Spawning Caves!!!!!
A few months ago I was attending a large garden consumer trade show and met an artisan selling a very cool vase that was flat and round like a river pebble. He was demonstrating how they were used to...
View ArticleBluegills in June!
I finally got a chance to give my new underwater housing for the video camera a good workout. I spent a couple days wading through a breeding colony of bluegill sunfish in Lake Wingra (Madison, WI)...
View ArticleBreeding Fish Series: Panaqolus albivermis – Part 1
I am starting a new video series on breeding fish. This will be a very ambitious project. Over the next few weeks I will start video series on several species. I am also going to start publishing a...
View ArticleBreeding Project – Dawkinsia rohani
I have had a small group of four Rohani barbs for about 5 years. They have been living in my 150-gallon display tank in my living room for quite a while. I have always intended to try to induce them...
View ArticleBreeding Project – Dawkinsia rohani – Part 2
The first attempt to raise the fry of the Rohani barb was unsuccessful, so I collected a LOT more eggs and tried again. I tried a few different ways to incubate the eggs, but the end result was that...
View ArticleSpawning Tank for Egg Scatterers
I am in the process of planning the last rack build for my new fish room, which will be a rack of smaller aquarium specifically for hatching eggs and raising fry. There will also be tanks used to...
View ArticleApistogramma hongsloi Pair
Here is a short video of a pair of A. hogsloi defending a spawning site. I think that they have already laid eggs, as the female is disappearing into the cave regularly for a few minutes, and she is...
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