BlackMumba

You know I can't resist Betta Fry... :thumbs: Very nice thanks for sharing !

I also, use decapsulated brine shrimp eggs.

although, baby betta fry don't like to eat anything if it isn't moving drives me batty.

Bleach is essentially Chorine, which is removed with Prime. Just rinse well, and Prime it up! I use bleach to clean out old tanks and equipment all the time.

Very nice... :drool:

It appears to me that at first it was an abrasion from a fight... but because its an open sore fungal infection set in and slowly eating away at the area.

I would do a treatment for fungal infections Saprolegnia fungus especially.

Any foods with a high protein is the best. I like to use BBS HBH Fry Foods Microworms as first foods.

I am thinking about getting grindle worms as well, I believe TNT has cultures :thumbs:

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Good luck :thumbs: Their fry is prob going to be the size of guppies lol OMG !!

I am a bit confused, do you have platys with your shrimp and a Betta?

Copper is not good for any invert, this also could be a problem there are test kits out there to see if your water holds any traces of copper.

Platy's could be eating your shrimp, betta's might as well... I have seen my betta girls swallow a baby pleco fry whole and the pleco fry was the size of a shrimp...

I was surprised to say the least !!

I doubt its stress but one of the two above factors I would suspect, also shrimp if they feel threatened are fanastic hiders. You seem to have a well planted tank so they might be hiding.

i purchased 6 new cherry shrimp last week to equal 8.

this week i have only seen two, and no carcasses or molts.

but no shrimp either.

also, my platy who just gave birth is under a lot of stress by any movement around the tank.

the fry are still in the mesh box inside the tank, about 3 weeks now,

however, i'm not sure if my betta is attacking my shrimp, or if copper in my pipes did it? (although, i only see a bit of copper under my sink, not a whole lot more.)

i also put in one flourescent last week and havent replaced the remaining incandescent out.

plants seem to be doing healthy, i just did a small water change.

What could be causing the stress?

this is a planted tank, various crypts, vals, cambomba, banana plant, java fern ..

Well, Congrats!! Next time you will be more prepared Good luck on the next spawn attempt :thumbs:

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They certainly look alot like L264...

hahha would be wonderful if its a totally new sub species of the L264 or a new species altogether... !! :thumbs:

For the Females in a 10 gal tank would work great, you can put up to 5 min in a tank, to 8 max... :thumbs:

Oh, that's great news... :thumbs:

Thanks Jvision... I was a bit concerned... more pleco babies yeah!! LOL

Okay, so the other day I got a glimse of my other male LongFin Pleco... he had fur growing on his two front fins. I at a glance thought it was fungal.

So, I started treatment!! Well today I had to dig around the tank to find him, he is a fantastic hider !! :boxed: I wanted to make sure the meds were working.

I pulled the stump out where he was hiding to take a closer look, the fungus wasn't gone oh no I pulled him closer for a better look, its not Fungal!! OH what the heck is it... it looks like its part of him...

Looks like tenticles orange? This does not appear on my other male, its at the elbows of the front ventril fins... I hope I explained it right

Is this normal growth or something of a genetic flaw? Or am I going to do the toilet bowl funeral soon? Any idea's would be appreciated... I tried looking up images of other males I haven't seen anything like it..

We faired with 8 hours of no power, so far our tanks had no problems thus far... .x fingers

BUt the worse for us was our Internet tower went down, it actually was snapped in half... we were out of internet until just now... so sorry about the delays in pm's :boxed:

But we are back in business :thumbs:

wow thats alota shrimp! great job! what are you feeding them?

I am feeding them on NLS foods small fish community and NLS wafers...

Okay, so the Red Crystals are in one tank... the Black Crystals are in another but in the BCS tank you can see RCS the Black Crystals are actually the dominate gene of Red, and some of my BCS produce RCS

Basically the RCS can't produce BCS but the BCS can Produce RCS ... oh and that lonely ole boy is my bristle nose pleco who shares with my RCS, my BCS share with another Long fin albino Bristlenose pair I have that are almost at breeding age...

Oh Mumba's fish room is a busy one lol

Okay I have taken photo's its my photography skills not Patrick's... so, excuse the quality of them ! LOL

The second last picture is Momma, coming out to investigate wafers, and the last photo is their tank mates... the betta's leave the pleco's alone.. as you can see my tank is covered with baby pleco's.. There has to be over 50 maybe even more then 70, I have not tryed to count. Patrick and I are in the process of doing an experiment, my water is specially conditioned with R/O mix and minerals because our well water has a ph of 8.8 high with sodium.. this high PH water works great for our victorians but not so great for breeding betta's although betta's do well in this water when adult but fry are never produced.. I also breed shrimp which wouldn't do so great in these extremes.

So, Patrick and I took 4 baby pleco's at 3 days old to see if the extreme water difference would effect them in anyway. It appears it doesn't so far, we are waiting for a bit longer to move these guys over to a larger more roomy tank this tank is only 10 gals, and mom and dad pleco are very prolific so far the dad pleco is in his cave always... and she is almost ready to go again :boxed:

Get some Kanaplex, and primafix I believe Henry at Natures Corner has some...

Give him another option for a cave... PVC pipe might work... he might not like the pot.. the more options for him to hide the better...

Also I just did a test and my PH is at 7.6

I will have to check my water PH etc... do you have a cave ???

Also, mimic the rainy season helps alot, do alot of water changes 10 % every second day... feeding them some protein also helps.

I will send you a message before the next time i make a trip to the city and may stop by.

matt

I am in Millet... your in Wetaskiwin

Let me know if she eats that, I have another plan of action if this doesn't work

So far what i have experienced not eating = eventual Death and i want to do everything i can to be sure that WON"T happen this time round if there is anything i can do to prevent it.

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Thanks for the tip I'll get the Frozen shrimp out.

L

I sent you a pm Also, you should drop by and see them!!

so to small to travel lol

want to trade for some angles for plecos:)

we have a angle production line here.

my pair have spawned twice in the last week so there are

a few free swimming and about 100 wigglers.

and in another tank 30 4 month olds and

in the big tank 12 year olds ( no no not 12 year olds "12" that are a year old) lol

so many sizes to choose from

if you want to see what they look like, i took a batch of 60 5 month old ones to golds a couple weeks ago.

later

matt