More Eggs In the Cube

There are a few more eggs from the paleatus tank today and two from the panda tank last night. That pushes my egg count to 63. Today is day two for the first batch of eggs.

Betta Fry

Robin "imposed" two pairs of bettas on me for breeding. Since he figured I had nothing much to do with my free time. (Nevermind the waterchanges for one 42gal tank, five 15gal tanks, two 20gal tanks, one five gallon tank, seven 2.5gal tanks, and not counting the hospital tank and a couple of one gallon tanks.) Anyway, the first pair didn't yield a successful spawn. But the pair I put in last friday did. I took out the female sunday night when I noticed tiny black dots on the surface thinking they were fertile eggs. There was no bubblenest by the way so I thought it was a bust. But come monday morning, I saw very tiny fry swimming about near the surface. I started feeding them eggyolk which I did thrice a day. I kept the father in the tank to find out how he'd raise the fry as how male bettas normally would in the wild. I'd see him gather fry in his mouth when I drop food in the tank. I'm going on faith here that he ain't eating them. I'm planning three simultaneous spawns next and I'm thinking of separating the father just to see how that goes as well. Hopefully when I get the hang of this I'd be able to breed the bettas like clockwork.

Panda Fry

Yesterday, I decided to overhaul the 15gal breeding tank that housed 8 C. Pandas. The plan was to transfer the 8 pandas to the 20gal that housed the 5 other c. pandas, rid the 15gal of snails and move in a trilineatus breeding set there. But while I was pulling out the plants from the 15gal, I noticed about 5 tiny panda fry about three weeks old dashing about the tank. It was a pleasant surprise considering I never saw eggs being laid in that tank. After a long debate with myself, I decided to put back the breeding set in the 15gal. They seem to multiply pretty well there on their own. I didn't want to mess up their little community.

Later on, I saw a tiny transparent shrimp in the tank where I put the plants temporarily. Amazing what can trhive in an extablished tank.

Paleatus Eggs

After noticing that my C. Paleatus have reached breeding stage, I moved them out of the home tank and into their own private tank. The tank was well planted with generous clumps of moss to hide the eggs. I was hoping to leave the eggs there but after realizing that the parents are able to locate the eggs afterall, I started pulling out the eggs with the help of an internet pre-paid card. I was able to take out about 54 eggs and at least 10 were left in places that I cannot possibly reach. I put the eggs in a small container with a drop of methylene blue and an air stone. Today is day one, since they were laid yesterday afternoon. I hope they make it.

Kiwi

My one and only baby panda is now foraging along with the adult cory's. Swimming with the big boys. I named him Kiwi. It's sort of our generic name for baby cory's because they are practically impossible to tell apart when many. His black markings are noticeably darker than the ones on my other pandas which I suspect is due to too much inbreeding. Kiwi must have been born from two different lines.