Success at last

I have been trying to have success for a while raising some young from my pearl gold marble male and Rob's blue female. I had a couple of spawnings that looked fine at spawning time. Quite large batches that hatched out as normal but then just seemed to wriggle for days finally dying off a couple of weeks or so later.

This is something I've never experienced before so was a little confused. In desperation, I this time I raised the temperature from the normal 77deg F up to 80 deg. My thinking being that this would speed up the hatching process and maybe get them past the difficult early stage.

It seems to have worked because I now have a good batch of fry that are happily eating brine shrimp and growing fast.

Here are some videos.

Hope you like them.

Congratulations Trevor,
I wonder if raising the temperature was cause of coincidence, but certainly I tend to keep mine at about 80 rather than 77.

All doing well. These are the parents. I decided today was time to move them out to give them a rest from the fry picking at them, which they do once they start to grow.





Fry growing well too;

Oooooooo Jealous here!!! My parents ate the wrigglers again! Roll on next week!! lol

Looking good Trevor,
Patience Bridge Girl, all good thing come to those who wait.

Nice work. It is such a great feeling to see them raise them successfully.