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  1. Fastest fry growth rate..itll be hard to do if you use judge the runner. Since not all fry hatched the same time and not all fry get the same amount of feed ect... need to make it as fair as possible. I would Judge their growth rate as a group. I like a group of fry that are consistently the same size. Feeding alot of bbs will cause alot of runner atleast in my experience. I recommend finding a system in waterchange/feeding /food/temperature that work very well, stick to it, then just breed for a bigger fish.
  2. I do notice some male are more sexual active than other, plus those mosquito fish are great fry hunter
  3. It's very well built, but I had the same issue. I run mainly Swiss jetlifter so I already know the problem coming. The coop have 1 single fine row of hoes where the air come out and it will clog. The Swiss clogs also but they have more rows, bigger holes and a remove sleeves to clean the hose. I like the idea for directional flow, but that single row with fine hole is too air hungry. So I went around it and place an air stone coming from the bottom. Problem solved it also take less air to more the same amount of water.
  4. They are from softwater stream but the aquarium strain can handle a very wide range
  5. Yes if you kill them off they won't return..unless you add new plants
  6. Move all the fry within similar age group together, raise the temperature, feed them well and do alot of water change will max your fry growth. But if you do do all of that will the small bit of money really worth your extra time/effort. I say slow down and enjoy your fish is worth more. I also sell some fish throughout the year but it on my time and when I feel like shipping.
  7. If you don't kill them off they will always be in the aquarium even if you can't see them. I use a goat deworm. When I use to have hydra I never get any white cloud fry
  8. Beautiful conformation, I do enjoy a long slimer fish than the wide big platy cross going around
  9. This young male is 3 month old and started growing his sword already. I'm not sure how his body will turn out but only time will tell
  10. They are between orange and brick, this line also throw green. I'm trying to get their body and sword length right first before I start working on color
  11. Let's see what they will produce and what gene is hidden within gastromyzon double redfin They would be a great addition to the bottom of my whitecloud/ rainbow shiner aquarium
  12. scarlet badis ...interesting. I'm not a professional or anything but this is how i would approach this. Set large goal to hit yearly or very few years and set mini goals to hit very few months. • yearly/multi years goals.. what i would work on is strengthening what the fish already have. If the fish is red make your family more red..bring the max out of your fish. I would raise the highest number of fish you can so you can select future breeder from. • mini goals ... what I would work on everyday/weekly/monthly? I would keep the feeding/maintenance the same in every aquarium. Every set of fry will be kept separate with their birthdate so every fry gets judged the same. For example, it's not fair to cull a younger fish at 4 months vs. a more mature fish at 7 months. make sure you can house all the growing fry and the all the breeder and future breeders. As for scarlet badis I'm not 100% how well they can handle inbreeding. For example Xiphophorus can handle inbreeding for multiple generation without and issue. White cloud can handle inbreeding for 4-5 generation before they need to be crossed out, and 8-10 generation on linebreeding if you know how to do it. Inbreeding isn't the same as linebreeding, inbreeding could be siblings or another random relative fish without reason. Linebreeding is very controlled. You'll have to name breeders and keep record. Linebreeding is where you hug one side of the family either sire or dam. if you have plenty of space I would recommend starting 2 family at the same time, itll give you something to cross to. Chances are you wouldn't want to cross you family back into a normal badis. I recommend you cull hard and always keep the most healthy fish over the most colorful fish, itll be worth it in the long run. Making your family of fish more colorful is easy, making your family of fish healthier is way harder. Consistency in size, healthy, color, and temperament is what I look for. last and not least enjoying the results, i love going back to old photos and seeing my family changes over time.
  13. Couldn't get any good photo of him...he is 6month and from a very small batch i bred this year
  14. That is very true but that would hurt the sword length and hurt the slim body length
  15. I been looking for some fancy livebearers that would work with my setup for a few years now. • Cooler temperatures • Softwater • 6.5-6.8 ph • Heavy waterchange • Smaller aquarium size Started with guppies and mollies but they just fell apart in my water over a few weeks. The few time I picked up platies didn't work out or never bred. I was able to start with this line swortails and this line seems to adjust well with my setup. They are on their 3rd generation, going from 55-70f and 80-90% cooler water changes. Now since they are surviving the fun began lol It's time to start setting up breeding goals. • Color - haven't really decide what would be more fun and more of an challenge • Size - most breeder would breed for the largest fish, but I'm breeding for a smaller fish. It doesn't make sense since I mainly have 10-20gallon aquarium. I can keep them in bigger group. • Less aggression - I want to be able to put a decent group in smaller aquarium • Conformation - looking for a longer stream fish over a thick body fish. A very long sword. This project will be a male line project. Male line project is a project where all decisions is made to improve the males of species regardless how the female looks. Female line project is the opposite where all decisions is made for the female conformation regardless how those males turn out. For example it's very hard to get a slim long casting male from female line you bred to be big and thick Hopefully all goes well
  16. So the line you picked up is from Phil Kukulski I believe he hasn't work with them for long so almost directly from wild or maybe the first generation. They are also a bit more north than my blue line. here's a photo from Zack of that line. And here a photo of the blue like I picked up Itll be interested to see what that family kicked out. I haven't introduced this blue line of mine into the hobby yet due to them not meeting my expectations. They are still kicking out deformity and not hardy. If I didn't pick up the GA reds I would have try some of those also...so let me know how they do for you and what you get out of them?.
  17. That ratio is fine but that's alot of breeder in my opinion. I normally put 2 pair in a fully planted aquarium and wait til you see freeswimming fry. They are very small and won't be able to to microworm right away...I recommend using a very fine powder to start with
  18. Rainbow shiner would work..but you'll need a good size school, I also keep rosy barb with white cloud
  19. Looks like a start of waste away disease. I also get that ever now and then. I would normally treat the whole aquarium with an antibiotic/dewormer fish food for 14 days. Seem to be work well. Antibiotic I use is gram negative so it doesn't hurt your cycle
  20. I have kept both together before and I recommend a bigger school of shiner. They seem to act up when the school is too small.
  21. Sailfin Gudgeon or Microphysogobio tafangensis breeding project So this is just another cold water fish I wanted to add to the fishroom. Not much information on the net, so lets learn and grow together. So I order 2 pair to work with costing me 80$ each import from China Here's 1 of the male Heres 1 of the female Currently they are living in my display 33long with an aquaclear 70. They seem to like carnivore pellets over veg pellets. They enjoy hiding under rocks if there isn't any dither fish. So far I have 10 fry ....
  22. I had the same problem earlier year of breeding rainbow shiner..they was very bad picking up bacteria infection. Now my line maybe more inbred but seem to do better in home aquarium setup
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