BEPs in the greehouse

3-17-13

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)

These are the final selected fish from the pond spawn. There are a few double tails. Most of the double tails are brown. The other single tails have magnificent colors. Almost all of the colored fish are nacreous lacking guanine. 

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. 

Lionchu grow out - 7-25-11

Top view of the lionchu. Some are starting to develop nice wen.



Side view.

Lionchu grow out - 6-25-11

A few of the lionchu. The vidoes are a little funky as I'm playing around with lighting.

Pond fish -Hatch

On Sunday, one week post fertilization, almost all of the embryos have hatched. The fry cling to the sides of the tank and to the spawning mops. I plan to start feeding with newly hathced brine shrimp in a few days.

Pond Fish - Spawning Mop

Spawning mop. These were used for spawning of Spotted Gar in Louisiana. I think that they are pom poms.

I used twine and a rock to anchor the mops. The mops are tied a different depths. The fish spawned like crazy in these mops. The only bad part is I don't know who the parents are. Next spring I will isolate pairs with the same setup.
This is my hatching tank and fry raising tank. The mops are covered with embryos. I started with a low flow but learned that a lot of crud and debris accumulates on the mops and embryos so I turned up the flow and periodically shake out the mop.