Spawning set up in the green house. Two 100 gallon rubber maid troughs with sponge filters driven by the air pump located on the bench in front of the troughs. The green grassy stuff are spawning mops. Update on egg fish spawning: I have seen many eggs on the mops but no sign of fertilization. I think that I may have all female fish.

Spring Spawn

I put spawning mops into the pond and tubs in the greenhouse on Friday as a noticed some chasing happening in the pond. On Saturday, pond fish have spawned and Calico Egg Phoenix have spawned. I can't ID any males in the Calico Phoenix fish so hopefully they eggs are fertile.

BEPs in the greehouse

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BEPs and Calico Phoenix into the greenhouse. The plan is to feed them bloodworms and try and get some spawns out of them. The greenhouse was 78 F when I was working in there yesterday. More to come...(hopefully)

Sept 2011 - New fish from Gray, Cincy Ranchu. These are left overs from the past summers Social. Here are some details about the origins of these fish.

From Gary: These BEP fish came from Gerard Siew on this page, he lives in Montreal. The Calico Phoenix came from Washington DC from Russ Taylor. Russ bred the calicoes or got them from me or Jim Fleeker, they were an outcross to a dorsaless fish. He will be excited to see that you are into them, he also has more BEP with different genetics

I have these fish growing in a 125 being fed Hikari purple 3x per day. There is excellent growth of the calicos and decent growth of the BEP.