A swarm of snakeheads!!

[CFC]

I have recently had my first success with breeding my Channa gachua's and today is the first time the parents have allowed the fry to come to the front of the tank.
The pictures aren't great because i dont have a macro lense on my camera but you can clearly make out the fry, there are about 200 by my estimations!

 

[CFC]

A closer shot, still blurry but the best i could get

 

[CFC]

and for those who have no idea what fish they are here a picture of the mother (taken before the fry were hatched)

 

[wuvmybetta]

Oh how absolutely awesome!!!

Congrats,CFC. They're amazing.

 

[ryan]

Great news, best of luck with raising them.

 

[kevin007]

holy cow!

how much do you think one will cost?

...and will you sell em?

 

[CFC]

I will be selling them once they are a big enough size, not sure on how much yet but they retail for about £15 so it will be much less than that.
Before any one on the American side of the water gets excited remember i live in England

 

[Earthgirl]

WOW, that is a lot of babies you got there!
Good luck in the raising them!

 

[Discomafia]

Yea wish you all the bestin raising these fry!

Any chance we could see a pic of their dad?

 

[LadyMinion]

Ohhh.. they are lovely. Makes me feel kinda sad looking at them as we lost Jethro (our gachua) a few days ago. He just suddenly dropped dead, we suspect it may have been dropsy.

Anyway, glad to see your gachuas are so happy. They're beautiful creatures.

 

[Nidge]

They look brilliant CFC, Its a pitty you haven't got a decent camera as the pictures you could have would be super!

 

[digital_run]

Very nice indeed....How many out of the 200 do you think will actually make it?

 

[CFC]

Very nice indeed....How many out of the 200 do you think will actually make it?

With a first spawn i more or less expect at least a 50% mortality rate in the first 2 weeks and maybe as little as 20% to reach it to full maturity, but i havent experienced the usual ammount of losses yet so maybe with snakeheads it will be different.

 

[cation]

Congrats, CFC. They're beautiful.

 

[cometcattle]

Well done, CFC!