I’ve been planning to start this thread for a while now unfortunately an unforeseen even has made me push it out now. I want this thread to basically go over a long period of time from raising up young BumbleBees attempting to spawn and raise the fry and just document my experience and how things go.
A bit over a year ago I bought 2 CB baby BumbleBees and they quickly became my favourite fish in the fish room, I believe they were both males one started becoming pretty aggressive to the other. I rehomed the one getting attacked as the aggressor had the better colour and personality, at the time those were the only 2 fish available so I planned to start growing out a group and attempt to pair them with my current one whenever they became available again. It took me just over a year to finally track down and acquire a small group of juveniles unfortunately things didn’t go to plan and late last night I was doing a water change on my 200 (which houses my big Bumblebee) and forgot to put the glass pane back on and woke up this morning to my big guy dried up on the floor.
photos of when I first got the original 2 and of my dried guy:
He was an absolutely amazing fish and easily a favourite fish I’ve ever kept, I wish I had pictures of him alive he was a stunning Oscar.
Atleast I was lucky enough to acquire a small group of wild caught juveniles before his passing, they currently are in a 20gal long quarantine that share the tank with 2 delhizi bichirs (until the bichirs are big enough to not be eaten by my senegals) the tank runs on a Tidal 75 HOB and 150W Eheim heater.
Here are pics of when I first got the 3 checking out their bichir tank mates:
I’ve had the 3 for a little over 3 weeks now and already they have put on ALOT of size it also just so happens my LFS got in a small batch of these aswell (wouldn’t tell me their supplier) so I’m hoping they aren’t related but I’ll be picking up 2 more after work today! Ill take some pictures of the new and old ones and update the thread later tonight.
A bit over a year ago I bought 2 CB baby BumbleBees and they quickly became my favourite fish in the fish room, I believe they were both males one started becoming pretty aggressive to the other. I rehomed the one getting attacked as the aggressor had the better colour and personality, at the time those were the only 2 fish available so I planned to start growing out a group and attempt to pair them with my current one whenever they became available again. It took me just over a year to finally track down and acquire a small group of juveniles unfortunately things didn’t go to plan and late last night I was doing a water change on my 200 (which houses my big Bumblebee) and forgot to put the glass pane back on and woke up this morning to my big guy dried up on the floor.
photos of when I first got the original 2 and of my dried guy:
He was an absolutely amazing fish and easily a favourite fish I’ve ever kept, I wish I had pictures of him alive he was a stunning Oscar.
Atleast I was lucky enough to acquire a small group of wild caught juveniles before his passing, they currently are in a 20gal long quarantine that share the tank with 2 delhizi bichirs (until the bichirs are big enough to not be eaten by my senegals) the tank runs on a Tidal 75 HOB and 150W Eheim heater.
Here are pics of when I first got the 3 checking out their bichir tank mates:
I’ve had the 3 for a little over 3 weeks now and already they have put on ALOT of size it also just so happens my LFS got in a small batch of these aswell (wouldn’t tell me their supplier) so I’m hoping they aren’t related but I’ll be picking up 2 more after work today! Ill take some pictures of the new and old ones and update the thread later tonight.
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