WOW Things have really been hopping around here the last several days. Last Friday we had our October meeting of C.A.F.E. One of our own, Kevin Bauman, gave a talk on aquarium photography. Kevin has the reputation of taking beautiful photos of his African cichlids and shared some of his secrets with the rest of us. Excellent presentation. You can see Kevin’s work over at his website, http://www.african-cichlid.com. Continue reading Devario assamensis – A Gift
Tag: Fry
Musing of a fish keeper
Just the other night we had our August club meeting, (C.A.F.E.). Rusty Wessel came up from Louisville Kentucky and gave a talk about “Fishes of the Maya”. Rusty usually brings fish to auction after the talk and this time was no exception.
As I watched all the super cool fish Rusty had brought along being auctioned off, I felt a little down that I wasn’t still keeping cichlids as this was a rare opportunity to acquire some very special fish. I soon found myself reminiscing about fish I have kept over the years and what a fantastic hobby fish keeping truly is…..
As a child, I kept a multitude of “critters” in bottles, jars and buckets. All treasures carried home from streams, ditches and local farm ponds here in rural Ohio. In 1965 I started my “official” fish keeping career as I imagine many 8 year old boys did, with a 25 cent turtle from the five & dime store. Continue reading Musing of a fish keeper
Spawning Otocinclus catfish
Back around the first of the year Petsmart was having a sale on Otocinclus for $1 each. Each spring for the past couple of years I’ve wanted to try spawning these fish so I picked up a couple bags for a later project.
They have been eating lots of Repashy “Soilent Green” and fattened up very nicely.
The spawning set-up is a standard 10 gallon tank with some anubias and crypts. It has a course black substrate and the water is very soft being almost pure rain water. I have a small heater set to keep the temperature at 78 °F.
The fish must be happy because today while doing water changes I found the first fry!
If I can get these fry to adult hood it will be interesting to see if tank raised Otos are a bit more hardy than the store bought variety.
Here are some photos of the fry just a couple of days later…..
Spawning Danio meghalayensis
A couple of months ago I had the opportunity to acquire a group of 8 Danio meghalayensis from my good friend Stephan Tanner of Swiss Tropicals. As these fish are quite rare here in the states you can imagine my delight!
After several failed attempts at spawning these fish using a breeder set-up, I decided to loaded them up with live foods and started to monitor them very closely. Several weeks ago during an afternoon thunderstorm they spawned. Continue reading Spawning Danio meghalayensis