Thursday, 24 April 2014

Almost Ready

Due to Easter and ANZAC day being so close together this year in Australia, I managed to take a few days off in between to join the long weekends together and ended up with a ten day break - sweet!

Over those ten days, I've done a bit of work in the fish room, including setting up my new holding tank.



Still lots of work required to finish this project, but it's now operational with a few fish already testing it out for me :)

I've also revamped my AquaOne Trio tank in prep for jarring out individuals from my growouts. They are starting to come thick and fast now. It will only be another two or three weeks and I'll be looking to pair some up for shipping to new homes, others will be available as singles, and, of course, some will be chosen to remain and carry on their lines in my own fish room.

Two current spawns are having a mixed bag of results. One has a single fry remaining, from what seems to have been a very small spawn in the first place (<10). He has been non-stop grazing on BBS and has now eaten himself into a case of Swim Bladder Disorder. His diet has been altered to try and fix this. He is growing exceptionally well though...

The other spawn is doing well with 20-30 very active fry buzzing about the tank. About to start bigger water changes and add grated blood worm to the diet.

So once these growouts have been sent out the door, things will begin to wind down a little in preparation for the winter layoff. I still have one growout moving very slowly, and these new spawns to tend to over the colder months, but I wont be doing any further spawns till August/September.

Come Spring - come the push for F2 spawns...looking forward to that :)

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