Apisto Sunburst Spawn!!!!!

So its been only a week of keeping apistos for breeding and they have already spawned on me ..

I just went to feed them when I saw the female bright yellow!!! . . . Upon closer inspection . . .about 20 orange coloured eggs on the inside of a PVC pipe which she was guarding . .

I am so excited!!!

TM

 

Congrats!

 

They are still spawning . . .I might have caught them in the middle of it all . . cant wait to see how many other eggs appear tomorrow. . .

pics to follow . .

 

WOW congrats bud !

 

It is a great feeling seeing that happen, is it their first spawn? If so you might want to not get your hopes up they tend to eat the first batchs of fry, sorry to say :-( broke my heart when I first say it

 

Hope they have spawned before. They are my older pair so they probably have. . .not as a pair though.

The colour on the female is so freakn awesome!! first fish I bred that has orange eggs!!!

 

Fantastic TM

Pics Please

 

Congrats! My Blue Steel female just ate her fry

 

Yeah . .managed to get a few bad pics but will get some better ones tomorrow.

Will post pics tomorrow around lunch.

TM

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What I am interested in is feeding my apisto fry some cyclops . . .could this be fatal?

 

30 eggs . . .and counting

 

hey well done bru, im coming for scrambled eggs tomorrow lol

 

Dude...'bout the Cyclops....
Not as a first food...Infusoria(green water),Liquifry or tiny amounts of cooked egg yolk...
Cyclops fine once they start pecking at stuff and swimming around...

G'luck mate...

 

Yeah . . but liquifry in a 3ft tank? Is it worth my R70?

I have greenwater . . but there's cyclops in there . . . lets see If I can make a greenwater culture in like 4 days . .

TM

 

If a bottle of it @R70 can get you thru that critical first 3 - 5 days of freeswimming stage before you move them on to Cyclops and larger food...Hell yeah...
4 days for green water a bit short..but give it a go...Boil a banana skin - pour water in old tank outside and let cool...add more water and inoculate with some gunk from siphoning the gravel of your dirtiest tank - leave in sun and Voila!!!

 

I added 2 drops of ferts, hornwort with algae, and aged water in a 3L clear plastic container . . . . green away. .

Will the liquifry be effective in such a large tank?

How do I use liquifry . . clearly I have no idea . .

TM

 

just squirt it into the water - cant remember dosage now,but used it extensively on my angel fry in tanks with same volume as yours...worked for me...

 

Liquifry is just a few drops... nothing hectic. But you need to start with it NOW. Not when they hatch.

 

will get Liquifry tomorrow so the greenwater feeding idea can be scrapped . . .

They will absorb their yolk sacs and then the BS hatching starts . .

 

The female ate half of the eggs . . I don't know why . .

Thankfully they will breed again in a few weeks . .

 

Early parents in the species are a little confused, as to how and what they should do...

Give them time and you will eventually have fantasitc parents and they will be the best you will ever see...