preparations for breeding a variety of fish

We've had an interesting day today at Father Fish. We've been reorganizing a lot of our tanks to set them up for breeding. We found that we've got a number of species of fish that are mature where we have mature pairs that are trying to breed. They're in mixed tanks so we're setting up tanks to be able to do just that. Let me walk you through a little bit and show you what we're doing this is the 55 that we set up uh in november november 15th the 55 dirted tanks um we're going to put some pairs in here probably cockatoos we've got a bunch of cockatoos they're mature they're looking really good we want to be able to get them spawning we could do two or three pairs in here and make that work in this tank we have a bunch of baby severums might be able to see them moving around the school of severums that were just born so we are pulling the parents out it looks like they've been pulled so that these guys can grow up in here. This is an eight-foot system. It's about 40 gallons, a couple of hundred baby severums. Nope, no, they're still in here. There's one of the adults. So we'll be taking them out a little later today so that we can, and then we'll set them up in a tank by themselves. They're going to go over here on one of these 55s. We have salvinia in here that we're pulling out. I think they're already out. And probably the severum are going to go in this tank. Up here are a group of buffalo heads that spawned here about four months ago that are almost to breeding size they're a little better than an inch they need to grow another half inch to maturity and then we'll begin pairing them off that'll be great fun this tank has julies in it that we started out uh they were half an inch they've been in here now for about three months and they're just beginning to reach breeding size there are at least three of them in here they're the or not a pair this contains a pair of of a Przewalskis there's the male right in front they have spawned there are babies in here that are about half an inch that's the female um we think we may have lost some of the babies from the parents wanting to spawn again very often that'll happen particularly with these small cichlids they'll uh when they're ready to go again they'll chase the babies away it's not really a a colony fish so we i did see a couple in here earlier we're going to try to get them out. There's the pair. So this is their tank. And the next time they have young, once they get about a month, then we'll pull them out and let these guys go again. This tank has a group of, kind of a mixed group in it. It's got some nudiceps, peacock gudgeon, an oddball, dolichochromis I think no pairs of anything. So we've got to get in here, clean it out, see what we've got, and see what we can set up. This we had Noviin. We've moved them down here to this 55 below us. No, is that right? I think. Are they going in here? I don't know. They're going over here in this tank. They're not moved yet. This is a 65, an old metaframe. that we're going to be growing out Dovii and one or two other species of Central American cichlid, Sinisphilum, I think. We've got some Sinisphilum. So they'll be growing out in here. So that's part of what we've been about today. Let's look on the other side. It's one more little group, excuse me a minute, one more little group over here. So we've been pulling from this tank in order to be able to achieve pair. We've got some Sinisphilum out of here. On Salvini, we do have one large pair of Salvini in here that we'll probably just leave in. That's the male. And we'll take a female. We've pulled a couple of Sinisphilum out. There may be one more Herichthys dempsey. There's another Dempsey. There's another Dempsey. And the rest are kind of mostly Africans. That's a Dempsey, I guess. Those two. Some Oscars. There's a Red Bay Snook. This is maybe a flowerpot. Maybe. And, of course, the frontosa. Nice male frontosa. Moving along. These are guppies. We're getting more guppies in later today or tomorrow. I'm trying to beef up the guppies so we have a nicer set of strains of guppies. This is all kind of mixed, these are all mutts. Kind of a mixed bag of guppies. Down here are shrimp, and the shrimp will be doing well in here. There are a lot of babies. These are mostly cherry shrimp in here and black shrimp in this one. They're coming along fairly well. And then over here, pea puffers somewhere. Really good. Really, right there. Pea puffers in here. There are clown killies in here, and also scarlet badies. So it's kind of a mix of two species of fish, but they're species that get along pretty well with each other. Same thing in here. Scarlet badies and some clown killies. There are a couple of clown killies right there in the corner. You can tell them from the top by their shiny eyes. And then a few guppies in here. Oh, is that a shrimp? Yeah, there's a little cherry shrimp down there. And some nice banner guppies. We do have a betta of eggs. This guy's got eggs. They spawned yesterday, so they'll be hatching kind of momentarily since about a day i haven't started yet now there are some babies in here you can see i'm moving around maybe there are a few they're tiny but they are a baby we've got three four five not many more than that i don't think now we also got some uh zingus zingus Azules, Monoculus, Temensis, and Calabari. Anybody who's interested in these kinds of cichlids give me a buzz because we got a lot of each of them and we're ready to move them on. We will be getting some Discus in the next week or so that'll go in this tank. So that's kind of what we've been about today is getting things moved around and set up. There is one more system I want to show you in the back here. I'm just going to run past these and then go to the back. We've got some interesting stuff in here. These are koi oscars. A giant redtail is about three foot. And then over here are some stunning koi butterflies. And and there's also a about a 14 inch red tail don't know where he is a couple of guys come out and you see him stony goodle fish they're about 10 inches see what that red tail is he's not in here i don't know where he is there's some turtles in here these are side necks of two two side neck turtles, and also some musk turtles, I believe it's two of each. So that's been what we've been about today, was to keep track. So what I want to be able to do is I want to be able to show you spawning from the beginning through the process of spawning, raising babies, and so forth. So this is the beginning of that process. Thanks for clicking through, taking a look. Talk to you again soon. Father Fish, signing off.