Comments on: Lefty and Mate have spawned!!! http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/12/lefty-and-mate-have-spawned/ Are we experts yet? Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: bugman http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/12/lefty-and-mate-have-spawned/comment-page-1/#comment-3866 bugman Fri, 22 May 2009 13:06:57 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=15887#comment-3866 Our own mother accused us of having the same disorder as Octomom when we purchased the third aquarium. Dean at Tropical Imports said we don't need a couch anyway. Our trip to Ohio in two weeks has us a bit nervous that the task of feeding newborns might just overwhelm the kind neighbors who have agreed to feed the fish. Thanks for your interest, but we firmly maintain there will not be a spin-off website. Our own mother accused us of having the same disorder as Octomom when we purchased the third aquarium. Dean at Tropical Imports said we don’t need a couch anyway. Our trip to Ohio in two weeks has us a bit nervous that the task of feeding newborns might just overwhelm the kind neighbors who have agreed to feed the fish. Thanks for your interest, but we firmly maintain there will not be a spin-off website.

]]> By: Bugophile http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/12/lefty-and-mate-have-spawned/comment-page-1/#comment-3842 Bugophile Thu, 21 May 2009 14:40:17 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=15887#comment-3842 Hello Daniel and Lisa, I'm thoroughly enjoying your Angelfish stories. What an adventure your simple quest for an attractive piece of "Living"room furniture has turned out to be! Looking forward to the next installment. Hello Daniel and Lisa,
I’m thoroughly enjoying your Angelfish stories. What an adventure your simple quest for an attractive piece of “Living”room furniture has turned out to be! Looking forward to the next installment.

]]> By: bugman http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/12/lefty-and-mate-have-spawned/comment-page-1/#comment-3697 bugman Wed, 13 May 2009 13:37:24 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=15887#comment-3697 Thanks for your interest in our aquaria despite them not being bug related. Right now we have about 100 or more fry from the first two spawnings of the other pair of Angelfish. The 13 largest fry are getting large. The body size is just shy of a dime. They are definitely from the first batch. Since the original pair of Angelfish is in a community aquarium, the fry that were not removed with a turkey baster became fish food for the other tank mates. It was our intention both times to leave some of the fry with the parents in the hopes that some might survive. Lefty and mate have their own aquarium and we haven't decided what to do about this most recent spawning. Since we will be gone for a week in early June, caring for fry might be a bit much to ask of Sandy and Bettie, the neighbors who have agreed to feed the fish while we are gone. The 30 largest fry are currently in a 50 gallon aquarium with 9 Rummy Nosed Tetras and a Cory Cat. They have begun to eat frozen adult brine shrimp, but they continue to love feasting on live baby brine shrimp. We have three small critter keepers that we raise the baby brine shrimp in, and when the population of brine shrimp declines to the point that it is difficult to catch less than five with an eyedropper, we dump the water and start anew. This way we cycle through the three brine shrimp hatcheries and always have a ready supply of nauplii for our hungry fry. The Rummy Nosed Tetras also love eating the brine shrimp nauplii, so we try to stuff them with adult frozen brine shrimp first and that is how we are acclimating the Angelfish fry to eat larger food. Once the Tetras are sated, we introduce the baby brine shrimp to the aquarium. The Angelfish also become active at dawn's first light, and we feed them then before the Tetras start swimming. It is our plan to bring home a better camera so we can post photos of our growing fry. The camera we have has become quite difficult to focus, and since we teach photography, posting blurry photos is a bit of an embarrassment. You can always read our aquarium chronicle from the beginning by clicking the aquarium link on the left side of the home page. P.S. We don't keep the vertical slate in the aquarium because we don't plan to remove the eggs. We prefer to remove the wrigglers, or newly hatched fry. Our Angelfish have been quite content to spawn on leaves or the glass sides of the aquarium. Thanks for your interest in our aquaria despite them not being bug related. Right now we have about 100 or more fry from the first two spawnings of the other pair of Angelfish. The 13 largest fry are getting large. The body size is just shy of a dime. They are definitely from the first batch. Since the original pair of Angelfish is in a community aquarium, the fry that were not removed with a turkey baster became fish food for the other tank mates. It was our intention both times to leave some of the fry with the parents in the hopes that some might survive. Lefty and mate have their own aquarium and we haven’t decided what to do about this most recent spawning. Since we will be gone for a week in early June, caring for fry might be a bit much to ask of Sandy and Bettie, the neighbors who have agreed to feed the fish while we are gone.
The 30 largest fry are currently in a 50 gallon aquarium with 9 Rummy Nosed Tetras and a Cory Cat. They have begun to eat frozen adult brine shrimp, but they continue to love feasting on live baby brine shrimp. We have three small critter keepers that we raise the baby brine shrimp in, and when the population of brine shrimp declines to the point that it is difficult to catch less than five with an eyedropper, we dump the water and start anew. This way we cycle through the three brine shrimp hatcheries and always have a ready supply of nauplii for our hungry fry. The Rummy Nosed Tetras also love eating the brine shrimp nauplii, so we try to stuff them with adult frozen brine shrimp first and that is how we are acclimating the Angelfish fry to eat larger food. Once the Tetras are sated, we introduce the baby brine shrimp to the aquarium. The Angelfish also become active at dawn’s first light, and we feed them then before the Tetras start swimming.
It is our plan to bring home a better camera so we can post photos of our growing fry. The camera we have has become quite difficult to focus, and since we teach photography, posting blurry photos is a bit of an embarrassment. You can always read our aquarium chronicle from the beginning by clicking the aquarium link on the left side of the home page.
P.S. We don’t keep the vertical slate in the aquarium because we don’t plan to remove the eggs. We prefer to remove the wrigglers, or newly hatched fry. Our Angelfish have been quite content to spawn on leaves or the glass sides of the aquarium.

]]> By: smichal http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/05/12/lefty-and-mate-have-spawned/comment-page-1/#comment-3696 smichal Wed, 13 May 2009 12:55:28 +0000 http://www.whatsthatbug.com/?p=15887#comment-3696 I am loving your angelfish stories. What happened to the previous batch of eggs? Let's see the babies! PS I have read that angelfish love to put their eggs on a vertical slab of slate. You can add a piece to your tank. I am loving your angelfish stories. What happened to the previous batch of eggs? Let’s see the babies!

PS I have read that angelfish love to put their eggs on a vertical slab of slate. You can add a piece to your tank.

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