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Box body Red Dragon Flowerhorn x Long body SRD Female SPAWN!

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woodyoz

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Ok a week ago in the previous thread I posted some flowerhorns I'm getting since a friend was moving. I got this Box Body Red Dragon in exchange of some SRD babies and put it in a temp basement tank, in the partition i put a female that I separated from a breeding pair because I was not planning on breeding due to time and space constraints. Two days in the partition and this morning I go to feed and find the female had jumped the partition and was gliding in circles with the male and cleaning the glass floor. So I threw in a plastic plate, switched off the filters, put in an airstone and went to sleep. Woke up to find too many eggs guarded and aerated by the pair. No sign of fighting or battle wounds or aggression between the pair.
Now since I'm to flowerhorns what should I do and expect? I did add a cap full of blue liquid to save the eggs from fungus.
Considering the male is mature and fertile help me with whats next. I do not have brine shrimp or daphnia or vinegar eels. Any readily available fry food? Any DIY fry food recipes? (Boiled egg yolk?) When do I separate them? When do I add the filter and do a water change? Lighting no lighting? Feeding to parents? (They are eating all the time even now when I drop in pellets) Any idea about the babies and if I should grow out some?
Attaching the video Parents with eggs. And some images.

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The parents should do all the work really.

I used Hikari first bites to great effect when my Sagittae were spawning. You can pull the eggs now if you want, if you have a tank for them, it's just you have to do all the work with aerating the eggs and such. I would leave them with the parents. May lose a batch or two but in time they will learn how to do it right. I also suggest letting your algea grow out, the parents will heard them around to graze on it like cows.

 
Are they feeding on those first bite flakes in the video?
Since I have my tanks in the basement I never get algae, although in the tank rack in my bedroom upstairs (3 tanks 4 ft each stacked) I used it to close out the window through which direct strong sunlight would come into the room for 6 hours a day. The top tank which has some guppies and pink danios is murky green and you can't see the fish anymore unless they come near the glass. The middle tank was covered with white vinyl and the water didn't turn green but the walls inside the tank are green and brown. High PH underground water that leaves no visibility due to salts covering the glass even the underwater level, in one week you see nothing.
Just put 17 discus in the bottom tank with a big male flowerhorn in a 1 ft partition. Apart from the salts on the glass, no algae.

Can I use the algae/ green water from the top tank to kick start an algae cycle in my breeding tank with eggs? Yes I do have spare tanks but I'm not worried about losing a batch or two if I can save myself from the work the parents would eventually learn to do.
My main concern is the parents getting aggressive with each other and one killing/injuring the other. Most flower horn owners I know around me always keep them separate and only when they want to breed they let them stay together.
No ideas about boiled eggs yolk? Will daphnia work?
 
So 36 hours in and I noticed the female was beating up the male so I seperated them and left mama with the eggs. No black eggs no black spots, I guess the male is shooting blanks. Due to the white plate it's difficult to see if any of the eggs are white.

Here's a picture, what do you think?
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woodyoz said:
So 36 hours in and I noticed the female was beating up the male so I seperated them and left mama with the eggs. No black eggs no black spots, I guess the male is shooting blanks. Due to the white plate it's difficult to see if any of the eggs are white.

Here's a picture, what do you think?
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They look fertile they should hatch in around 3 days.
How long since they laid them?
 
It's been three days right about now, just took some pics and the eggs have started to turn white in patches. No black eggs yet
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No black dots when the male and the female started cleaning the plate I left them along in order not to disturb them, so I'm not sure if the male fertilised them or if he knows how to do it, or ifs simply not fertile. I don't mind losing a couple of batches of eggs or babies but I hope the male is fertile
 
Aaaaaand the female ate the eggs
 
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