CornAndCrawlers

My goals are to just get 8 fry to be healthy and thriving for 2 months so I can get some breeder award points (and then I will raise until they are big enough to be donated to my club). I have some Hikari first bite powder, ill go sprinkle some in now incase the baby brine are too big.

Just discovered some fry today. So far the parents seem to be pretty attentive, they chase any otocinclus catfish away and occasionally grab one in their mouth and move them. My thought was to just to keep feeding live and frozen baby brine shrimp--as well as feeding the adults blood worms and flakes, and leaving the fry in the same tank with the parents. Has anyone bred African jewel cichlids before? Do I actually need to separate the fry like the internet suggests? Looking for tips from people with personal experience. thank you

2nd attempt = Failure Despite cleaning the tank out thoroughly I noticed a few tiny planaria crawling amongst the marbles. Either the planaria ate any eggs that were dropped or no eggs were dropped. Before I make attempt #3 I am going to eradicate the planaria with chemicals, do a big water change, and keep conditioning my emerald eye rasboras with live b baby brine and frozen cyclops.

The four adults were just removed. For the next 3-4 days I will observe the tank. If any fry are seen I intend the first foods to be hiker first bites and egg yolk water.

I followed whiteclouddynasty's advice and he led me to a successful batch of fry that are now three months old. Congratulations on your new found fry!

My goal is to also achieve a breeders award plaque from my club. Congratulations!

The only egg scatterer I’ve bred has been white cloud mountain minnows. All they required was conditioning with food, then moving the prepped adults into a smaller container with slightly warmer water and spawning mops. In my first attempt at breeding emerald eye rasboras I replicated this process with no success. For my second attempt I have made three changes. My normal water ph is around 7.4 and has a high GH. Now I am using a softer water with a PH of 6.7 and some tannins in it. The second change I made was to cover the bottom of my breeding tank with marbles. White clouds are pretty peaceful parents but I believe the emerald eye rasboras more readily eat their eggs and young so this new substrate should assist in fry survivors. The last change is light. When I bred white clouds the overhead light was one for 8 hours or longer, for emerald eye rasboras the light will be off, they will get dim light only from neighboring tanks. The plan is to remove the parents in three days and then observe for three days to see if any fry appear. If that fails I will reevaluate, make a change and try attempt number three. Here’s the test strips showing my normal water used in breeding attempt number one, and the store bought water used in attempt number two.

I bought a bunch of Java ferns from aquarium coop and just tossed them all straight into east planters without removing them from the plastic pots or the steel wool/whatever the moist packing medium is. If I removed the plastic and the steel wool I figure the rhizome will do better but I’m not sure how I’d get it to stay in the east planter. I don’t mind slower growth, just hoping this lazy drop and plop method I did doesn’t kill all the Java Ferns.

Bought some Anubias from my LFS and glued them to a piece of hard scape.

Guppies. I know the internet says very few fish eat Cyanobacteria, but when I had some fancy guppies in my tank they ate all that gross crap up.

I intentionally have a tank with scuds and tons of guppy grass and frog bit but I havnt figured out how to harvest them. Do you have any links or descriptions for this plastic trap?

*I posted this same question in the NANFA forum but this forum is waaaay more active* I have a 75 gallon planted tank with small gravel substrate on one side and sand substrate on the other. I believe the substrate and size of tank should be adequate for bluegills to spawn, but I am unsure if I should stock:1 male + 1 female2 male + 1 female1 male + 2 female2 male + 2 female If anyone has experience with bluegills and getting them to spawn that would be greatly appreciated. *I live in a state where it is legal to catch bluegills and keep them with a fishing license, iowa*

This female guppy spawned some fry on 11/2, everything seemed fine but today I noticed she was bleeding. Is this a natural part of birth or something else?

Thank you for linking that! And how are your getting these great photos? Are you just placing your phones camera lens into the part of the microscope where you would normally be placing your eye?

Can you share name/brand of the microscope you are using for these outstanding photos? Or link where I can buy one. this journal is amazing.