The Oto Journal

Update 01-Mar-2010

Evening check. Found more non viable eggs. :o(

Test Tank: (4) bad eggs found and removed. That leaves (7) good in this tank.

Main Tank: Found quite a few bad ones. Seperated a few from good eggs. Didn't bother counting at this time. I may try later before the lights go out. Prepping water for a top off in here.

Hatching expected late night/early morning. Will know more tomorrow afternoon.
 
Update 02-Feb-2010

Hatching today. Little fry guys everywhere.

Main tank: Found several little fry on the glass. Still have a few from the previous batches in there too.

Test tank: At first was discouraged. Checked the stem of L. Repens and found nothing. No bad eggs, no unhatched eggs and no fry. Initial check of the tank...nothing. Now this tank isn't designed for the best of visibility. It's an algae play field. Finally spotted (2) fry in here. Hopefull of more but we'll see. If successfull, it could be at least a week to find out judging by how fast the other little buckaroo has grown.

Took some fry shots so we'll see if any turned out well.
 
Well....here's the only good shot for the day. This is one of the newbies hatched this morning.
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Update 03-Mar-2010

Test Tank: Still could only find (2) wigglers. Starting to doubt the capabilities of this tank even though ideal conditions.

Main Tank: Found (15) wigglers over here. Topped off tank and added veggie flakes.
 
Update 04-Feb-2010

All continues to do well in both tanks.

Main: Still counted (15) wigglers today. A few of them are getting nice and pudgy. Guess adding the extra ground up flakes might be paying off.

Test: Found a third wiggler in here. Yay!! That now makes (4) in the tank. Three that are a couple days old and the one that is four weeks old. Might be a good sign here that the tank will support fry development.
 
Some shots from today. These guys are about 2 weeks old.
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Update 05-Feb-2010

Nightly check and all still looking well. Fry numbers still up. Only found (1) small wiggler over in the test tank. Hard to see in there. ;o)

I'm not ready to draw in conclusions from this latest round of experimenting but it does seem to be better on the fry to keep the air stone on full time. Probably keeping O2 levels up and added circulation. Just my thinking at this time. May be able to verify with next spawn.

I know I mentioned it a while back but definately deserves repeating...it so cool to watch a little fry guy swim from the back of the tank and lite right in front of you.

On a side note....found (4) CRS shrimp berried. Kewlness!
 
Still fascinated by your journal and success James! Noticed you found planetcatfish and it'll be really cool to have a bunch of your incredible photos on record there!:y220e:
 
Update 08-Feb-2010

Water change Monday. Big test for the little fry guys. 20% changes across the board. Duckweed erradication still on going. Only find a few floating pieces here and there and they get removed when found.

Think I'm gonna fold up shop on the test tank and just convert it back. I haven't seen any fry for two days now. I would have thought under those conditions they would have done well. I don't know...maybe I'll keep it around for one more batch of eggs.
 
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