Post for Tuesday Oct. 15, 2013
I have been observing the babies rather closely after photographing them last night.
The bloated stomachs of some are diminishing in size. Hopefully this is due to to them digesting or at least expelling the unhatched eggs. I witnessed one fry squeeze one out.
It didn't look all that friendly of a process.
Dart and stop.
Wiggle, dart, wiggle, stop.
Drop an egg and victory lap.
Come to think of it my parents dog would do the same thing when he ate too many dog biscuits.
The last few nights I have been feeding powdered flake in addition to the rotifers. They are starting to accept flake more and more. Still not as much as the rotifers that they go spastic for, but its a start.
There have only been a few more die offs. Mostly tiny larvae that haven't morphed yet.
I had the guys at Concept make up a simple 15 gallon tank to move the current batch into in the next week or so.
It's a good thing that I did because, my mated pair laid more eggs last night.
So I have about 8 days to get it all set up.
