The butterfly telescopes spawned today! I raised the temperature and increased the photoperiod a little bit about a week ago in an attempt to trigger spawning. I noticed some chasing, so I added a few spawning mops a few days ago, and found them covered in eggs today. I’m fairly certain Minai is the female, but they could be fertilized by multiple males. I think Luca, Clyde, and Benji were doing the majority of the chasing. I am most interested in a Minai x Clyde cross, but I’ll take what I can get for now. 🙂 I had to do quite a bit of rearranging in the fish room to make space for more fry/eggs. I have a few hundred or so ghost bristol fry right now that were taking up all the tank space! I’ll do a Tank Talk fish room update video soon so you guys can see what’s been going on in the fish room lately.
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Wow, congratulations on the eggs!!! I think Minai’s babies will be beautiful no matter who the male is. 🙂 I can’t wait to see them hatch. Very exciting!!!
Congrats!I can’t wait to see them grow 🙂
Are you going to sell any of these?
It depends on how many of them turn out nice enough.:)
Thanks!I sure hope they’re fertilized.They should be, since I was seeing all of the males engage in the chasing… so hopefully!
what kind of filter are you using in the black tubs? 🙂
I believe she’s using sponge filters with a couple of bags of ceramic rings on top of them.
Yep, plus a bag of crushed coral to keep the pH steady.
Is that really enough? 😮 i thought that you would have to have multiple filtration because they are so messy? 🙂
That is so exiting!!!!!!!!! Congrats!!! Can’t wait to see the video on them! 🙂
I’ve really come to believe that sponge filters are adequate filtration if you’re on top of water changes. If you can’t stay regimented with it, then power filters are definitely a must. Just my opinion though. 😉
Hi Jennie ! Your butterfly telescopes are the best and you are the best goldfish owner in the whole world , i sent you a private message on facebook , i hope you can see it and respond , and probably create a nice conversation 😀 , i love you and i really support what are you doing and showing everybody your amazing hobby 🙂 goodbye and good luck 😀
Ps : Minai’s fry will be the best fry ever no matter what 😀
Awesome! I was wondering if you’re worried about Clyde losing his black. I’ve read you have to keep them in a sunny place to help them out. I was interested in a panda and a black ranchu, but this has held me back….
Hi Jennie! How do you induce spawning? Been waiting for my ranchus to spawn. I have a couple of black ones I wish to breed. Can you please show me how. Thanks…
My ryunkin just had babies hatch. Someone told me that the babies around 2 weeks will get flukes. Is this true?
What do you do with them when they grow up?
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