After working for months to clear my tank and my two blue gouramis of capillaria I now have not one, but TWO spawns swimming in the tank along with their parents who haven't laid a fin on them. They are about 10 days apart and parents were getting cosy again just now. There are probably 300 fish in that tank now. I never expected to be able to raise any this time around, still getting set up. Brine shrimp should be ready tomorrow. I had a hard enough time rehoming a single spawn. But they are soooo cute!! Ignore the algae. For some reason, Hans Peter doesn't want them down on that end of the tank. ;-)
Second spawn looks like eggs still. SO two females? You must have figured out your water concerns.
What'cha going to do with a thousand blue gouramis or even 100?
Some tetras or cichlids would limit the number that survived and might spawn themselves as a result.
Only one female and the "eggs" were swimming. Poor pic, I guess. They are all free swimming now. And Hans Peter and Celeste were dancing again yesterday. I scooped out some and put them in a different tank. What can I put in the main that will eat them but be nice to everyone else? Guppies, I guess, but I would have to remove Hans Peter for a while.
At full screen I can see the fry swimming around in the blue area. Lots of them.
and in the open area on top! sooooo tiny!
Fantastic! What a great reward after your trials and tribulations cleaning up the Capillaria.
Yeah! Now I have FOUR spawns in the tank. Fortunately, I have a store that will take them. I need to see if I can get a pic with the different sizes all in the same frame.
Spawn #6 is in the tank and I am seriously giving consideration to just busting it up. Hans Peter is too dilligent in his duties as protector. Meanwhile, the first spawn is starting to look like gouramis!
With a nice, chubby otocinclus for scale. What an adorable little baby gourami. The LFSs are going to love you.
They are darling, aren't they? Randy ADORES them. He hates giving them up later, too. He was really put out when I gave Kathleen his favorite one ;-)