GOT BN EGGS!!!!

im so proud. its my first batch and only after a couple days of putting an albino female in there. not sure shes the mother but i don care lol. now jus time to play the waiting game

Well done mate..

Hopefully it all goes to plan for you...

good luck I am hoping to have another batch next week only got

Nice work kfenk's bristlies
Keep an eye on your clutch of eggs and in about 5-7 days you "should" notice them staring to hatch.
J

NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! looked into the cave tonight and its empty who oh why cant i get any babys. thats twice now!

Never mind will lay again
if at first you do not succeed try and try again

well i actually discovered the eggs on monday. now after a couple days i have wrigglers! the eggs came from the albino female (i know this because seeing her skinnier than normal was the reason i checked in the first place). now because she bred with my calico male does anybody have any idea what color the babys will turn out to be?
Im so happy, i was sort of expecting something to happen because the albino was hanging around and trying to get into the calico males cave all the time but he wouldnt let her in. i go away for 3 days to spend xmas with the family and they decide to spawn. imagine my surprise when i see what i get from my bristlenoses for xmas

The fry will depend on which one ie albino / calico has the strongest gene and also which is their recessive gene
For instance 2 albinos can produce common browns
My son has a male brown and female albino and we only get browns from the fry

one of the fry has emerged. got a pic of it to share wif yous

theres about 10 in the cave still witing for the chance to escape

Hmmmm , that's going to be interesting to see how they colour up ,
looks very albino but you can sort of notice the patches of colour like the calico's .
Looking forward to seeing some pix in a couple of months
J

finally got the camera out to take a few pics. so thought id share em (dont mind the watermarks)
dont know how well they'll turn out as i had to resize and cut some. so ill hope for the best

albino mum


dad in cave (sorry bout the blur)


fry outside dads cave


closeup of fry

good luck with them

i dont know if its possible this soon but can anybody tell me from what they can see in the pictures if the fry are calico or just commons? i dont know because this is my first batch and iv never seen calico or common fry. eggs wer layed xmas so the fry would only b couple wks old

I'd hate to burst your bubble kfenk ,but from the pix it looks like the common brown colour has come through,
but hey you never know - they are still pretty young and might do something different in the future.
J

nah bubble not burst kurosaki. im just happy they finally bred for me. just wondering what they wer turning out to b

daddys on eggs again!!!!! heaps more this time, thinkin one of the other females got in on the act

heres a pic 4 yas

Congrats on your fish workin for you kfenk, now get ready for the inundation of little baby fishes-
I hope you have a spare tank
J

ty kurosaki. yea i have a small 20L tank but thinkin that mite not b enuf the way there goin

found the male had kicked all the eggs today only could find about 6 eggs so they in a diy dodgey egg tumbler. hope they survive....

A 20L tank won't even touch the kind of babies they will pump out when they get sorted.

that sucks to hear your male booted the eggs kfenk, those "D" caves do fit straight into a breeder net,
you could try that next time they spawn- as soon as notice eggs put the whole lot in the net with the male
so he never gets the chance to screw it up.
J

good news tho. my dodgy diy egg tumbler worked. looks like all the eggs hatched that wer in there.

Hmmm i now know the bad part of breeding these fine fish. my males just released his third batch. this time theres about 40+ of them If only theyd let the jnrs grow to selling size before they make more

lol my problem aswell i started moving my young ones into my grow out tank today....
i thought i only had around 40-60.....ive counted over 100 in my grow out tank and i still have around 80+ in my big tank not only all this is going my male is fanning 2 batches of eggs from my brown female and my albino female...

Then to throw a complete spanner in the works my L182's have been spawning for 2days...and if they are succesfull i should get around 200 eggs from them.......happy dayz......