OK....so I'm out in the laundry room checking the 55gallon right...
This tank by the way is intended to grow out our 45 syndonis petricolas and the 8 Red Jewel's we picked up to grow out and form breeding pairs. Two of the Jewels got really bright colors in the last week or so but I never figured them for a pair, or even thaught that at 3.5 inches any of them where old enough to spawn.
Seems like I was wrong...because the brightly colored pair where busy chasing all of the other fish in the tank away from a cloud of free swimming fry.
The picture is crappy but the batteries died in the camera after that one shot. I'll try to get a better one tommorow. Anyway thats the smaller of the pair...(mom I'm assuming) looking out over the babies on the rusted car ornament while the little fry...(you have to look REALLY closely at the gravil and the car to see them but trust me..there are a LOT of them.) go after the baby brine shrimp I tossed in.
Breeding Jewels. Syn. P's and True Green Terriors always WAS the plan but we had differant arrangements in mind. I'll be moving this pair to a 29 gallon of thier own soon... set up as much like this tank as possible.
This tank by the way is intended to grow out our 45 syndonis petricolas and the 8 Red Jewel's we picked up to grow out and form breeding pairs. Two of the Jewels got really bright colors in the last week or so but I never figured them for a pair, or even thaught that at 3.5 inches any of them where old enough to spawn.
Seems like I was wrong...because the brightly colored pair where busy chasing all of the other fish in the tank away from a cloud of free swimming fry.
The picture is crappy but the batteries died in the camera after that one shot. I'll try to get a better one tommorow. Anyway thats the smaller of the pair...(mom I'm assuming) looking out over the babies on the rusted car ornament while the little fry...(you have to look REALLY closely at the gravil and the car to see them but trust me..there are a LOT of them.) go after the baby brine shrimp I tossed in.
Breeding Jewels. Syn. P's and True Green Terriors always WAS the plan but we had differant arrangements in mind. I'll be moving this pair to a 29 gallon of thier own soon... set up as much like this tank as possible.
