Heros notatus gone wild! Who wants some fry?

[peathenster]

once they start, there's no stopping them!

need to move my rotkeil fry into a 55g too...

Apparently the barring pattern changes as rotkeil grows too. Fry have 9 bars, but the 7th disappear quickly. The 8th bar remains full whereas all others become either partial (3, 4, 5, 6) or disappear (1, 2, 9).

 

[ryansmith83]

They look great good job. I finding raising fry to be the hard part when it comes to breeding. Do you have photos of the parents?

The parents originally came to me from peathenster so I'm sure he's shown them in one of his severum threads. I've got a picture of the dad from a couple weeks after his arrival here:

The adults are on the small side, but I finally have them eating pellets and I hope they put on size over the coming months.

Here are a couple bad pictures of the fry from tonight. They're eating beefheart. I just moved them into this tank on Friday. Yes, it's covered in algae, but the water is clean. They get nearly 100% water changes every day.

Only a few more weeks until they're ready.. which is a good thing, because batch #2 started eating baby brine today and there are about 80 - 100 of them.

 

[Snowflake311]

They look great good job. They are so cute.

 

[peathenster]

They came from Grey (aka Wetspotcx)...awesome fish!

What are you going to do with that many fry?

 

[stewnew]

i had a good time reading this thread

ryan- where in florida are you at, i would love some of these fry

 

[ryansmith83]

What are you going to do with that many fry?

I'm not entirely sure. This next batch is the last one I'm probably going to raise. I moved the parents into the 210 with my other sevs. I've had several people PM me about fry, so I think I can get rid of these pretty easily.

ryan- where in florida are you at, i would love some of these fry

I'm in Palm Coast, about an hour from Orlando.

 

[keaser06]

i cant wait to get my hands on some of these fry and grow them out. these will be my first true f1 fish (althought i did have an arro and some pbass before so im almost positive they were f0) plus i love my green sevs and these things look even better than my fish.

 

[livebearerfreak]

um my lil green sev LOOKS JUST like the guy you posted on the first pix........

The parents originally came to me from peathenster so I'm sure he's shown them in one of his severum threads. I've got a picture of the dad from a couple weeks after his arrival here:

The adults are on the small side, but I finally have them eating pellets and I hope they put on size over the coming months.

Here are a couple bad pictures of the fry from tonight. They're eating beefheart. I just moved them into this tank on Friday. Yes, it's covered in algae, but the water is clean. They get nearly 100% water changes every day.

Only a few more weeks until they're ready.. which is a good thing, because batch #2 started eating baby brine today and there are about 80 - 100 of them.

 

[ryansmith83]

It's difficult to get good pictures of the male with my camera. The spots are actually black and dark maroon, but they wash out and look red in the pictures. It's also hard to describe the greenish-yellow sheen on the gills and breast of the fish. It's just something you have to see in person. They look like they're glowing when they're in breeding colors.

I haven't seen any black spots on the fry yet. I'm not sure when they'll develop. I would assume I should see them at about 2 - 3". That's when my F1 notatus from Rapps started to show them.

 

[livebearerfreak]

if i do infact have a hero notatus then i want him/her to look like yours!