Simpsonichthys fulminantis Guanambi BHS 95/12

[stormhawk]

Me too! Collected about 150 fry from my first batch. Spread the wetting into 3 nights and had 4 Paracetamol after chasing the fry round the hatching tray.

That makes us two very happy people. I didn't expect 105 eggs from a reverse trio (2M 1F) since one of the females decided to be a belly slider and wasn't capable of going into the spawning bowl herself.

[timebomb]

For the bag of fulminantis eggs you wanted, please remember to sign the contract ( by hook by crook / dead or alive and I don't care, you must keep them for a year too.

If that is the case, I better get myself a lawyer to draw up the contract
Thanks, Selena. I would very much like to have a bag of S. fulminantis eggs.

By the way, it's okay to kill fish so long as at the same time, you also breed lots of them. Every fry you raise serves as an atonement for every fish you kill

Loh K L

[CM Media]

For the bag of fulminantis eggs you wanted, please remember to sign the contract ( by hook by crook / dead or alive and I don't care, you must keep them for a year too.

Great job Selena!

[turaco]

That makes us two very happy people.

I'll be the third happy people . Wet the peat today. Got probably 100 fry.(How you guys actually count the fry one by one? ) From my observation, with such body size of parents producing such tiny eggs, the number of eggs collected will be quite a lot, as compare to say Simp. magnificus- nomal size eggs.. Tiny fry means headache! Tend to lose them more easily if they can't take bbs as first food.
Selena, how's your fry so far? Do try the proven method- spilt the fry to as many containers as possible, it will increase their survival rate.

[stormhawk]

Gan,

I was boggled by their small size as well at first. They do quite well on infusoria and other microfoods for the first 2 to 3 days. After that the largest will start feeding on young live daphnia.

I find daphnia to be the best food for that stage of their growth as there is an assorted size of individuals amongst the daphnia. So the largest fry are able to pick off the smaller daphnia before moving on to the larger ones.

There will be a size disparity after some time and this is when segregation is necessary to prevent the smaller ones from being stunted.

[CM Media]

Hi Guys,

Do not be too worried about the little fry. They can take newly hatched brine shrimps on the second day after hatching.

The problem with this fish is do not overcrowd the adults within a small take. They tend to have cramp fin problem when place in a over crowded tank.

[A.Rashid]

Yippee!!.. I'm one happy man.

Just collected and hand-counted at least 105 fertile eggs from my reverse trio after a week's spawning.

Ok we'll see now, how good JY can keep them alive!

[selena]

Selena, how's your fry so far? Do try the proven method- spilt the fry to as many containers as possible, it will increase their survival rate.

I collected another 10 more from hatching tray and the container where you put all the floating debris/peat (apparently some eggs were floating when I was removing the floating surface peat for better clarity- this must take note)

I split the whole lot into 3 containers. Two rectangle, one shallow and one deep for the stronger fry and a small round with lots of Java moss for the dreamers ( those that do not realise there are food around).

Survival Rate - Don't know and won't know. Ramhorns clean up everything except their shits and fry are not very co-operative. None are stopping for me to do a head count.

Size - Tiny and skinny when hatched.

Food - No green water plus I killed all Ronnie's microworm and Walter's worm. So I started from day 2 feeding them with newly hatched BBS that are 18 hours old.

Water Management - I always ensure the growing up trays are clean before feeding. I am sure you do not eat where you shit, fry also have the same feeling. How to have a good meal with decomposing food on your left and shits all around you?


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Selena

[keehoe]

Mmmm i think very soon Selena is going to invent folk and spoon for the fry. Anyway, joke aside. Anyone have every try educating fishes to eat from a feeding bowl before? I know dog, cat, mouse would learn where they tends to get their food and hence always go there when they are hungry.

Fish learn the pattern by swimming towards you whenever you near by. Would they learn the same pattern that they should always feed from the feeding bowl?

How about toilet training? - Selena, thats a challenge for you.
You will have to punish those who shit in their feeding bowl.

[stormhawk]

Kee Hoe, its possible for them to feed from a feeding bowl but like you've said, the fish must always go to one spot for feeding.

My worm feeder is like a fish magnet, all of my fishes in my 3ft tank, especially the smaller Boraras and Corydoras pygmaeus will go straight to the worm feeder.

[selena]

Keehoe darling

Fish learn the pattern by swimming towards you whenever you near by. Would they learn the same pattern that they should always feed from the feeding bowl?

I assure you they know when it is dinner time. If you have discus you know it. I usually feed my fishes the minute I reached home from work. They know that after I clean their waste, top up the water, it's dinner's time. Feeding bowl? No, I put the tubiflex in the floating cone for most of the adult fishes. Have you seen fishes taking mouthful of shit/peat with tubiflex and then quickly spit it out.

I know, most people cannot take it when I said that you do not eat where you shit. But given a choice, wouldn't you want to give a better living environment for your fishes?

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Selena