Raising 112 souls (and counting)

After only 4 days in their spawning tank I removed the 2 Kutubus. Reason for this is I'm back to day old fry. Spotted about 10 of them when removing the parents. Gave them a good helping of micro worms to get them going.

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well done. You seem to have this breeding thing down

 

Breeding part is easy. Will have to see if the fry raising goes better this time round

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Wow... congratulations @pierreschoonraad

You have really mastered this!!

 

Like I said the breeding part is easy. I just need to open the curtains, of the fish room, and this guy is ready to spawn.

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True story. I have 11 cpd fry that are about a month now - looks like i am going to lose 4 due to swim bladder issues. Eish.

 

It is sad when you see the problem comming. Good luck with them. Hope they can recover

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Looks like you're getting it perfect Pierre! Magic touch

 

Great job!! Im Jealous! Good luck with the raising and hope u get more popping. Keep us updated

 

Thanks @Hendre and @Ammar

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Do you have a potential market for them? Nothing worse that getting stuck with an overstocked tank and being unable to get rid of the fish. I have a friend who spawned about 100 rams - started selling them but eventually he was trying to give them away and still couldnt get rid of all of them.

 

I do have a place that will take everything I breed. Made sure of this before I started cause I know about a lot of people that end up with tanks full of fish and nobody wNts them

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Thats good. You seem very organised

 

He knows people in high places

 

I'm just lucky to know the right people.

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Won't call myself organised. Try to stick to something that works at the moment. Tend to loose interest when stuff stagnate.

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I'm very happy this morning. Have my first Boesemani fry swimming around.

Hopefully I will be picking up some M australis today. If they did get females that is.


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Super awesome!! How many are u seeing? Decent batch?

Please let me know if they have females, im gonna try sneak there after my boy's hockey game.

School sports interfering with tge important things in life

 

Thanks. With a torch I didn't see many, about 5. Will have a better look this afternoon when the lights are on.

Will defnitly let you know about the females.

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Quick update. The origanal Kutubu todlers is doing great. Both new Kutubu and Boesemani fry is still surviving. Havn't moved any of the fry from the spawning/hatching tanks. They receive the same food every feeding as well as wc on the same days. They should be more than fine in there for the next 3 months before they will move over to the 2ft tank, currently occupied by the todlers. Although all of this might change depending on the numbers of fry I get.

A very interesting observation I have seen over the past few days with the new fry. Kutubu fry are much darker, almost black, compared to the Boesemani fry which is more a translusent/silver color when looking from the top down at them. Kutubu fry only swim in the top 1/4 of the tank but mostly the top 2cm. Boesemani fry uses the top 1/2 of the tank.

Very interesting to have 2 different batches of 2 different Rainbows spesies that have hatched a day appart. Will be very interesting, for me at least, to be able to compare the growth rate of these guys over the next 6 months.

Foto of Boesemani fry showing their position in the water volume

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