Barbvday Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Guys… I did not realized how MASSIVE goodeid fry got. I was shocked and it took me a while to realize that these random fish the size of a juvenile guppy were babies! here they are swimming next to coral red pencilfish 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 On 6/18/2022 at 9:11 AM, Barbvday said: Guys… I did not realized how MASSIVE goodeid fry got. I was shocked and it took me a while to realize that these random fish the size of a juvenile guppy were babies! here they are swimming next to coral red pencilfish Awesome! What species of Goodeid are they?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbvday Posted June 18, 2022 Author Share Posted June 18, 2022 On 6/18/2022 at 12:05 PM, Fish Folk said: Awesome! What species of Goodeid are they?? Blue tail goodeid (Ataeniobius toweri anteojitos) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylaneff1 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 Super cool! I was shocked the first time my X. doadrioi gave birth too. Crazy that such huge babies can fit inside the mothers. It must be so uncomfortable for them! 😅 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 @Barbvdaycan you tell me a little about your setup for them? I have a group coming from Greg Sage this Wednesday and want to fine tune my setup if I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbvday Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 On 6/19/2022 at 7:12 PM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: @Barbvdaycan you tell me a little about your setup for them? I have a group coming from Greg Sage this Wednesday and want to fine tune my setup if I can. I have them in a 75 gallon tank with live plants (amazons, vallisneria, Anubias barteri and bucephalandra) also have water sprite and Hygroryza as floating plants. they do hang out on the top section of the tank so I think floating plants help a lot… PH is around 7.4 Hardness is 150 kh 120 temp 82 nitrates around 40 ppm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 @BarbvdayAre they on their own? Any tank mates? Filtration and flow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbvday Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 On 6/19/2022 at 11:01 PM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: @BarbvdayAre they on their own? Any tank mates? Filtration and flow? I only got a pair (and now the babies) since I got them at an auction in a local group. they’re in there with coral red pencilfish, one angelfish, super red L/F bristlenose, rainbow cichlids and mystery snails. I have an FX4 so flow is heavy on one end and they don’t seem to mind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I’m getting 6-8 juveniles. I’ll have them in a 20 g long with no other inhabitants. Eventually I’ll get some Ancistrus plecos in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjum Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 On 6/19/2022 at 4:12 PM, Beardedbillygoat1975 said: @Barbvdaycan you tell me a little about your setup for them? I have a group coming from Greg Sage this Wednesday and want to fine tune my setup if I can. Ooh what are you getting??! I have my eye on Z. tequila from him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaHobbyist123 Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 I've been wondering where you can find trout goodeids(Ilyodon furcidens). If anyone has any info let me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degare Aquatics Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 How are your Blue tail Goodeids ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy's Fish Den Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 Blue tail goodeid fry is probably one of the larger fry of the goodeid species that I have kept, and they only have a few at a time. The adults get quite large as well, I have some that are pushing 3 inches. If you are keeping them, or any other goodeids in a community type tank, I would watch them closely with some fish, and especially corydoras. I had a group in a 40 breeder tank with some Venezuelanus cory and every so often I would find a dead cory in the tank. Then, one day i watched one of the big females go down and nail the cory a couple of times. At my next local fish club meeting I was talking to a guy who has spawned a bunch of different goodeids and he told me that he has had them do that as well and that was most likely why I was finding dead cory in my tank. So, I pulled all the cory cats out of my goodeid tanks and now I have a single or a pair of some strain of bristlenose pleco in each of my goodeid tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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