angel spawn

[Mattzilla]

mother is Koi Marbel Veiltail
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and father is Koi Marbel
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here they are with their first try spawning together a little while back (no good that time)
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veeeeeery hard to get a good photo of these guys cause they are so small and there is so many of them

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cheers
matt

[ILLUSN]

LOL good to see the old 2 footer being used again! congrats on the spawn mate, those little long fin BN's gonna have the time of their lives with all uneaten food to eat.

[Mattzilla]

there's not much uneaten food though!!!! they are eating machines

[Barracuda]

Cool! How old are the fry now?

[Mattzilla]

hmmm probably about 3 weeks old i guess...

[Mattzilla]

ok so tonight we decieded to move the angel spawn to a bigger tank becuase the standerd 2fter was looking a little crowded.

It took five bucket loads of babies to transfer them.
each bucket i took a photo of from above and once all fish where transfered we did an official head count.....

the results are in....

hold on to your seats....

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887 fish!!!!!!!!!!!

that's right people, 887 from 1 spawn!

i can't help but gloat a little here....

here are the count photos for those who would like to confirm the count.... hahahahha (have fun, it will take you a while). each fish should have a red dot meaning it was counted

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/3641348536_44d66eb9a5_o.jpg

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Cheers
Matt

[Mattzilla]

a couple of close ups my better half captured last night

great photos considering how hard they are to photograph at this size

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3642070315_3a27b8b3ff_o.jpg

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cheers
matt

[ILLUSN]

very cute mate

[the_oracle]

Those babies are AWESOME, mate....
Congrats ..........

Sanie.

[Red Tail Shark]

not bad my pad'one im all most tempted to count my next spawn of black velvets !!! almost :lol: :lol:

[Mattzilla]

I think it would end in tears for you mate!

did i tell you i have another spawn from the female veiltail and another smokey veiltail??? hahahahah so easy.....

[Mattzilla]

just some updated pics

the fry are doing really well and most are around 1.5cm now. they are really colouring up too

they eat like pigs!!!! everything and anything that goes in the tank they eat in no time.

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cheers
matt

[Red Tail Shark]

do me a favor since your so good at counting check out my photos under my topic and tell me how many there are there thats only one batch

cheers Cal :cry: :cry: [/quote]

[ozarowana]

WOW looking good. I have a spawn of golds here but not that big :shock:

[Mattzilla]

now ready for sale (cheap as chips)

see the classifieds section for details

[mistakes r crucial]

Do you feed live BBS Matt?
MAC

[Mattzilla]

Yep

[stupiddiscus]

Beautiful Mat

Do you leave the parents with eggs or move them once finished laying?

[Mattzilla]

i move the eggs after about 24hours and artificially raise them

easier and i think you get a much higher survival rate

[mistakes r crucial]

yep you do

[Red Tail Shark]

hate to disagree but no you dont, make that strongly disagree

cheers Cal