75 gallon Firemouth species only Tank

[Toiletcar]

Congrats on the spawn! That is great they aren’t causing much trouble ?

 

[FiremouthGem]

I do have a question of how frequently do firemouths lay? Once every month every 2 months?

 

[FiremouthGem]

Had a bout of hair algae situation so I started to slowly clean it up when my largest male and female took a nibble at me thought they were being little ****s but I looked closer to find a pit of wiggling fry yesterday. So pictures of yesterday and today.pardon the extra algae growth I didn't want to agitate the parents to much by going in and mucking around.

 

[Toiletcar]

Had a bout of hair algae situation so I started to slowly clean it up when my largest male and female took a nibble at me thought they were being little ****s but I looked closer to find a pit of wiggling fry yesterday. So pictures of yesterday and today.View attachment 1454826View attachment 1454827View attachment 1454828View attachment 1454829pardon the extra algae growth I didn't want to agitate the parents to much by going in and mucking around.

Nice! Yeah I wouldn’t mess w/ it. They will be free swimming soon.

 

[FiremouthGem]

Fast forward a bit and I now have 16-22 juvies more than half in another aquarium there are 5 left in with the adults because they are so flighty and I cannot catch them no matter what I do. Any tips on how to catch these guys so the adults can have some peace?

 

[Rocksor]

Depends whether or not they are big enough to fit into bottle traps baited with bloodworms

 

[FiremouthGem]

Couple shots pre-clean.





3rd shot is one of the juveniles. They might be able to just nearly fit all except for 2 who have been growing leaps and bounds. Probably going to have to use a Gatorade bottle.

 

[Rocksor]

Yeah I was thinking about a crystal geyser 1 gallon water bottle, something with a wide mouth.

 

[FiremouthGem]

Don't know who's more interested/entertained, the adult fire mouths, the juvis or me. The adults are trying to figure out how to get the blood worms by nudging the container, i’m sitting on the couch/at my computer on the other side of the room and the 5 juvis who are looking at this thing like they know something doesn't seem right but the food is almost enticing enough to get them to go in.

 

[FiremouthGem]

My tank boss male sharko hooked up with another of the females, more eggs that hatched yesterday, took a look at the terra cotta shelter half i put in for the young ones to hide in, female decided she liked it instead of the main pot caves. Anyhow photo for ya guys.