My Carpintis spawned !!!!!

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Try to find hikari first bites or micropellets. Hatching baby brine shrimp is a pain, so I avoid it myself. I basically use a mortar and pestle to grind up everything. Add water to the mix, suck it up in a turkey baster and then slowly squirt the food mix around the babies. They will not need to eat until the egg sacs are barely visible, but I like to feed before I think they will be ready, just so the early ones will have food.
 
Hatching baby brine is easy as 123. take a 2 litre pop bottle and cut the bottom off of it then make something to hold it. i used a piece of plywood and drilled a hole the exact same size a the pop bottles cap. Turn the bottle upside down and put in plywood hole. add 1 teaspoon of brine shrimp eggs and 1 teaspoon of aquarium salt,add 1 litre of water and put a airstone at the bottom. 24 hrs later there ready. pull airstone wait a min or 2 and let all the egg shells fall to the bottom of the cap then take a turkey baster and suck up the brine shrimp about 1 inch off the bottom. i ran 3 switching intervals so i always had hatched brine. once u set up a couple bottles then u just need to add water salt and brine eggs everyday or every other day
 
I think I will go the first bites or micropellet route. Do I need to crush those up?
 
hey ewurm if they survive do you want some????? :) I have some micro wafers by hikari will those work if I crushed them? I know the petsmart by me carries first bites I think I will get some tomorrow...
 
Pirwhana;1093190; said:
hey ewurm if they survive do you want some????? :) I have some micro wafers by hikari will those work if I crushed them? I know the petsmart by me carries first bites I think I will get some tomorrow...
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Yeah, I'd like a couple. That would be sweet!
 
I need ideas for good target fish for my pair. They are beating on the other carpintis and I feel bad for him. Would neon tetras be good or fast enough? Or will they get eaten? The carpinits are 2-3"....
 
hmmm alternatively there is a short term solution - looking at your set ups in your signature, you can possibly put in 1 carpintes in the 30 and 1 in the 20.
your carpintes seem small enough to not completely punk everything out at that size. this is just a temporary solution if all else fails. you can probably put the swordtails in the 10 with the paradise fish (unless you are breeding those as well) just to make sure they don't get demolished by the cichlids. i think the herotilapia should put up a bit more resistance, but heck you need to keep a watchful eye on things. good luck.
 
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