Yeah... yeah... I know... lots of people have had baby briggs before me... but these are my first babies!
Experimenting with two batches- one hatched out Sunday- I've got them in an unheated fresh tank set up next to a window to get algae growth...
... they don't seem very active- I hope they're not too cold being next to the window.
The ones I left to hatch "in-tank" (don't know if they'll be eaten by dwarf crays/spixis) hatched this morning too!!!! They do seem to be visibly more active... (but they're also in much warmer water). I just hope the Spixis don't eat all the little ones.
(now a couple of egg sacs have hatched I can start destroying the others)... the two that hatched are both fairly small egg-sacs so I shouldn't be overrun with young... I'm guessing two dozen from the first batch... second batch they're still emerging but it looks about the same size.
There are a couple of HUGE egg batches stuck to the lid that I will freeze now I know I have viable young- can only imagine how many babies that would produce.
Can already tell that there is a variety in colours of the young- some with visibly darker shells than others- some have a definate purple lip on their shells already.
I had thought the father was a little Ivory guy (Gala) who has been breeding with my burgundy stripe (Granny Smith) non-stop the last few months- but Saturday I caught a dark-stripe-purple (Braeburn) laying eggs early in the morning before light's on... so she may be the mother of them instead... not sure who the father is. I have seen Gala mating with her on one occasion.
If Gala (Ivory) is dad and Braeburn (DSP) mum that means there is a very wide possibility of phenotypes for the offspring... yeah! I'm hoping I get one blue-striped out of the batch- that one will be kept.
Known adult Briggs who could be responsible:
2 DSP both female ... (Braeburn & McIntosh)
1 Burgundy stripe female. (Granny Smith)
1 Ivory only known male in the tank (Gala)
1 Ivory unknown (Roma)
1 magenta stripe unknown (Jazz)
Experimenting with two batches- one hatched out Sunday- I've got them in an unheated fresh tank set up next to a window to get algae growth...
... they don't seem very active- I hope they're not too cold being next to the window.
The ones I left to hatch "in-tank" (don't know if they'll be eaten by dwarf crays/spixis) hatched this morning too!!!! They do seem to be visibly more active... (but they're also in much warmer water). I just hope the Spixis don't eat all the little ones.
(now a couple of egg sacs have hatched I can start destroying the others)... the two that hatched are both fairly small egg-sacs so I shouldn't be overrun with young... I'm guessing two dozen from the first batch... second batch they're still emerging but it looks about the same size.
There are a couple of HUGE egg batches stuck to the lid that I will freeze now I know I have viable young- can only imagine how many babies that would produce.
Can already tell that there is a variety in colours of the young- some with visibly darker shells than others- some have a definate purple lip on their shells already.
I had thought the father was a little Ivory guy (Gala) who has been breeding with my burgundy stripe (Granny Smith) non-stop the last few months- but Saturday I caught a dark-stripe-purple (Braeburn) laying eggs early in the morning before light's on... so she may be the mother of them instead... not sure who the father is. I have seen Gala mating with her on one occasion.
If Gala (Ivory) is dad and Braeburn (DSP) mum that means there is a very wide possibility of phenotypes for the offspring... yeah! I'm hoping I get one blue-striped out of the batch- that one will be kept.
Known adult Briggs who could be responsible:
2 DSP both female ... (Braeburn & McIntosh)
1 Burgundy stripe female. (Granny Smith)
1 Ivory only known male in the tank (Gala)
1 Ivory unknown (Roma)
1 magenta stripe unknown (Jazz)