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05-16-2008, 06:21 AM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Luton, England
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|  Blue Acara pair spawned Last week my Blue Acara pair spawned  this is the first spawning that I know of and Mum and Dad have been great!The babies hatched 4 days ago after Mum and Dad moved them from a flat rock to the back of the tank and once free swimming the amount of babies was huge! numbering probably around 1000. Sadly in the 4 days since the other tank occupants have been picking them off and I estimate about 100 are left. Its extremely interesting to watch as I always thought the Tiger Barbs would be the biggest threat but the parents have kept these guys in check and its the RTB who is the biggest culprit they are so SLY and my one is unbelieveable in his quest for a few fry (Considering the size difference between him and Parents!). I've moved 13 babies into a breeder trap for the time being to at least save some of the first brood, I'll post some picks of the pair and the surviving fry later 
__________________ 55 Gallon - 2 Blue Acara, 1 Neon Sword tails, 4 Cory Rabauti, 7 Tiger Barbs, 1 RTB Shark, 1 Albino BN, 1 normal BN 15 Gallon - 10 sword tail growing babies and 2 Chain loach 30 Gal Empty 10 Gal Empty |
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05-16-2008, 06:34 AM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Luton, England
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| Photo's - Not the clearest and unfortunately I didn't get any photo's of the eggs or when there were masses and masses of fry, but hey nevermind! 
__________________ 55 Gallon - 2 Blue Acara, 1 Neon Sword tails, 4 Cory Rabauti, 7 Tiger Barbs, 1 RTB Shark, 1 Albino BN, 1 normal BN 15 Gallon - 10 sword tail growing babies and 2 Chain loach 30 Gal Empty 10 Gal Empty Last edited by Lovingmytank; 05-16-2008 at 09:07 AM. |
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05-16-2008, 09:01 AM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Carolina
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| Awesome!!! 
__________________ 30G Plants ~ Java Moss Inhabitants ~ 5 Albino Tiger Barbs, 1 Firemouth & 1 Sailfin Pleco - L083 (Rebel) 90G Plants ~ None Inhabitants ~ 6 Red Zebras, 5 Aeci, 4 Yellow Labs & 3 Hai Reef Other Pets ~ 3 Rats (Boo Bear-Mya-Kira), 2 Horses (Sassy-Sunny), & 2 Dogs (Chance-Ivan)  |
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05-17-2008, 12:19 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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| Congrats!!! I always loved blue acaras.
__________________ 75G-4 silver dollars, 2 angels,2 BN plecos, 1 RL pleco ,2 golden opaline gouramis,4 doradids,Male nicarguensis cichlid, 1 golden wonder killie 55G-3 discus, 1 keyhole, 1 ram 30G-2 angels, 3 corys, 2 kribs 30G-1 angel, 3 cories, 4 harlequin rasboras, 3 pristella tetras 30gal- 2 cockatoo apistos, 5 rummy-nose tetras(newest tank!) 20G-waiting for ideas |
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05-25-2008, 08:51 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Omaha, NE
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| Congrats on the spawn!  Have you still got some of those 13 fry? They growing out in a separate tank now? BV
__________________ "The more it eats, the more it excretes."  75 gal.: 9" oscar, 5" salvini (M) 38 gal.: 1 opaline gourami, 15 orange platies, 1 peppermint pleco 20 gal.: blue cray growout Crayfish breeding project tanks. |
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05-29-2008, 06:12 AM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Luton, England
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| An update! All the babies have been eaten! The parents did a valiant job protecting however whenever I fed the tank the parents would abandon post (How greedy ) and 9 days after free swimming the last few babies disappeared.I didn't have time to setup a new tank for the 13 babies I had in the trap so I released them back to the parents. Its all been a fascinating learning experience and next time I will be ready to remove the fry and get them into a grow on! I've got the 30 Gal empty so that would be the perfect tank to setup and get cycling. I've lowered the temp in the tank now back to 23-24C so they are unlikely to spawn again for now, the original trigger did seem to be the flat stone on the gravel and raising to 28C Watch this space.....
__________________ 55 Gallon - 2 Blue Acara, 1 Neon Sword tails, 4 Cory Rabauti, 7 Tiger Barbs, 1 RTB Shark, 1 Albino BN, 1 normal BN 15 Gallon - 10 sword tail growing babies and 2 Chain loach 30 Gal Empty 10 Gal Empty Last edited by Lovingmytank; 05-29-2008 at 06:15 AM. |
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