They made it!!!!

Another food you guys might want to try that saves a lot of hassle with the BS is called Golden Pearls. Comes in various sizes from tiny to very small. Floats in the water column to mimic BBS. A lot of the breeders over in Europe are using the stuff now, and I have with guppy fry for a while now, seems to work very well. http://www.kensfish.com usually carries it.

My Rams decided to spawn last night, like clockwork every 8 days, lol.

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Thanks Emg & Nataku

I think I'll try that stuff too. I just realize that starting the hatchery is very simple but collecting the BBS is pretty messy and there's always the chance of getting shells and non-hatched eggs mixed up to the BBS that may be hazadous to the fries.
 
nah...they aren't really hazardess....just a pain as far as keeping the tank clean. If you take the bubbler out and let the water settle, the hatched eggs float to the surface and the unhatched and baby shrimp go towards the bottom. If you shine a light on one side of the container, the shrimp will be attracted over to that side. I collect the bbs with a piece of airline I use as a syphon and rinse and strain them out with a coffee filter.
 
just out of curiosity, why do they dig pits in the sand...mine dug a little "bunker" in one corner of the tank. I thought they would spawn but in a day or 2 they had filled it back in.

Are they just trying to find a spot in the tank to spawn?
 
That'd be my guess.

an update: Well, 1 of the two seams to be maturing faster than the other. While one is about 3/4" long, and still has stripes, the other's stripes are fading, is about 1" long, and wants all the food. I've got to be creative with my feeding so that both get food. :idea: :clap:
 
hey aquaghost, I was just wondering, but does the male have a slightly pink belly also? Hard to tell from the picture, its probably his fin
 
Yes he does, and that also confused me a lot. I was never quite sure it was a male until the eggs became wigglers, since I also have a pair of female angels that keep laying and tending to their eggs (and of course, those eggs never hatched).

My female ram does have a pinkier belly, and stomach and breeding tube get larger before and during the breeding period. However, their color intensities also change quite often ,so sometimes, the male has a darkier, more collorful belly than the female!
 
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