jollysue
Fish Connoisseur
I made time to collect eggs from my San Juans tonight. I saw her dashing madly around the 20 usg with two fellows trying to keep up, before I went to bed this morning. (I work graveyard.)
Some may remember that there was a problem in their tank, and I lost the fat mama (along with all but one skunk and two pandas) after she layed her first huge spawn. But of the three remaining San Juans, one is a smallish female-- smaller that the two males and lighter. Nevertheless I collected over 50 eggs just before I left for work. There were more but I just collected the ones on the heater and in the Java moss as I could lift them out and brush them off into the breeding net.
Of the massive first spawn (See pics here ), only 3 or 4 have grown to the place where I am near ready to move them to the grow out tank I just set up last weekend. The first spawn caught me off guard, and I did a poor job of collecting and hatching, so I am being extra careful with the fat mama lady's first and only spawn. RIP Fat San Juan Mama.
I now have Juvies and fry from regular bronze and long finned bronze; regular peppers, long finned regular peppers, and albino long finned peppers; sterbai and San Juans. These are spawning regularly and frequently.
My new Cories are 2 gossei (I hope a male and female) and a suessi, who are tank mates with five 20 month old Pandas who are huge compared to my little guys. I also have 2 simulatus and a caudimaculatus in another tank. I have my fingers crossed that the simulatus are male and female.
Regardless, I will increase the stock of each unless they increase it first.
That shipment was a disaster for the little guys. The USPS decided to play Tag: Catch the mail man, so they were in leaking bags an extra day and a half. All 6 of the Reticulatus breeders died in bag, as did 3 or four of the simulatus and then 3 gossei died within days of delivery. It was a horror.
But the survivors are stable and getting happy now in their digs, so I hope to see some spawning in their time.
I will post pics here soon.
Some may remember that there was a problem in their tank, and I lost the fat mama (along with all but one skunk and two pandas) after she layed her first huge spawn. But of the three remaining San Juans, one is a smallish female-- smaller that the two males and lighter. Nevertheless I collected over 50 eggs just before I left for work. There were more but I just collected the ones on the heater and in the Java moss as I could lift them out and brush them off into the breeding net.
Of the massive first spawn (See pics here ), only 3 or 4 have grown to the place where I am near ready to move them to the grow out tank I just set up last weekend. The first spawn caught me off guard, and I did a poor job of collecting and hatching, so I am being extra careful with the fat mama lady's first and only spawn. RIP Fat San Juan Mama.
I now have Juvies and fry from regular bronze and long finned bronze; regular peppers, long finned regular peppers, and albino long finned peppers; sterbai and San Juans. These are spawning regularly and frequently.
My new Cories are 2 gossei (I hope a male and female) and a suessi, who are tank mates with five 20 month old Pandas who are huge compared to my little guys. I also have 2 simulatus and a caudimaculatus in another tank. I have my fingers crossed that the simulatus are male and female.
Regardless, I will increase the stock of each unless they increase it first.
That shipment was a disaster for the little guys. The USPS decided to play Tag: Catch the mail man, so they were in leaking bags an extra day and a half. All 6 of the Reticulatus breeders died in bag, as did 3 or four of the simulatus and then 3 gossei died within days of delivery. It was a horror.
But the survivors are stable and getting happy now in their digs, so I hope to see some spawning in their time.
I will post pics here soon.
