Members Arturomex Posted July 1, 2020 Members Report Posted July 1, 2020 I'm enjoying reading about this. Please, keep posting. Arturo Quote
toxo Posted July 4, 2020 Author Report Posted July 4, 2020 Update. Can't say for certain whether the forty year old eggs were a success. When first hatched they are truly tiny and the fry were eating something, could have been softened eggs or baby brines. Anyway started a new batch yesterday using the freebie shop eggs. Started at 3pm yesterday and I've just checked them and they are starting to hatch (Innit exciting). Now I really have to get the fry out of the tank so I can clean it and get a filter in there. I'll start the second shrimp hatchery in a couple of hours to maintain an overlap. All this is making me want to set up a bigger tank and get some of my beloved Discus again. The breeding process of the Discus has to be experienced. Later. Quote
toxo Posted July 11, 2020 Author Report Posted July 11, 2020 Update: Tank is now sorted. Can't show pics yet because the two daylight tubes of the four in the lighting unit have blown and \i'm waiting for replacements. All blue at the moment. The initial success with the shop given brine shrimp has been followed by a week of frustration with some ebay bought brine shrimp eggs although some of it has been my fault. I finally got a hatch last night but of course they're not really needed now. The disparity in size of some of the fish is interesting. Whether different species or subsequent spawnings I don't know. They could just be runts I guess. I do know they go crazy for brine shrimp. It's a bit like a shark frenzy at feeding time and I saw one of the big ones chomp onto one of the tiny guys. Whether it let go because it realised it made a mistake or in response to my frantic tapping on the glass I don't know but it was too late for the little guy who spiralled off into the void :( Quote
Members Arturomex Posted July 11, 2020 Members Report Posted July 11, 2020 I'm looking forward to some pics. Regards, Arturo Quote
toxo Posted July 11, 2020 Author Report Posted July 11, 2020 Phone camera can't handle it. Have to break out the DSLR. It hasn't seen the light of day in months. Have to re-learn how to use it Quote
toxo Posted July 16, 2020 Author Report Posted July 16, 2020 Update: I couldn't get the Nikon DSLR to do what I wanted. (It's been awhile and it gets tricky shooting through glass) so I broke out the never let's me down little Lumix compact. The pics aren't great I'm afraid but I've tried to show the difference in shape and size between some of them whilst trying to keep within 140kb. Sadly, a lot of the small ones have gone to the fishtank in the sky because the bigger ones ate em. I have to say the big ones are my favourites. They're not like normal goldfish, they'll grow up to be a darkish golden brown and shaped like proper carp but without the barbules. I'll see if I can take a pic of one in the pond to show you. This one is clearly deformed and I can't understand why he hasn't been gobbled up. Quote
Members Arturomex Posted July 20, 2020 Members Report Posted July 20, 2020 Excellent! Did the original stock start as gold fish? I think I read once that they started out with more or less the same colour as you describe and were bred into all their golden splendor. I guess what I'm asking is if your stock are "reverting." Regards, Arturo Quote
toxo Posted July 20, 2020 Author Report Posted July 20, 2020 9 hours ago, Arturomex said: Excellent! Did the original stock start as gold fish? I think I read once that they started out with more or less the same colour as you describe and were bred into all their golden splendor. I guess what I'm asking is if your stock are "reverting." Regards, Arturo All goldfish are members of the carp family but what we know as goldfish don't have barbules the way proper carp do. I'm thinking there might have been some cross breeding somewhere down the line because these fish don't just have the colour of "proper" carp they have the body shape as well. they're not torpedo shaped like regular goldfish. They're much deeper in the body. They're also growing much quicker than the other fish in the tank. Here's a pic of one of the smaller ones in the pond. there are some twice this size and the pond isn't very big. Quote
toxo Posted August 1, 2020 Author Report Posted August 1, 2020 Update: A very short video clip. I couldn't get pics that do it justice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS8kHxjHwWY&feature=youtu.be Quote
Members Arturomex Posted August 2, 2020 Members Report Posted August 2, 2020 That's great! Beautiful! Any chance of a longer clip? This one is only a teaser. Quote
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