Keeping wild caught fish. Crossband chocolate gouramis

Lovely read and congrats, mate!

 

Thanks man

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So last night I sat infront of the cube. Did a count. Did a recount. Declared a dispute and did a recount of the recount. And did it over and over again untill I only got the same result.

So on day 9 there is defnitly 13 fry swimming around. Sofar it is going extremely good with these fry compared to the Kutubu fry. Defnitly helped to have micro worms for these guys from day 1.

Sadly it looks like 1 of the females is not holding eggs anymore. I'm not a 100% sure about the other female but she isn't eating, at the moment, so that must be a good sign.

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13 is still better than none.
You seem to have a knack at breeding your fish.
First it was the Rainbows, and not the Gourami.
You must be doing somenthing right. Keep it up, whatever it is.

 

What leaves are in the tank? Is it a specific leave to achieve a specific ph affect?

 

Thanks @Pezulu. 13 is defnitly not an unlucky nr for me. Missing only 1 at this stage.

The Rainbows was planned breeding. The Gouramis was pure luck.

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The leaves are oak leaves. The leaves are for 2 reasons in the tank. 1. To release tannins into the water, which does lower the ph. 2. As the leaves break down and decompose the have zooplankton growing on them. The Gouramis graze on this although it is more benaficial to the fry than the adults.

Ph is controled via the substrate, Leika, and the use of RO water. Keeps it stable at this point around 6.2

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I always thought zooplankton was only in salt water. Learned something new today.

 

It's also in freshwater, just in lower concentrations

 

Not much going on at the moment. Fry is still doing great. No females is keeping eggs anymore. Will just wait for the next round of spawning to happen.

As this tanks lighting timer is set up to come on for 1 hour in the mornings, just to give light in the fish room for me to feed the fish, this is what I walk into each morning. Worth getting out of bed early each morning.

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That really is an awesome little tank. I really miss my chocs now.

 

Thanks man

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I agree.. Its a beautiful tank

Love the look with the leaves and the plants look great

 

very nice... how about a pic with all lights on??

love the fish room!!

 

Dont you find your chocs chase each other around a lot? My 4 were constantly chasing each other. I had them in a heavily planted 4 ft tank but it made no difference.

 

Thanks Maria. I love the leaves. Never remove them and just keeps adding more.

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Thanks Ammar. So you mean I will have to clean up the room first?

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They have their peacefull moments but they do chace and flare a lot. Funny thing is that it is the females that does the chasing.

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UMMM judging from what I see there is a bit of OCD going on in that room, i doubt much cleaning is required!!

 

Dude. If all the lights are off I will defnitly trip and break a few tanks in the prosess. Maby I should do a before and after shot.

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