Smallest Peacock Bass ever posted here.
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Hasi;946177; said:
Not really. I had PB fries get into the free swimming phase in a tank filtered by Aquaclear. I just put a prefilter with very fine pores over the intake to prevent them from getting sucked in.
A sponge filter for this tank will take too much space from the fries. I'm actually using the surface area of the fries as my filter. There's an air stone in the tank though to supply water movement and oxygenation for the fries and the beneficial bacteria.
Gotta move them to a filtered tank very soon though. A power outage may wipe them out due to asphyxation in such a small tank with very little surface area. As soon as I can get rid of my other fishes this week they'll be moved to a 29g as their first growout tank..
Derpeder;945608; said:
It's a lot of work but lots of fun too.
It's the first time I've had this many fries hatch from eggs. In past attempts most of the eggs get fungused. I think the combination of Formalin and Methylene Blue may have done it. I've used the two chemicals before but not in combination with each other. I've used them individually before and in combination with broad spectrum antibiotics used for treating fungal infections with results not as good as this. I've actually stopped trying hatching the eggs when I discovered it is more effective to wait until they become wigglers and just collect a small percentage of the wigglers before they learn to swim. However, i was sort of forced to do this when I saw the egg filled stick with no parent guarding them.
Actually I find it more fun to observe the parents hatch their eggs and watch them care for it and see them escort the fries around the area were they were born. They're creatures of habits. You can actually wait at a certain spot at a certain hour and see them pass by and see them grow bigger than the last time.
