This was a surprise! Looks like our Brilliant Rasbora have been busy awhile. We moved the breeding adults out, and already have found a lot of tiny fry swimming around.
These guys are doing great! They’re fully onto a daily cross of finely crushed flake food (we rotate between 3x varieties of Bug Bites flakes — normal Tropical, Color-enhancing, and Spirulina) and live BBS. Sadly, we couldn’t make the tailgate as Sunday’s are never doable for us. But! We were in D.C. Saturday, and traded Rams and Acara for Buenos Aires Tetras and Normal Andinoacaras from a PVAS member. We totally feel that frustration of being soooo close with some species, but just not enough for BAP. Our bronze corys have spawned a lot, but we’ve only been able to successfully raise about 7x ... and those from separate spawns. We’ve started a video about 4-5 times... without success. Just lost our most promising batch to what appears to be fungus poisoning. We lost a huge haul of Laetacara Araguai. We think the pH changed and chemistry crashed (maybe ammonium converted to ammonia). Guess it’s all part of the adventure! We’re waiting on a pair of Yellow Rock Kribensis to spawn. She swallowed her first batch...
How do they fare? These super little guys are so hard to grow reliably until they can take BBS. Congratulations on the BAP points.
Preparing for the Great Fish Tailgate, I took inventory of my tanks to learn that I have enough Celestial Pearl Danios to qualify for BAP points, but it looks like I lost all my Asian Rummynose Rasboras :( Will try with those again prior to the end of year deadline.
Thanks! We’ll see how many make it. Should be some infusoria for a little while in there. Lightly diffused with Sera Micron and New Life Spectrum fry powder this morning.
These guys are doing great! They’re fully onto a daily cross of finely crushed flake food (we rotate between 3x varieties of Bug Bites flakes — normal Tropical, Color-enhancing, and Spirulina) and live BBS. Sadly, we couldn’t make the tailgate as Sunday’s are never doable for us. But! We were in D.C. Saturday, and traded Rams and Acara for Buenos Aires Tetras and Normal Andinoacaras from a PVAS member. We totally feel that frustration of being soooo close with some species, but just not enough for BAP. Our bronze corys have spawned a lot, but we’ve only been able to successfully raise about 7x ... and those from separate spawns. We’ve started a video about 4-5 times... without success. Just lost our most promising batch to what appears to be fungus poisoning. We lost a huge haul of Laetacara Araguai. We think the pH changed and chemistry crashed (maybe ammonium converted to ammonia). Guess it’s all part of the adventure! We’re waiting on a pair of Yellow Rock Kribensis to spawn. She swallowed her first batch...
How do they fare? These super little guys are so hard to grow reliably until they can take BBS. Congratulations on the BAP points.
Preparing for the Great Fish Tailgate, I took inventory of my tanks to learn that I have enough Celestial Pearl Danios to qualify for BAP points, but it looks like I lost all my Asian Rummynose Rasboras :( Will try with those again prior to the end of year deadline.
Thanks! We’ll see how many make it. Should be some infusoria for a little while in there. Lightly diffused with Sera Micron and New Life Spectrum fry powder this morning.
Congratulations on the fry! Great video, too.