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I've been on vacation in Hawaii (Big Island) the past few days; what a site to see for aquarium/terrarium lovers! Lush forests, amazing terrain, and even a fish farm! I checked out Hawaii Tropical Fish Gardens, an outdoor breeding facility, and was not disappointed! They have outstanding guppies, swordtails, angels, goldfish, and plants. Worth a stop if you're on the Big Island!
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Danio erythromicron, the "Emerald Dwarf Rasbora" is actually a very purple fish when well-fed and happy. If you have a small, well planted tank, that fish plus a betta would make for a nice "purple fish" setup.
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Lucania goodei is such an amazing and easy to spawn fish! It's like a Pencil Fish you can collect in the wild! Its a mystery to me why there are not more of them in the hobby.
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Next group of fry are starting to emerge! Appears to be mostly CPDs in this batch, we shall see what develops.
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Happy New Week all! The crypt beds are starting to look amazing; a field of pink with fry hovering above! The second batch of Golden White Cloud fry are almost ready for the grow out tank. There's probably about 50 of them for this batch.
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Just a few quick updates.
1. The worm farm crashed, so I am restarting it. It probably needs more than 2L of water for how heavily I was feeding it.
2. The Lucanea goodei fry are even larger than their older white cloud tank mates!
3. The Bucephalandra is doing very well on the sponge filters.
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@Beardedbillygoat1975Outstanding! I am very much looking forward to your results!
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@Streetwise Dumping mulm into aquariums is always a good idea in moderation. LRB Aquatics even sells his mulm on his website!
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@Streetwise Thank you! We'll see how it goes, I've been curious if this is a good way to grow them. "Hot rodding" the sponge filter with some additional "green filtration".
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Reinvesting the proceeds from fish and shrimp sales into some Bucecephalandra. I'm going to try and grow them on the sponge filters. My theory is that as the sponge filters accumulate mulm, this will act as a steady source of nutrients for these slow-growing plants to encourage fast growth.
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Loads of fry frolicking around this morning. I love how this small Bluefin Killi already looks like their parent despite being only a centimeter long!
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Also, the first White Cloud Fry are leaving the breeding rack. Just 13 for now, there are probably 100 growing up at this time.
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Good morning all! I hope your weekend is going well. I was starting to wonder as I had not had much fish spawning going on in the breeding tank but I was fortunate enough to wake up to this.
There are probably 150 viable eggs in the egg catcher this morning, it looks like a jar of caviar! I thought everyone would enjoy. Lets see how many I can raise.
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A "cool" lesson i learned today is that you can use a heat sealer and the gel cold packs that shipped food and other cold items come in to make your own cold packs for shipping! The water soluable material in the cold packs is Carboxymethyl cellulose and it is super easy to seal in a bag and freeze. Very handy for shipping fish in the summertime!
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I am pleased to demonstrate that I have fully redeemed myself for my first failure with the Bluefin killifish. Here they are, not only breeding, but finally taking flake food as well. What an incredible month these fish have had!
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Here is a sub-adult Elassoma gilberti. Although not yet fully grown, his colors are still amazingly beautiful.
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Happy Friday everyone! A tank full of fry and crypts, what could be better? Have a great weekend everyone!
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@JohannesExcellent! I am looking forward to it!
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A Saturday morning surprise! The sweet taste of success. Lucania goodei fry!
After some digging around I was able to remove about 15 of them! Lets see how many I can get to adulthood.
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@JohannesThank you! So far the racks are working well and I haven't had an aquarium come crashing down when I pull it out. Always happy to answer any future questions you may have!
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I love your kitty! So cute! Also, congrats on the new fry!
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My latest batch of cherry shrimp fry is finally exhibiting the colors I was going for; rich red color on the young shrimp. Hopefully they will be more consistently of a richer red color as they grow. This line of Neos is incredible; all of the color of a red King Kong without the fragility!
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L. goodei females are starting to get fat with pink bellies! Let's see if any fry begin to appear.
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A tale of two tissue cultures. I love tissue cultures, and I love crypt Pink Panther from ADA. Here is an experiment I set up to see if I could grow tissue cultures emersed vs submerged. The idea was that the emersed grown would grow faster and since tissue cultures are emersed, this transition would be easy. The tanks are identical, the fertilizer type and amount was identical, and the substate is identical; black sand. Both tanks had identifcal air ventilation.
As can be seen here, the emersed grown tissue cultures have melted over the past month whereas the submerged ones are thriving. Im not sure why this happened. My best guess is thr fertilizer in the emmersed plant tank was too strong relative to water volume and burned the plants. Anyone have any ideas?
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An Aquarist's Journey
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Moved the latest batch of golden white clouds to their growout tank. There are approximately 65 of them! Can't wait to see them as a large, grown up school.