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Update! I have gotten a wonderful spawn last week and today we have our first free swimmers. I have been working on this since last alAugust and with the help of gurus out there in this forum, have finally gotten a successful group to free swimming. All others in the past died and I only got...

I just posted a reply to an old post, but the post was old so it wasn’t accepted. So I am starting a new feeding thread. Here is what I do with feeding my many tanks: To me, food is the key to healthy fish. Variety seems to work best. I enjoy raising different types of live food and...

Darn -I could not open the video. Would love to see them if you have a still. I’m excited because mom is a mostly white koi and Dad is black- don’t know his geneology. These are the first successful fish I’ve gotten as I am still learning the methods ( see prev posts). She is a machine and...

Will do. Thanks!

New to breeding angels. These are my first 3 successes. I note that the 2 koi have pink fins. Is this a juvenile characteristic or a fin coloration? I expect it will fade with time. These are 7 weeks old.

Will do. Good news is they are doing great and barbels are growing back nicely. They did well with isolation and a small serving of salt. I am pleased to see them swimming normally again.

Great news and a question The angels spawned again on Valentine’s Day. I put in the divider and indeed the eggs survived last night. The big catfish on the other side. Today we have a nice set of fertilized eggs with only a few white ones. Bravo male! Tonight they are busy preparing a leaf...

Thanks Colin. Good idea about the back- I always thought those store bought backgrounds look kinda imitation. Would rather have something that looks more natural. Or maybe just black? Will clean the sidewalls. Used to have a huge amount of guppy grass but it made a mess. Any other...

Thanks Colin. Good idea about the back- I always thought those store bought backgrounds look kinda imitation. Would rather have something that looks more natural. Or maybe just black? Will clean the sidewalls. Used to have a huge amount of guppy grass but it made a mess. Any other...

Thanks Andy. I have plenty of other tanks. Will move them over. Will put them in a bare bottom as I don’t have any sand substrate. No redness.

Yesterday, I noticed 3 of my Corys hovering in the center of the tank as if stressed- very unusual behavior. I took them out to quarantine and noticed some scutes missing or sloughed off. Also some barbels missing. I have photos. Did a little research on this and wonder if this is a fungus or...

Angels growing well So far so good!

Sadly, eggs last night were eaten. Yesterday evening they did a lovely job spawning for the first time on my breeding cone- not on a leaf. I watched the male follow her well, likely fertilizing most of the eggs. He seemed to do a good job. They defended the eggs all evening. As my divider...

Hi Colin, The eggs were in a jar on a leaf with a bubbler tube in the jar . Most fell off after day 3. I removed leaf. The next day there were the 5 little ones remaining on the leaf when I checked for late hatching. Those went in the breeding box. Most breeding tutorials I have seen showed...

Hello fellow fish people! Well it’s day 10 after the last little spawn and my experiment learning how to raise these little ones continues. Thanks for all the advice so far! To update: This is the best I have done so far ( since starting in August 2022), getting some of the fry to the free...

Free swimmers today- first time for me so this is a breakthrough. It’s day 7. In past it was day 13 before I got hoppers, then they died. This time was using hydrogen peroxide instead of Mb, jar method instead of tank, Strict 82 degrees. I think that sped them up. But still just a small...

I ordered a divider. Meantime my 6 day olds look more robust than the previous fry done with the methylene blue. These were given only the hydrogen peroxide in low Concentration. I like how they look this time. Fingers crossed, but hopes not up too high. Started green water today. Have...

A divider sounds like the ticket for now. She is plumping up and we are at day 7 after last spawn so I will try to find a divider today. Window screening? Egg crate? You mean like an egg crate mattress?

In the summer that would work. It freezes here.

Thanks! I will try those techniques. Not sure what to do with these parents as I would have to move them to let them self tear, and I worry she would kill him in a smaller space. He hides from her often…..

One Question Andy— I would probably have to move my adults to a 10 gallon to have them self breed, which seems a bit small for these 2. I know they love the freedom of the large tank but for them to take care of the next spawn, that would require moving them. Lots of dithers and catfish in...

Thanks for the ideas! I meant to type “dechlor”. Not decal. I am presently taking care of wigglers day 5 with H2O2 instead of methylene blue. I have Walter worms coming in the mail from Kentucky tomorrow - will try that as first food. I tried that first food stuff on one spawn, but no luck...

Fry- free swimmers don’t make it. See answers above in text.:thanks:

Hope it’s not that.:eek: