I've already gone over my whole mixed bag of different colored convicts that came from one spawn, and how I'm gonna grow out the platinums and 'oranges' from that. I ended up finding one last platinum, so that evens it out to 14. Best case scenario it's 50/50 m:f. Worst case scenario they're all males and they eat eachother. In which case they'll end up just like their father.
Speaking of things growing out to determine sex, my trimac is a female. She has a dorsal spot now, at 3 inches long. "rex" is now... rexy? even if the female version of rex is Regina or something I think rexy is a better name for a fish.
In spite of me clearing half my tanks in preparation for college, those empty tanks have become growouts for fry obviously, and winter tanks for summer tub fish. Though I do think I'll leave my mosquitofish outside.
That leads to the next thing. I had a very fun day of collecting mosquitofish for a few hours, I think I grabbed about a hundred, give or take 20 because mosquitofish don't take too well to being out of water for more than a few seconds. Either way I'm dumping them in one of my tubs for mosquito reasons. And my uncle's setting up a pond for the same reason so having the hundred ready along with whatever they spew out in the next 8 months will be good for that. The 3 big females in here are almost 2 and a half to three inches long. Biggest mosquitofish I've ever seen
In other pond news, I am overrun with swordtails. I bought 4 females and 2 males, I now have anywhere from 50-200 fry swimming around in the tub. It is impossible for me to do a net sweep of the tub (in search of the parents to see if they haven't boiled in the recent heat wave, greenwater doesn't even spare visibility of the brightest fish) without accidentally netting at least a dozen fry. I'll leave them out for another month or two, once day temps dip below 80 when it isn't raining I'll pull them. Hopefully they look like swordtails by then because my LFS owner is waiting for me to sell him fish that are of visible size.
Same goes for my guppies in the tub I have at my Grandpa's, except there's only a pair or trio at most in there (I only started with 1 male and 3 females, so not too much loss) but the water still looks like it's boiling from all the fry pecking at the surface. Reminds me of a downsized version of segrest farms' opaline gourami pond, if anyone saw that video.
I have lost faith in waterbottle bbs hatcheries and am buying an actual pre made one as a last ditch attempt to powerfeed whatever fry I have left to a sellable size by Christmas.
My bettas have fry too. I am attempting to leave the fry with their father because he hasn't made an attempt to eat them afaik. It has been a week and they are being fed infusoria.
As for my reasoning as to breeding line bred fish? I think I touched on it in another thread. There is no market around here for A.nanolutea, HRPs, C.demasoni, N.cygnus A.multispinosa, L.tridens, H.pyrrhonotus, or A.toweri. I don't trust myself with shipping either, I had a bad accident last time I tried and let's just say I had to refund $50 worth of fish. So the solution I found was just breeding things that were cheap, easy, wanted and accessible in my area. Next best thing. Hopefully it pays off, because I didn't really spend anything significant on it. I didn't have much money to invest in the first place.
Oh oh and the highlight of my day today? This 1 inch green sunfish that I caught by scaring it into a net from its hiding place, under a metal beam.
It moves too much and is currently hiding, but if I were able to get a good picture you'd see how unbelievably colorful the tiny thing is.
Speaking of things growing out to determine sex, my trimac is a female. She has a dorsal spot now, at 3 inches long. "rex" is now... rexy? even if the female version of rex is Regina or something I think rexy is a better name for a fish.
In spite of me clearing half my tanks in preparation for college, those empty tanks have become growouts for fry obviously, and winter tanks for summer tub fish. Though I do think I'll leave my mosquitofish outside.
That leads to the next thing. I had a very fun day of collecting mosquitofish for a few hours, I think I grabbed about a hundred, give or take 20 because mosquitofish don't take too well to being out of water for more than a few seconds. Either way I'm dumping them in one of my tubs for mosquito reasons. And my uncle's setting up a pond for the same reason so having the hundred ready along with whatever they spew out in the next 8 months will be good for that. The 3 big females in here are almost 2 and a half to three inches long. Biggest mosquitofish I've ever seen
In other pond news, I am overrun with swordtails. I bought 4 females and 2 males, I now have anywhere from 50-200 fry swimming around in the tub. It is impossible for me to do a net sweep of the tub (in search of the parents to see if they haven't boiled in the recent heat wave, greenwater doesn't even spare visibility of the brightest fish) without accidentally netting at least a dozen fry. I'll leave them out for another month or two, once day temps dip below 80 when it isn't raining I'll pull them. Hopefully they look like swordtails by then because my LFS owner is waiting for me to sell him fish that are of visible size.
Same goes for my guppies in the tub I have at my Grandpa's, except there's only a pair or trio at most in there (I only started with 1 male and 3 females, so not too much loss) but the water still looks like it's boiling from all the fry pecking at the surface. Reminds me of a downsized version of segrest farms' opaline gourami pond, if anyone saw that video.
I have lost faith in waterbottle bbs hatcheries and am buying an actual pre made one as a last ditch attempt to powerfeed whatever fry I have left to a sellable size by Christmas.
My bettas have fry too. I am attempting to leave the fry with their father because he hasn't made an attempt to eat them afaik. It has been a week and they are being fed infusoria.
As for my reasoning as to breeding line bred fish? I think I touched on it in another thread. There is no market around here for A.nanolutea, HRPs, C.demasoni, N.cygnus A.multispinosa, L.tridens, H.pyrrhonotus, or A.toweri. I don't trust myself with shipping either, I had a bad accident last time I tried and let's just say I had to refund $50 worth of fish. So the solution I found was just breeding things that were cheap, easy, wanted and accessible in my area. Next best thing. Hopefully it pays off, because I didn't really spend anything significant on it. I didn't have much money to invest in the first place.
Oh oh and the highlight of my day today? This 1 inch green sunfish that I caught by scaring it into a net from its hiding place, under a metal beam.
It moves too much and is currently hiding, but if I were able to get a good picture you'd see how unbelievably colorful the tiny thing is.
