad

 

I used mops on my threadfins. Worked okay but I got better results moving the fish around.

 

When you spawn fish in the presence of other fish many of the eggs become food. Sad but true

 

you mean, taking the fish out into another tank for breeding?
thats what ill do yes, i have Rams in my big tank and they are like vultures, waiting for eggs to drop

 

I had spawning mops in my tank with my 200 threadfins but only found a few eggs in each mop at a time. When I moved a pair to a different tank for a few days I got many more fry. If you have the tank space the mops are probably better as its continuous production but as they fry grow they eat the smaller ones so you would need to start a new fry tank each week or so. The batch process gives you a larger number of fry that are the same age but overall its probably fewer fry.

 

No problem Ammar. No trade secrets here. I'm also learning as we go on.

I throw a few shrimp into the tank to keep the eggs clean and fungus free. I know some people use Mertiolate blue with eggs which should prevent fungus growth.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

 

yes that is what I was talking about, so the shrimp wont eat the eggs??

 

As far as I have seen they don't

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

 

Just a few picks of the fry's new home.

First foto is of the tank. Outlet is about 1/3 from the left. Inlet is via a 250 L/h pump, from the diy wet/dry sump, and has a spraybar pointing to the right hand glas. Behind the rock and wood, in the left back corner, I have another 250 L/h filter that pushes water down which should remove all uneaten food and poop to the open space on the right to make it easy for cleaning.

Second foto is of the diy wet/dry sump. As nobody actually sees this part of the tank looks was not considered but only functunality. The sump part is a meat tray I used previously as sump on the moss tank. Water enters the trays through a spray bar onto batting, the orange bag is just the to prevent the water from splashing all over the place. Second tray contains bio balls, in this case the orange bag is to help spread the dripping water accross the whole tray. All of this is still above water level. Third tray contains ceramic rings that were in the 4ft sump. Below this I have some coarse sponges and pieces of clay tiles that should add some more biological filtration.

Defnitly not a work of art but it works as intended.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

 

I like the trickle filter thru office equipment what are those stick you have in the sump.
I found lava rock for 25 a kg was thinking of using it instead of ceramic.

Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

 

Not stick but off cut pieces of clay tiles. Lava rocks will work very good

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

 

Looks good and practical @pierreschoonraad. I like it

Now you can see how much the little guys have grown!!!

 

Thanks. They look so small again to me now that they are in the bigger tank.

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

 

Almost 100 days in and biggest fry starting to show their true colors more.



Boesemani male and female in the spawning tank. Keeping fingers crossed that they will make me as happy as the Kutubu parents

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

 

Good luck, that would be awesome

 

Thanks Maria

Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

 

Good luck, that male looks amazing. Let us know how it goes.
Are u keeping them together for 3 days?

Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk