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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Heh unfortunately in Europe you can't get aquariums for the equivalent of $1 a gallon. The cheapest I've found is €27 for 10 gallons without a lid. Which would be fine, but I'm also pressed for space to put aquariums on. I don't have a large house, just a 2 bed apartment and my partner wouldn't...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Yes, it's sad what people will do to animals for fashions or fads. I try to keep animals that haven't been heavily selectively bred. I prefer the wild type colouration over the domestic colouration for most species. When I kept guppies I deliberately sought out "mutts" so they were closest to...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Well, the balloon fish isn't due to not wanting to cull, it was greed: "hey that looks different, I wonder if people will pay more for that?" and then deliberately selecting the most ballooned fish to breed on. Much the same way we ended up with deformed dogs like pugs, dachshunds or bulldogs...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Thank you :) these fry are certainly more work than my krib fry were - for them I just added egg yolk for the first week and then quickly moved them onto ground flake food, but they were so much larger to start with. They also grazed the substrate or surfaces to eat so it was very easy to target...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    I've given them brine shrimp but it looked like the male got most of it, he's really a bit of a bully. I'm giving them green beans today. The larger fry actually look like miniature fish now. They have tiny anal fins and dorsal fins (hard to see in photos) and are starting to go yellowish. No...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    I've been giving her epsom salt baths every morning and starving her in case it was constipation (I feed the others while she's in the bath). No change unfortunately ☹️ I also gave her a boiled green bean (just the inner "pea" part) as I had no peas, and she ate it but she's still really round...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    I'll keep looking for a place that sells the cultures. Might be a long drive though so it's probably not something I can do anytime soon. The nitrites came down to 0.05 mg/l and the fry seem to be growing again. There's now 26 free swimming fry. I suspect there's more in the moss that will come...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    I'm using full strength seawater and a 750ml jar, maybe I should get a larger container? I dont have a hydrometer but I do have piped seawater so I'm just doing water changes with that, it should remain the same approxinate salinity (barring a bit of evaporation)? I'd love to find a daphnia...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    The nitrite was down to 0.15mg/l this morning so hopefully this is the tail end of the nitrite spike. I'll keep doing the frequent water changes. Oh, what is arduous about growing them? Aren't they basically the same thing as seamonkeys? I remember starting a batch of them and keeping a colony...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Update: there's now around 20 free swimming fry and probably more wriglers in the moss. I've stopped saving the eggs for now as I don't want to be overrun. The quarantine period for the new glowlights is nearly at an end so I'll be adding them to the display soon. The fry are growing slowly - I...
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    Nice job Mom and Dad - Angel Baby Vide0

    Nice! Congratulations 😄
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    There's now 8 free swimming fry in breeder box and 11 clingy fry in containers at the top of the QT. Also I found one free swimming fry at the top of the display tank so the 3 glowlights there have spawned too :O Maybe they spawned before and I just never noticed fry because they got eaten so...
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    We haven't gotten this far before

    Woo hoo! Congratulations :D
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    They spawned again, either last night or this morning. I collected about 20- 25 eggs, and one that had already hatched (maybe from an egg that was stuck in the moss from prior spawn). I'm going to be overrun if this keeps up lol I put the eggs into another plastic cup (actually the cut off...
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    The Anubias Broadleaf and Big Mama

    Very pretty fish! What happened to the first set of wrigglers? Did the parents eat them?
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Oh, that's clever, I like the stand with all the guppy boxes lined up neatly :) How much water did the sweater box hold? It looks quite small? I have an empty storage box I can use but I need to buy a new heater, I think my only other 50w heater's thermostat is broken and I wouldn't want to...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    I went and had a look outside and found live bloodworms in a plant pot (with soil and plant) that had filled with a couple of inches of water. I fed some to the adult choprae, they seemed to like them. There's mosquito larvae in the empty tank but not much plant matter at the bottom, its mostly...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    That's a relief! I suppose they're eating whatever tiny organisms came in on the moss. I'll try to cycle out some of the old moss and put some new moss from the display in there. Also I've just thought of this - I have an empty tank outside in my patio that filled up with rain water a few weeks...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Pictures of the fry from last night: And one I took of the first free swimmer 2 nights ago:
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    All 4 fry are free swimming as of yesterday morning. I can't see any of the ones that hatched from subsequent batches but the bottom of the breeder box is quite dirty now so they may have perished or they might still be down there. How long can free swimming fry survive without eating? I can't...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    It would be great if I can get them to adulthood and spawn the next generation! Sounds like a really fun and rewarding project. They've spawned at least 3 times since I've had them in the QT. I'm wondering when (if) it will ever stop? Its great that they feel healthy enough to spawn but I'm...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Half of the eggs I recovered yesterday hatched. They seem to be hatching early for some reason (they don't look fully developed). I read that zebra danios do this if chemicals from crushed embryos are in the water, so possibly the adult fish predating on eggs in the QT (which the breeder box is...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Oh wow I didn't realize they had such short lifespans! I sort of just expected them to live for 4 or 5 years like most tropical fish. I've just looked it up and they only live from 1-3 years. I'll try to get as many eggs as possible then since not all the fry are likely to survive anyway. I'm...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Today I managed to recover more eggs, I think they're spawning almost every day now. There were less eggs this time, but more of them were transparent (I recovered 10 and put them in the breeder box). I think they were laid late yesterday evening because I saw some intense spawning activity at...
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    Unexpected glowlight danio spawn!

    Good to know that the pet store I got them from must have had good tank parameters. Their tanks do always look clean and usually have no sick looking fish. The tank the glowlights were in was tiny though, smaller than my QT, bare bottomed, and crammed with fish. They were in the "nano aquarium"...
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