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I’ve been breeding Angel fish since January. I don’t really consider myself an expert… but I’m getting better at it. So much better in fact, that in June I decided to add a different species… Rainbow fish. Now I say a different species… but there are so many different kinds of Rainbows that I don’t know if that’s the correct way to say it. So June 8th was my big day… I had bought 3 mops of Rainbow eggs off a seller on Aquabid… Irian Jaya, Milleniums and one of the Running Creek varieties… On June 8th I had my first couple of fry hatch out into the Millenium tank. I was SOOOO excited. A couple days later I had several Milleniums and a few Irian jaya. I never did hatch out any of the Running Creek ones… Bad mop I guess. Anyways… the fry have been growing and growing and I have 14 Irian jaya and probably about 40 Milleniums. They’re starting to show their sexes… which excites me greatly. I also along the way gathered a pair of Parkinsoni - which have been breeding like crazy! And groups of fry that will soon be large enough to spawn themselves… Lacustris, Bosemani, Praecox… So the Bow craziness has been really good to me…
So now… I’ve been thinking it’s time to move on… time to try for another species… Well… what’s next? Both of my LFS said they would purchase all the spotted cories I could get them… So I thought WOW! Cories are next! So I buy a group of 12 Cory Pandas. Good to go right? Well… they came in kinda small… and I lost 2 due to shipping stress… lost another for unknown reasons… But I’ve had them for about 5 weeks now. They’re hiding little fish… They congregate and talk about me when I’m not looking in the back corner and side of the tank… Rude little fish they are… I’ve done water changes… I’ve drained the tank (20 Gallon Long) down to 4 inches and piled in the ice cubes… I’ve done what’s supposed to be done. To no avail… UG! So now I’m thinking that maybe they’re just not old enough yet… Although, if they’ll hold still long enough, you can sex them… So I’m just waiting on that tank…
So now fast forward to last week… I was sick of the Pandas not spawning… so I bought the bristlenose… and the calico bristlenose… and I’m waiting AGAIN!!! These guys are proven spawning groups… I acclimated them, got them in the tanks… And I’m waiting… Doing water changes and waiting… I’m keeping them at 78 degrees and then doing the water changes with 70 degree water… and I’m waiting… and I’ve fixed coconut shell breeding caves for them… and I’m waiting… I’ve fixed flower pots for them… and I’m waiting…
SO NOW I’M READY TO PULL MY HAIR OUT!!!!!
So last week there was a cool little auction on Aquabid, 6 breeding Green Cories and 6 breeding Albino Cories… and the bid was just $10.00… So I bid on it, just $10.00 cause I didn’t want to run the price up… Well… I had totally forgotten about it… and Tuesday I get an e-mail that I won an auction!!! I was like… Won? I haven’t even bid… Well… I did bid, and I did win… and now… I have 0 empty tanks… So I HAVE to get out the silicone and fix the one that I’ve been holding off on fixing… UGGG!!!
So I have to go… Got work to do… Need more tanks… MTS strikes again!
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Sounds like a lot of fun :-D
Send us a picture when you’ve got the package.
LOL, I must say you are a very entertaining writer. I enjoyed reading about your experiences. Good luck with MTS.
Angela: If you were an old coot like me, you would not have to pull your hair out; it would just fall out all by itself. How convenient.
Good luck with your breeding projects Angela.
Our cories seem to spawn around February, or when atmospheric conditions change.
They also eat their eggs.
I’ve read that cory breeders often get up in the middle of the nights so that they can get to any eggs that might be there before the parents eat them.
Our bristlenoses stopped spawning for months, and we’re not sure why.
I know that some pairs can stop spawning for a long time after a move or a change in their tanks - a friend took a pair of discus out of his tanks several months ago, and the remaining two pairs of discus haven’t spawned since.
Hopefully they will get back to spawning for you soon.
I believe this blog was originally posted bu Angela.
I have eggs in my regular bristlenose tank!!!
Just thought I’d give y’all an update… All the panda cories croaked… GRRR!!! But the Lacustris are now starting to spawn and if I can get pictures of this… I will… It’s SOOO cool!! They’re bright blue and then get a strip of neon yellow over their forehead when they’re flashing their spawning stripe!
I’m trying to get started on the fishroom… I’ll keep you posted!
my bad about the poster, I tried to make John an author of an article I quoted, and accidentally changed too many posts.
Angela, let me know if you want me to fix this.
It’s not a big deal… LOL!