Clayman
Aquarium Advice Freak
Here's what I came home to today.
It's my male peacock gudgeon fanning his eggs in a pvc pipe. Now for the back story. In December I got a male peacock gudgeon to put in my 10g planted shrimp tank, although I didn't know it was a male. In January I added a female, again wasn't sure if sex. A couple weeks later they got down to business and spawned 5 times back to back. Two times the female ate the eggs. The next hatch I tried to raise and lost most to fungus after pulling the eggs out of the parents tank. I am raising around 10 that were left after the fungus. After learning that lesson,(to let the male take care of the eggs till hatch time) the next two batches were a lot better, only list a few out of both. Now I'm raising all those fry from those three spawns.(around 60-70 fry) so after a couple months with no spawning from the pair in the 10g, yesterday they did it again as you can see from the picture above. I'm glad they are spawning again but it looks like I might have to set up the bbs hatchery again. It's been fun learning and taking care of the tiny fish. I think a few more months and the first batches will be ready to go to a new home. I'll keep this thread updated with my progress, problems, and questions. Until then. Here's the lady after she was pushed out of the pipe by the male yesterday.
And here's some of the around 60-70 fry I've been raising since February/March
It's my male peacock gudgeon fanning his eggs in a pvc pipe. Now for the back story. In December I got a male peacock gudgeon to put in my 10g planted shrimp tank, although I didn't know it was a male. In January I added a female, again wasn't sure if sex. A couple weeks later they got down to business and spawned 5 times back to back. Two times the female ate the eggs. The next hatch I tried to raise and lost most to fungus after pulling the eggs out of the parents tank. I am raising around 10 that were left after the fungus. After learning that lesson,(to let the male take care of the eggs till hatch time) the next two batches were a lot better, only list a few out of both. Now I'm raising all those fry from those three spawns.(around 60-70 fry) so after a couple months with no spawning from the pair in the 10g, yesterday they did it again as you can see from the picture above. I'm glad they are spawning again but it looks like I might have to set up the bbs hatchery again. It's been fun learning and taking care of the tiny fish. I think a few more months and the first batches will be ready to go to a new home. I'll keep this thread updated with my progress, problems, and questions. Until then. Here's the lady after she was pushed out of the pipe by the male yesterday.
And here's some of the around 60-70 fry I've been raising since February/March