New spawning tank pics - NEW SPAWN

by **pippoodle** on Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:04 am

pics (taken with crappy camera though) of my new spawning tank (still a tad cloudy due to sand- used old sand rinsed well)- have transferred over from an old one without a lid or light - was just conditioning them in there - has a mature elite mini filter in (have a cycled 1 plus in another tank for after fishies have grown a little)
For Prince Cody and Melba (named by Daz - thanks hun adore

) spawn - STILL conditioning for a few more days - Melba has large tummy but not full enough with eggs yet

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Prince Cody ct betta
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Melba gold HM cambo girl with some dragon scaling (8 ray) - pre conditioning pics

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bubblenest made today as soon as put prince in
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by **liz2** on Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:46 am

oh they look lovely. good luck thumbup

by **pippoodle** on Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:20 pm

will do a diary if / when they do spawn

by **crystal** on Sun Aug 09, 2009 4:03 pm

Good luck with them pip x

by **pippoodle** on Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:00 pm

thanks hun - let Melba out for her 10 min wander in the tank tonight and Prince started frantically building his nest bigger and bigger lol
bless him - she's back in breeding trap again now with him tarting at her lol
his nest is amazing now

I let the female out for 10 mins a night for 3 nights before the actual release and with the last 2 spawns when i let them out the 4th time they just got straight to it - female swam with her nose down and went right under nest as soon as she was released - so then they got jiggy right away

by **Newfishy** on Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:13 am

so have you had gook luck using sand in the tank during spawning?

by **pippoodle** on Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:16 am

yes hun was fine with my other 2 spawns in the other tank - babies are still in there so set this one up for these 2
the babies love the sand and eat lots off of it they dig in the sand and hide under the IA leaves

by **lilacamy931** on Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:51 pm

Its looking great! Parents look great. nest looks great, babes are going to be super!

by **pippoodle** on Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:52 pm

hopefully - hoping to produce half suns in the future from this new strain Smile

so see how it goes - no babies yet long way to go lol

by **Azulfire** on Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:36 pm

thats the strain im workin on too, but i havent had any sucess with it yet.. both parents are young and not good spawners yet...good luck!

by **pippoodle** on Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:10 pm

started spawning 10/08 Smile

now to see if it's successful in the next few days
still spawning and female still in tank - though now isnt very eggy so spawning might be comming to an end soon

Male is 6 months - will find out age of female and add soon

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