Ok...I have this really nice pair of german blues from a spawn I did early last year. I haven't been paying attention to thier spawning, just letting them go ahead and eat the fry when they had them.
On the spur of the moment....seeing a nice group of eggs sitting on one of the fake logs I have in the tank.....I decided to go ahead and try another spawn with them. I got $1.25 each for the last batch....and I had over 70 of them...!!
I have a nice clean 10 sitting empty so I filled it with clean change water about 1/3 full.....took a sponge filter from my 10gallon divided betta tank...and a nylon bag of gravel I had in there as well, which I always keep a few of those handy....and....I snatched the heater from the bettas too...(they'll be fine without it, my house is warm enough) I tossed in some water sprite...which I have an over abundance of around here.
I used a small plastic tank I have to move the fake log with the eggs over to the 10. Filled the little tank with water from the ram tank and slowly added water from the 10 into that so the eggs could adjust to the water difference. Hopefully they took the move well. If so they should hatch sometime today or tomorrow. I waited until they looked about ready to hatch before moving them.
I think I'll keep this going as a log.....if all turns out well with them.
On the spur of the moment....seeing a nice group of eggs sitting on one of the fake logs I have in the tank.....I decided to go ahead and try another spawn with them. I got $1.25 each for the last batch....and I had over 70 of them...!!
I have a nice clean 10 sitting empty so I filled it with clean change water about 1/3 full.....took a sponge filter from my 10gallon divided betta tank...and a nylon bag of gravel I had in there as well, which I always keep a few of those handy....and....I snatched the heater from the bettas too...(they'll be fine without it, my house is warm enough) I tossed in some water sprite...which I have an over abundance of around here.
I used a small plastic tank I have to move the fake log with the eggs over to the 10. Filled the little tank with water from the ram tank and slowly added water from the 10 into that so the eggs could adjust to the water difference. Hopefully they took the move well. If so they should hatch sometime today or tomorrow. I waited until they looked about ready to hatch before moving them.
I think I'll keep this going as a log.....if all turns out well with them.