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Looking good! I see you have MTS. Gahh, I despise those in my tanks.

Cheers, Eric

bekateen wrote: 08 Jun 2018, 03:40 Looking good! I see you have MTS. Gahh, I despise those in my tanks.

Cheers, Eric

Thanks Eric..... I hate the MTS snails too. I take them out by the thousands every week. I did find a good use for them. My chickens love them....

What is MTS - i have them too but what is the abreviation ? And Stuby what are water conditions that you keep the fry -what is aeration too ?

MTS stands for Malaysian trumpet snails. Water is as follows.... PH-7.2, GH-7, KH-5, TDS~125ppm and temp 25c. I have a air driven sponge filter and a air stone in the fry tank...… parent tank I have a air driven sponge filter and a small powerhead on a very large sponge filter.... the outlet of the power head is close to the surface to give the water more oxygen. I have never checked oxygen levels in the water... just always aerated well.

HTH
Chuck

MTS can also mean Multy Tank Syndrome, a condition most of us have.

With regard to those snails, my experience is that any water will suffice. They can even survive a few days in wet sand

Bas Pels wrote: 08 Jun 2018, 14:42 MTS can also mean Multy Tank Syndrome, a condition most of us have.

Yes, it is a very serous disease that a lot of us have...… and the only way to cope with it is get more tanks. It is to late for me...…

I may not be able to post pictures tomorrow..... I will still take them but I will be busy and depending on what time I get back I may just post them Sunday.

Still doing well.... hope you enjoy.

Now they suddenly look like fishes. They used to be larvae, not any more

Good luck with them

Bas Pels wrote: 10 Jun 2018, 08:34 Now they suddenly look like fishes. They used to be larvae, not any more

Good luck with them

Thank you. Glad you like them.

Good luck, they are not pretty fry until they get to about 2cm from then on they are smashing!

Jools

Thanks Jools, I can't wait till they get some size on them!

Pictures taken last night..... was a bit late to post them by the time I got home.

Eggs sack almost gone.....

Starting to get there

Jobro wrote: 12 Jun 2018, 08:13 Starting to get there

Looking better every day..... still see egg in them so it will be a few days before they are ready to eat by the looks of it.

Not a lot of change right now so this will be the last pictures till they start to get spots...…

Looks like they are just starting to get a little color to them.

Chuck

They look healthy!

Thank Jobro, they seem to be doing well and eating good. It is hard to judge exactly how much to feed them. I put some aged wood in their tank and some shrimp so they have something to eat and the shrimp will eat some leftovers.

Chuck

Here is one of the L75 taken today.... next to some L309. Just put the L309's in this tank and lowered the fry saver so they can get out.... and one of the L75's decided to check them out.

Chuck

It's so fun to watch them develop. Cool!

Cheers, Eric

bekateen wrote: 25 Jun 2018, 00:35 It's so fun to watch them develop. Cool!

Cheers, Eric

Thanks Eric, I am glad you enjoy them.

Here is a updated picture of a couple..... looking much more like their parents. They are at least 1" SL.

They look great!

Thanks Eric, I can't wait to see what they look like in another month.

The last few days the L75's have been courting... last night the male had the female in his cave and today there is eggs. Hopefully he is a better dad this time and takes care of the kids like he should!

Chuck

He started kicking some eggs out today..... just like last time. So instead of him having eggs to eat I pulled them. There is well over 100 eggs by the looks of it... wish me luck!

Take care,
Chuck

Here are the eggs today..... L75 on the left and L262 eggs on the right..... L004 wiggler in the background. Been a busy week with spawns.

Take care,
Chuck

Wow, what a clutch

nice! Hope you will get most of them through!

Jobro wrote: 30 Jul 2018, 21:25 Wow, what a clutch

nice! Hope you will get most of them through!

Thank you, I will try my best..... just wish dad would have taken care of them as he can take better care of them than I can!

Take care,
Chuck

Hi Chuck,

Yeah dads suck sometimes. I feel the same about my Ancistrus that can't keep their eggs from fungusing. But there's no shame in egg tumblers either.

Cheers, Eric