Apisto Sunburst Spawn!!!!!

SPAWN 2 - DAY 3

So It's been 2 days and I just found 12 wrigglers!!!! Alive and being taken care of my mom . .

Time to hatch some BS . .

TM

 

Congrats TM, I REALLY WANT PICS

 

Spawn 2 - Day 4

Babies are doing well. There are 13 wrigglers in the tank .

PW . . .I will try bro . . the water is green ATM because of the outdoor light . and there's some algae .. but I will see what pics I can get . .good or bad . . ..

TM

 

Spawn 2 - Day 5

The babies are growing really fast. They should be ready for BBS in 48hrs. Hatching starts today . .

I'm not sure if I should lower the water level or not . . . .Advice?

Oh and here's the best pic I could get . . .



Hope you can see the little buggers . . anyone have a count on the fry? Not sure if its 12 or 14 . .

TM

 

Looking Good, I count 14

 

Don't change the water level, don't change anything, if you do the mother is likely to eat the fry so be very careful.

Once the mother is swimming around with the fry you can start feeding her and the fry freshly hatched bs. Start culturing them now. I have a spawn of A aggasizzi that have just gone free swimming and I have started feeding bs......

Kind regards,

Dirk

 

SPAWN 2 - DAY 6

The fry have grown so much but they are still wrigglers . They grow so fast on their yolk sack so BS should boost their growth even further.

Now that they are more visible, I count 15 fry but lets see if I can grow them to about 2cm first, then I will count . . .

I'm really excited about the hatch . . .I wonder when they will swim freely . .

TM

 

Oh . .and the parents have grown 2X the size since I got them . . .the males fins look like flames . . .I will try and get some pics later . .

TM

 

congrats man, awesome stuff

 

Spawn 2 - Day 7

Fry are now out of the cave and "hopping" around the tank. Mom is still watching over them. I lost count of how many fry are left (8-10) but hope at least 2 survive. Just put i some BBS in the tank with some eggs to hatch out over night.

Regards

TM

 

Hey

Just need some advice . . .

Will it be possible for me to breed apistos in 1,5ft tanks? I am running out of space and my xray tetras are ready to breed again . .

Should I breed the tetras in a 3ft and put an apisto pair in a 1,5ft or the opposite?

TM

 

Hi TM,

What's all this foot stuff, have you gone American or something.....

So, in my metric terms, if you will forgive my sarcasm, I would recommend that you use the 45 cm tank for your tetras and your 90 cm tank for your Apistos. Why, tetras can be managed much more easily in a 45 cm tank, I mean water changes and cleanliness which is essential for breeding them, and Apistos need more space. What you may also find is that once the fry of the Apistos have reached a certain size the mother will spawn again and then the fry can scatter into the rest of the tank. I actually have found that I can keep more than one generation of fry with my Apistogramma aggasizzi in the same tank.

Kind regards,

Dirk

 

Spawn 2 - Day 9

The babies are doing really well . . .

I have a count of 6 . . . really more than I was expecting

I hope the pair has bigger spawns soon

TM

 

Just an update . ..

The babies are getting bigger . . they are about 8mm now . . .

I left a bowl of unhatched Brine shrimp eggs in a bowl with some raw rice . .and now the brine shrimp have hatched and grown 3 X the size of newly hatched ones. . useless feed but my first attempt at growing them . .. .I am the first person to use raw rice as a food source too . .lol

 

Fry from spawn 2 have vanished but to my surprise . . 80+ eggs in a PVC pipe . . .]]

Spawn 3 day 1

Eggs look good. The female should eat all the infertile eggs by tomorrow

TM

 

The male responsible for the spontaneous breeding . . . (Shot @ high ISO )

Spawn 3 day 2

The eggs are being taken care off again. Sad to see the fry from the previous spawn being eaten. I plan to move the fry once they hit 5mm . . . this will prevent any of them being eaten.

TM

 

SPAWN 3 - day 3

I thought the female ate all the eggs when I saw the PVC pipe empty. It turns out that she moved them into another pipe . . .talk about choosy

I am planning to sell this pair of apistos . .any offers? Please PM

TM

 

The pair that I sold to Linga just spawned today . . . . I was not planning on even spawning them . . . gosh . . .

When the pair is sold I plan to siphon the wrigglers and put them with the other pair because she is also with wrigglers . . .

Really excited but really about the spawn but more excited that Pair 2 has a new home . .now I have space for a grow out

 

I've lost track of spawns now . . .

Here's some pics

FEMALE FROM PAIR 1 WITH WRIGGLERS



FEMALE FROM PAIR 2 WITH EGGS



MALE FROM PAIR 2 LOOKING MEAN AND BEAUTIFUL (My custom strain Pearl Blue Guppy)

 

Any ideas how to rid my tanks of that "candy floss" algae . .