11 days old :)

[njweiss]

my baby jack dempseys! i can finally get a picture of them at 11 days

 

[meegosh]

Holy fry! That's a tankful you got there. Any plans on selling them to a LFS or something?

 

[njweiss]

yea it ALOT! and it was thier first batch of eggs ever... I have no clue what im going to do with them...

this is thier "baby book" on fb lol https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150427331571488&l=f83c981cee

 

[Mouth-Brooder-Fanatic]

thats loads of dempseys!!! congrats! id suggest giving them to a number of LFSs for a ton of store credit lol. they are amazing!! x

 

[tmfish]

Where are you located. I would be interested in alot of them.

 

[njweiss]

Im in VA but ill actually be moving to the poconos next year lol i have family up there

 

[tmfish]

very cool. It will be good to have another hobbyist in the Pocono's
I'm in Stroudsburg

 

[njweiss]

i grew up in east burg lol ill be in bangor though

 

[redsea]

Wow, there are so many of them? Has raising them been fairly easy?

 

[njweiss]

its been really easy, mom takes really good care of them, i just have been giving them frozen baby brine shrimp and mama also breaks up food for them... ive lost alot them by them swimming into the gravel and they cant get out and some have gotten sucked into the filter but i still have a crap load! I counted 40 dead babies, and that was just against the glass who knows how many are through out the tank...

 

[njweiss]

I was trying to post a pic of them today but its not coming up :/

 

[tmfish]

i grew up in east burg lol ill be in bangor though

well it will be good to have you back in the neighborhood. We have a few good LFS that opened up in the last few years now. Good luck with the babies.

 

[njweiss]

my babies are dieing!!! i dont know whats going on but over 50% of them have died!!

 

[Mouth-Brooder-Fanatic]

what are parameters, temp, food and how are the survivors behaving? x

 

[njweiss]

OMG me and hubby has a miscommunication last night and he heater got unplugged we lost most of them but the strong survived i guess poor guys... i suck...

 

[amanda23]

poor little guys

 

[Mouth-Brooder-Fanatic]

you do not 'suck.' it was bad luck and at least u have some xx

 

[amanda23]

ya not realy your fualt

 

[ocminpin]

I can say from experience... (can you say Friday?!) ... These things happen... I'm sorry you've lost some of your babies... I know it's hard! Just remember we're here for you.

 

[LyndaB]

I'm very sorry for your loss.