mahemaheman85 Member

Posts: 280
Age: 26 Location: Washington Favorite Fish: cichla!!
 | Subject: Re: wild peru monos spawned!! Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:16 pm | |
| so apparently i was wrong, i didnt think anything would come of this spawn considering my situation right now, and it looked like she was protecting dead eggs last time i looked, so i went on with business as usual, turned on the lights yesterday morning and that was the only time i even looked at the tank until now, i dont really look when i turn off the lights. also i skip a day of feeding once a week and yesterday was that day. today when i go in to feed them i see a few swarms of little tiny itty bitty free swimmers, so of course i then begin to freak out, luckily i had already covered 2 of the 3 intakes, uncovered one being on the opposite side of the tank, so anyway i managed to scoop up at least a 100, and there's at least another 50 in the tank in the plants and in the gravel, man am i kicking myself in the ass for not looking last night, i figure what i found today is just the leftovers from last nights apparent massacre, given my orino and suncats bellys are full, lol the female is an amazing parent though ill tell you that, this is only her second spawn and shes only 13 inches, and shes protecting the crap outa the ones that stay by her, i had to stop and just accept how many i had cause she wrecked my net oh and the babys pigged out on hikari first bites right of the bat, and i also set up a bbs hatchery that i just made real fast, so i guess ill see how my salt ratio was in the morning heres a few on the fly pics    |
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dirtydawg10 Global Moderator

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Age: 39 Location: Connecticut Favorite Fish: Severum
 | Subject: Re: wild peru monos spawned!! Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:42 am | |
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Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist

Posts: 4517
Age: 32 Location: New Mexico USA Favorite Fish: Jaguar Cichlid
 | Subject: Re: wild peru monos spawned!! Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:57 am | |
| Sweet....sounds like you are going to have your hands more full than before....Congrats on the spawn, and the parents look great. _________________ "There he goes - one of God's own prototypes - a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die".
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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mahemaheman85 Member

Posts: 280
Age: 26 Location: Washington Favorite Fish: cichla!!
 | Subject: Re: wild peru monos spawned!! Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:06 pm | |
| | Mostlycichlids wrote: | | Sweet....sounds like you are going to have your hands more full than before....Congrats on the spawn, and the parents look great. |
thanks, hand full indeed lol, and yes the parents in there breeding dress is definitely something to be seen in person, pics dont show the half of it |
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jsorensen Member

Posts: 331
Age: 17 Location: St. Louis Favorite Fish: Plakat Betta
 | Subject: Re: wild peru monos spawned!! Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:37 pm | |
| wow those are some nice fish and congrats on the babies, sorry bout the net though |
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