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Hi all,

Today on day eight, three have hatched. Two, I can see No. 1 you can see in the photo. Probably at night or early shift to collect the kids. That will probably be the last photo of the scrim. Another cutout from an egg in the "top view" Until morning guys, I'm guarding fishes

Greetings Ralf

Hello,

This morning on the day Nine point eight o 'clock, all remaining eggs were moved to the breeding pool. During the night some 10 pieces were hatched, some discovered my wife was still on the morning _ pipetted. When inserted into the breeding pool, most are already hatched, so it was five to twelve. Now the little tadpoles just so chill on their big bellies around, keep themselves firmly with her ​​little sucker. Looks funny. Three of them are still closed, leaving them time until tomorrow. Until now three slip have failed because they were stuck on the day in the fetal membranes of the other hatched. Some I was able to free with the aid of two kebab sticks. But only after work. This work is usually the father.
Tomorrow, or the day after Mom or Dad goes into the tank ... the shit .
Here's a group of kids from the top. Horizontal shots can rapidly after the quality, glass-water-Plexiglas with 5 ° angle, which is not good, especially in the macro range.
  A turtle with a long tail to the disk. Greetings Ralf

Hello again,

I would like to not be deprived. Yesterday, day eight, just before lights out, 10% LED, resulted in this situation .... more not very sharp, but only Geil.
The labeling is not perfect, but the cutout is amazing. Father and son .... or daughter. The meaning of life! to be continue

Greetings Ralf

Hi all,

equal to the beginning of the last three eggs, I have removed today morning 2 empty shells. , the dead third, which is small not have got out of the sheath, only the tail was out. Have 56 small numbered and maybe even some live in the tank.

Times change for the mother of the nation Sturi.
Look at the pros, it's St. Aureum or St. Panamese? Length without flag TL 16cm, 6.29 ". St. aureum for me is the belly, the bottom too bright
When looking into the breeding box you immediately recognize, this is the right baby is much bigger (longer) and thinner than the left. The belly is also darker. 24 hours make a big difference. But still they live from the yolk sac. I think in 2 days begin to feed. Let's see. From the side they look very (almost) like their parents. On breeding box today I still einwenig optimized hardware. The 300l Eheim now supplies a 12'er (1/2 ") T piece the small pelvis and the leaving straight ahead I can fix a valve. Way I can control the throughput in small and possibly even flush properly.

Greetings Ralf

Krawallo wrote:Hi all,

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Times change for the mother of the nation Sturi.
Look at the pros, it's St. Aureum or St. Panamese? Length without flag TL 16cm, 6.29 ". St. aureum for me is the belly, the bottom too bright

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Greetings Ralf

Or Sturisoma festivum, what I rather think. Open a new thread in the ID-Section with some good pics to really start a identification.

Greetings Durlänger

I'd suggest it's , it doesn't have the fin extensions for and that species hasn't been imported for decades.

Jools

Hi

The small ones are probably on and chill out in front of him. Their length is between 13 and 16mm. Some of the yolk sac seems to go to tend, but I can detect no activity toward hungry and food. Think it starts tonight. Have a mix of different dry foods is mixed in, too mushy Scalded lettuce and spinach is. A dry as I use ELOS and Tetra Spirulina. We'll see tonight will feed for the night. 'm So filters on a 500 l rearing tank. and where today there was a 30 minute, constantly changing the water.


Greetings Ralf

Hi all,

Sorry that did not fix the day was late home from work. The small developing well, but I do not see them eat really. Admit that boasts a variety of food types and shapes ..... wait times.
Write (with my wife) a diary with all the details, which we then publish at the appropriate time. The kids see their parents more similar.

Greetings Ralf

Hi all,

is not happening much ..... with the food I'm still not sure. Have some old, algae-prone Echinodorus leaves hanging in the aquarium and these are well attended. I almost think the little filter in the beginning. Every time I give to the food mix dissolved into the BT, then all are active ..... hmmmm. Tomorrow I will hang a bottle (like a bottle of Artemia) with food mix over the aquarium and, dripping one drop per minute. Some have changed color and are clear in color and more like their parents. Greetings Ralf

PS. The slices are pretty dirty, the image quality suffers a little below

PS 2. And please excuse my ..... englsich not so good, but I want to share my findings with you to make our hobby.

They are growing like crazy, maybe its normal and I'm just not used to seeing it like this.

I have never seen a fry raising box like that one either, very clever.

Keep up the good work!

Melander

Thanks

Don't worry about the English or some of the not perfect photos. I, for one, love the frequent updates and day by day explanation and closeups of what's going on! Keep it coming.

Hi all,

the little ones grow more or less well, they are now between 15 and 20mm. The older ones are all already bright brown. During clean the large aquarium so with online water filter cleaning and changing of around 30 minutes, I find it in the filter cartridge of the Eheim 2048 (powerhouse behind the rear wall), one of the little that had slipped unnoticed. He is now with are siblings.
After we were done with all the aquarium so I can see this guy, on the large Echinodorus, left rear, wide awake. After the photo, he was gone. We have just found him again, as he sits on the tube that the breeding tank supplied with the 'captive' siblings, with water.

Greetings Ralf

PS. The slices are pretty dirty, the image quality suffers more and more.

Hi all,

Pictures today there is not new, but the little (big) it well. Unfortunately, no one was in a position that I would have him (it) with the camera can achieve.
Parents too often cavort together at the front window and clean. The female is again remarkably thick and the papilla is extended ..... My wife just gets a crash course in aquarium photography because it is tomorrow morning at home. We assume that they spawn in the morning. If all goes well, there are pictures of the spawning

Greetings Ralf

Ok, yet another photo.

There goes another thing, hopefully not happen overnight. The light is still half an hour on, looks like a night shift…...
Keep you up to date.

Greetings Ralf

The picture above this post is one of best I've ever seen of breeding; you get a real sense of how the mechanics of it work. Good luck with the night shift.

Cheers,

Jools

The first eggs here once the first image from last night.
'll Stick a little bit back and write a complete report and breeding here in the corresponding tread post as a whole.
Then want that any of you checked the script to fail. Would be cool if someone here I can send you the script!
Please help me.
Of course I'll continue to report on the "little ones".
This morning there were three dead, unfortunately, but they were in comparison to the other much smaller. My guess is the small filter always ..... Serious.
When I think about what the little Sturisoma do in nature? Hard suck on a sunrays, wood, stone and wait ..... ? Once I the food mix into the breeding tank to catch all the "ask where they are" eating

Greetings Ralf

Back to the already hatched.

Today, on day 15, I can report that since the First Day 9 Small died. All were significantly smaller than their siblings, and still very dark, similar to the image "of the first" all others look like their parents. The food offered is well accepted, I must suck more daily droppings as food remains. The largest are, well 22mm long and the body increases in volume. We have a week ago, where some Ramshorn snails into the breeding tank, the clear well at the uneaten food. Tomorrow will try the plastic basin to clean, then there are the photos of the little ones. The next breeding tank will be made ​​of glass and ordered here. http://www.aquarienbastelei.de

Greetings Ralf

Evenin,

yesterday on day 18 began the mass deaths. No idea why. All measurable values ​​and in the open water and the optimal range, have the fat Dupla measuring case, since nothing remains open.
Sunday, I was so confident, because the kids have super risen well over the last week. Are less than 20 over.
Well, the second brood hatches tomorrow ... it goes on.

Greetings Ralf

Hi all,

currently living on the fry wire tension over a maximum of five, in another aquarium in the kitchen, this is very much overgrown with algae.
Today I saw two, and they are well fed and the manure, which was to see is longer than the little fish. So they find enough to eat in this tank.

The new breed is published 4 days in Breeding tank and fed since yesterday, sweet with ELOS, spirulina and paprika. Acitvate the container is full with old lettuce, spinach, zucchini and algae.
I hope the second attempt works better.

Greetings Ralf

Second nest attempts with different manure vegetables
was also not all dead
New clutch of about 80 eggs stuck since Wednesday back to the frontglas (how did he old man that?). Do with the little ones more like the first approach and search for the cause. Somehow, the little ones are too stupid to eat when they have to switch from filtering on Vegetable food. This time more old Echinodorus leaves will give the breading tank. Of the converted into the kitchen- tank "first" two are left, but the grow and flourish and only eat the algae on the glass, leaves and roots, they are now 35mm long. The filaments are formed from already. When they sit in times pose, there's photos.

Greetings Ralf

This is a very cool tank and the fish you have are so interesting. Have you tried to add almond leaves? I have heard that the use of these with fry such as yours helps them move on to other foods because the leaves produce inforusia.

Good news from the kitchen.

I had five strong Sturisoma-fry, from the first clutch put into this tank. And yesterday I have discovered two more, they probably true in the filter. So 4 pieces have survived. The size of the "small" is between 32 and 42mm.
Maybe it was something with the water in the large tank something wrong, because of course the second brood had died completely after 5 days. NO2 was definitely zero.

Greetings Ralf

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your help, I will consider it the third clutch, which slips straight . In three days I will feed for the first time and put your information into action.

Greetings Ralf

Evenin,

The five surviving Sturisoma of the first brood live and thrive even now in the kitchen.
Here is a photo of the "big ones", which measures 48mm. Without Fillamente and is five and a half weeks old Ok, the basin is covered with algae, especially the glass, but I will do the devil and change anything, let the algae to remove the glass. Have the "small" never active, eat food given to see, so they grow through the nursery they suck tirelessly.

Greetings Ralf.

PS: I relieved on Friday, just because of the small, the aquarium around 60 Endlerguppys.

Evenin,

After a long time finally a photo of the aquarium, with Sturisoma-breeding tank and Sturi-father with eggs No.4. At the major Echinodorus is E. parviflorus! Too much light? Above left, the ball valve is used to regulate the breedingtank, and the orange, top left, to the right of the breedingtank is a carrot dish which like the little witches for catfish like to eat.
The E. tenellus I removed (almost) completely, which was worse than weeds and formed by its dense growth of a holding facility for a thread algae that did not grow at the plant, around special to them. In the middle of the HG I have some E. tenellus replanted.

Greetings Ralf

HP, the Sturisoma, clutches No. 3 is fine, continue to be

Ralf,

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for posting these incredibly detailed posts & photographs. I absolutely love the detailed progression of the eggs as they develop! Hopefully they continue to grow strong

Amanda

Hello everybody

I am back again. After a private reboot, I have now in my new house again two aquariums, one of which you know one. Now, after four weeks, I struggle a bit with the start-up difficulties, algae etc ... but it is slow, but it is good in the next few days I'll set some photos here. Although no breeding report, but an aquarium is growing. soon and greetings Ralf

Hi Ralf,

Welcome back, and good luck with your new tanks!

Cheers, Eric

Hello and good evening.
Here is the beginning of a photo from tonight.
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Unfortunately only with the iPad not so in the usual quality. As you can see, growing at the moment, the blue algae, but even that will eventually be over. I'm back, which is one and the tank follows me and my new life we read tomorrow and good night.
Greetings Ralf