outdoor stock tanks...successes and failures
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Why not? You could use a break from your typical Thunderdome-style tanks.Maybe a giant goldfish?
It's okay not to walk around clenched up all the time, wondering who's killing whom back in your fishtank...in fact, it's really nice.
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Speaking of a-hole fish...
After killing his rival male, the dominant male C.dimerus and his lady have been heaping abuse on the third-wheel female, and I will be removing her as soon as I can catch her without too much drama. The pair has produced about 80-ish fry, who have been free-swimming for a couple days. Their number is already down to about 20-25; this pair is just about the lousiest set of parents I have ever seen, fish or human, and has eaten all its progeny for the past two summers. They seem to be off to a gang-buster start this year as well.
The G.rhabdotus have at least three families of fry being shepherded about by their guardians...likely lots more, but three is the largest number I've seen at one time. Today I watched one parent with 40 or so fry approach another with almost twice as many. As the adults passed by...without incident!...the two clouds of fry merged, then separated and each parent continued on its way with what seemed to be the same number of offspring as before. I had to wonder if they were the same fry or if they just swapped out at random.
Also have lots of new Jordanella floridae, Medakas (fry so small they are almost invisible), and of course tons of Green Swordtails.
After killing his rival male, the dominant male C.dimerus and his lady have been heaping abuse on the third-wheel female, and I will be removing her as soon as I can catch her without too much drama. The pair has produced about 80-ish fry, who have been free-swimming for a couple days. Their number is already down to about 20-25; this pair is just about the lousiest set of parents I have ever seen, fish or human, and has eaten all its progeny for the past two summers. They seem to be off to a gang-buster start this year as well.
The G.rhabdotus have at least three families of fry being shepherded about by their guardians...likely lots more, but three is the largest number I've seen at one time. Today I watched one parent with 40 or so fry approach another with almost twice as many. As the adults passed by...without incident!...the two clouds of fry merged, then separated and each parent continued on its way with what seemed to be the same number of offspring as before. I had to wonder if they were the same fry or if they just swapped out at random.
Also have lots of new Jordanella floridae, Medakas (fry so small they are almost invisible), and of course tons of Green Swordtails.
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