mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 17, 2021 Author Share Posted July 17, 2021 Right and the platy watching whats happening from above 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXInkedPhoenixX Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Platy: "Hey guys what are you doing...." 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 18, 2021 Author Share Posted July 18, 2021 Giving serious consideration to looking under the palustris cave and warming up the egg tumbler based off the bottom center of this photo. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 19, 2021 Author Share Posted July 19, 2021 Day 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 @Cory might have some tips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Cory Posted July 19, 2021 Administrators Share Posted July 19, 2021 Pods, seed shrimp, baby snails to eat leftover food, along with other micro foods help. Can be difficult to get the right mix to raise the babies efficiently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share Posted July 20, 2021 Day 10 going strong. Double digits 🥳🤯 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 This is such an amazing thread. Congratulations! They’re adorable! Fingers crossed you’re right about the ones in the cave!!! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Combo of last two days 4 Pao palustris fry going strong 12 days old now. They are growing by the day with 2 who stay together 2 are usually out and exploring the Ziss breeder box. So far so good. Day 11 Day 12 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 23, 2021 Author Share Posted July 23, 2021 day 13 3 of 4 together. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan W8 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Amazing! Thats so cool.. now if my angels would behave... ughhh 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 Day 16 hunting live baby brine 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 (edited) An interesting behavior noted for adults is the dominant male and one female have been in his flower pot cave since the 17th of July (9 days). The last 3 days have been even more noteworthy because the male and female take turns leaving the cave for food or to chase other puffers and fish away. Now the question is when to check the cave and pull the almost certain fry from a puffer species that I am confident is saying is a fairly prolific cave spawner with parental care, to some degree, in my colony setup. Edited July 27, 2021 by mountaintoppufferkeeper 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 On 7/27/2021 at 12:14 PM, mountaintoppufferkeeper said: An interesting behavior noted for adults is the dominant male and one female have been in his flower pot cave since the 17th of July (9 days). The last 3 days have been even more noteworthy because the male and female take turns leaving the cave for food or to chase other puffers and fish away. Now the question is when to check the cave and pull the almost certain fry from a puffer species that I am confident is saying is a fairly prolific cave spawner with parental care, to some degree, in my colony setup. That’s exciting! I’m a fan of actually not pulling eggs or fry, but in a situation like this where pulling them is imperative to their survival, I would wait until seeing some physical sign of eggs or free swimming fry. Maybe you could rotate the cave somewhat so as not to really disturb the fish in an effort to see into the cave? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 28, 2021 Author Share Posted July 28, 2021 Day 17. Interesting that the fry have that "target"on their sides but the adults do not. Looking forward to seeing when the adult coloration comes in and what mix of genders we have in the 3 growing puffers from this batch 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSH OUTDOORS Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Very cool! What do you think? Eye spot to deter predators from the important end? You are making it very hard to not set up another tank. I have plenty that are getting live foods, what's one more right?!?!? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 28, 2021 Author Share Posted July 28, 2021 @DSH OUTDOORS LOL. Sorry about that yes just one more tank should be finewhich has now got me settimg up a second rack system :). Im assuming the eye spot is for predator confusion alomg with their extremely fast speed bursts from that puffer tail its probably an excellent combo. Very neat to see the drastically different pattern between the fry with the red spot eye spots, the parents with no red at all, and the adult male darker pattern and different head shape vs the females. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancing Matt Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 I thought eyespot also as soon as I saw it. really cool observation about the differences in coloration and patterning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 30, 2021 Author Share Posted July 30, 2021 Day 19. Getting sizable every feeding and behaving more like puffers with two way interactions now. Happy I have the COOP Ziss brine shrimp hatcher process going well for my set ups; certainly a primarybreason these started feeding well and have been getting bigger seemingly every hour. Almost to our daphnia,scuds, bloodworms with vitachem, and sub adult cherry shrimp stage of foods for these first few F1 P.palustris. 4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacy Z Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Omg those little tails curl. I’m in love! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted July 31, 2021 Author Share Posted July 31, 2021 (edited) Big day today day 21 ..... we have moved the puffer fry to their first grow out, a 9 gallon, in the left rack system. I expect they will stay there for a few weeks before we quick swap out to a 20 or 28. Their upstairs roomates Pelvicachromis subocellatus "Moanda", in a 28 gallon on the shelf above, just decided today was time to leave the cave and introduced me to their first kids. Edited July 31, 2021 by mountaintoppufferkeeper 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXInkedPhoenixX Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 MOOORRE BABBBIIIESSS!!!!!!😍 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 @mountaintoppufferkeeper How are these little guys going? And did you end up pulling fry from the cave? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted September 18, 2021 Author Share Posted September 18, 2021 @Crabby 7 Pelvicachromis subocellatus "Moanda" fry were pulled after 2 weeks and going strong. They share their grow out tank with a couple of month old limia Perugia fry . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 How are those Melkong fry doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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