I sure can pick um'

[Jexnell]

On Friday I went to The Wet Spot, since I now have a empty 29g. Not knowing for sure what I was going to get for it I looked around and found these two. They are around 1.5in for the bigger one 1.25in maybe for the smaller one.


In store both were bright red. This pic was 3 hours after I got them home. One of them turned brownish for a day then the next changed back to red.

As you can see I got six Black Skirt Tetras to go along with the Jewels.

So Monday swings around and the background shows up. I put it on, then later in the day I noticed something....

That's right a clutch of eggs. At first they were white, later on they turned cream color, so I am guessing I got a male and female, and should have wiggelers tomorrow.


I will update this post as things develope.

 

[kiwiraka]

Nice fish!
That tank is getting a lot of action

 

[Jexnell]

Nice fish!
That tank is getting a lot of action

Right! A week ago it had a clutch of Convicts fry that got eaten by a now fat catfish.
Maybe I should put my JDs in there, seems to be the hot spot right....

Now I am thinking the bigger one was female, it had a fat belly when I got it, now not so much.
And this one the male.

 

[Jexnell]

Well something went wrong, cause overnight they ate all the eggs. We will see if anything else will come of it.

 

[Jexnell]

So I think I counted my eggs before they hatched. This cute little heathen was trying to kill the smaller one.


It had chewed off part of the dorsal, anal, and tail fin.

So I net her up and put some hides in Toni's tank and toss her in. Cant put it in the JDs tank I am sure they would kill her, maybe in Toni's if enough hides, it may heal up and I can try again.
Well a few days later and it's doing great. It knows how to stay away from the danger end of Toni, and at times thinks it' a shark....


So here is a FTS of the 29,and a pic of the skirts.


Forgot to mention that the Blue Phantom pleco is in here now.

 

[Nick Park]

Jewels can be psychos. I had a pair that spawned, but after the eggs got eaten by a hungry synodontis the male jewel killed the female.

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

Nice fish, sorry to hear about the eggs.