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sfin52 said:
Orkin has an alarm the trucks. It goes off ar 70mph. If you go over 70 for 30 sec the GPS registers it and sends off an email. 3 times and I can be fired. So I drive at a blister pace of 69.9 mph.
That has translated to the pov.
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F i s h y said:
Someone was busy last night!

I'm expecting again :) today is day 1.

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What kind of setup do you use to rear the fry in? I think one of my cardinals is holding eggs in its mouth. I noticed it had a full jaw a few days ago, but hadn’t thought anything of it till i realized it had stopped eating and I looked it up. I remembered you said you had a pair clutching... I’m used to mouth brooders, but this is not an area I am experienced in. I’m not ready to be a grandmaaaaa.

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Smirkish said:
What kind of setup do you use to rear the fry in? I think one of my cardinals is holding eggs in its mouth. I noticed it had a full jaw a few days ago, but hadn’t thought anything of it till i realized it had stopped eating and I looked it up. I remembered you said you had a pair clutching... I’m used to mouth brooders, but this is not an area I am experienced in. I’m not ready to be a grandmaaaaa.

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My current pair, well my current male hasn't held the eggs past 6 days. I think my purple tang stresses him to much.. If he holds them to day about 24 to 28 the babies should be well formed miniature replicas of the parents.
In the past I have offered a combo of frozen baby brine shrimp, frozen rotifers, and frozen cyclopeze. I don't like messing with live foods. You lose quite a few but I believe the ones you have left are much more hardy.
My current plan is to place the male if I can catch him in a breeder box in the DT when he is closer to spitting. That way when I am continuously feeding lots of food to the babies the DT can handle the extra volume and I don't have to worry about water quality.
I am also in the process of also setting up a 20L macro tank. I plan on this tank being heavily stocked with small pods, shrimp (the little clear ones that are scurrying around my tank) and other live natural foods. I will also feed them heavily with the frozen foods I mentioned before.
Hopefully it's a start towards success.
 
F i s h y said:
My current pair, well my current male hasn't held the eggs past 6 days. I think my purple tang stresses him to much.. If he holds them to day about 24 to 28 the babies should be well formed miniature replicas of the parents.
In the past I have offered a combo of frozen baby brine shrimp, frozen rotifers, and frozen cyclopeze. I don't like messing with live foods. You lose quite a few but I believe the ones you have left are much more hardy.
My current plan is to place the male if I can catch him in a breeder box in the DT when he is closer to spitting. That way when I am continuously feeding lots of food to the babies the DT can handle the extra volume and I don't have to worry about water quality.
I am also in the process of also setting up a 20L macro tank. I plan on this tank being heavily stocked with small pods, shrimp (the little clear ones that are scurrying around my tank) and other live natural foods. I will also feed them heavily with the frozen foods I mentioned before.
Hopefully it's a start towards success.
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Thank you so much for writing all of that. I have read it three times now! Lol. I am screenshotting it, if you don’t mind? ;Snaphappy Easier to find for notes later.

I’m contemplating setting up a small tank, too, but I’m still trying to figure out what all I need to put into it. I was thinking a breeder box would be the best way to secure the male as well, but I wasn’t sure when I would need to capture him (dreading...night time sneak attack?). Glad frozen is an option as live isn’t viable for me, at the moment.

I’m not positive when they bred, so I’m going to try and watch him closely. I would hate for him to starve for a month just to lose the clutch. Please let me know how yours do, and I would love to see the macro tank when you set it up.
 
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Smirkish said:
Thank you so much for writing all of that. I have read it three times now! Lol. I am screenshotting it, if you don’t mind? ;Snaphappy Easier to find for notes later.

I’m contemplating setting up a small tank, too, but I’m still trying to figure out what all I need to put into it. I was thinking a breeder box would be the best way to secure the male as well, but I wasn’t sure when I would need to capture him (dreading...night time sneak attack?). Glad frozen is an option as live isn’t viable for me, at the moment.

I’m not positive when they bred, so I’m going to try and watch him closely. I would hate for him to starve for a month just to lose the clutch. Please let me know how yours do, and I would love to see the macro tank when you set it up.
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Hoping to work on macro tank tomorrow. Confining the babies to a small space and being able to make it progressively bigger is a great idea. I plan on making a sliding screen out of some egg crate and mesh for the 20L. I'll share my designs with you tomorrow.
 
Smirkish said:
Thank you so much for writing all of that. I have read it three times now! Lol. I am screenshotting it, if you don’t mind? ;Snaphappy Easier to find for notes later.

I’m contemplating setting up a small tank, too, but I’m still trying to figure out what all I need to put into it. I was thinking a breeder box would be the best way to secure the male as well, but I wasn’t sure when I would need to capture him (dreading...night time sneak attack?). Glad frozen is an option as live isn’t viable for me, at the moment.

I’m not positive when they bred, so I’m going to try and watch him closely. I would hate for him to starve for a month just to lose the clutch. Please let me know how yours do, and I would love to see the macro tank when you set it up.
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Keep an eye on your other fish around the expecting mr.

My yellow and purple tangs both uses to follow my male Cardinal around relentlessly at some point when they realized he had a mouth full of treats and wasn't sharing.

Not sure if that was the same issues @F i s h y had or not. I lost my 5 year old female after the fw dip and moving into the hospital tank. Not sure if I'm going to leave the one as a Singleton or try adding another. I like Cardinals in pairs.
 
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Keep an eye on your other fish around the expecting mr.

My yellow and purple tangs both uses to follow my male Cardinal around relentlessly at some point when they realized he had a mouth full of treats and wasn't sharing.

Not sure if that was the same issues @F i s h y had or not. I lost my 5 year old female after the fw dip and moving into the hospital tank. Not sure if I'm going to leave the one as a Singleton or try adding another. I like Cardinals in pairs.
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Yup... purple tang got the eggs last night... stupid bish...
 
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F i s h y said:
Yup... purple tang got the eggs last night... stupid bish...
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What did you expect? Food is food. Survival of the fittest. If you want to try raising them you are going to have to separate them remember your glass box is a glass box and well food is food
 
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When I got convict two (rip Poto) it was about an inch max and was in a tank with a one inch pt at the lfs, tail and fins split with the top tail tip missing, I will never have a pt.
 
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@Lost in the Sauce I am hoping to add my other cherub, yellow wrasse, and two yellow clown gobies before the PT comes to live with me. He will be the last in. Hopefully he will play nice
 
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@Lost in the Sauce I am hoping to add my other cherub, yellow wrasse, and two yellow clown gobies before the PT comes to live with me. He will be the last in. Hopefully he will play nice
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poor fish. I would recommend stopping the carbon
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Why has HLLE been brought into a discussion about PTs being pains and one finding a good new home?

Edit: not trying to fight. Genuinely confused. Did I miss something?
 

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