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If I raise any it would be in the winter as I don't have time. But we have been traveling a little lately and you need to be around to raise salt water fish. They are more time consuming than this guy.
I never raised mandarins although I have raised plenty of other fish. Now it's some one else's turn. I could never catch them in this tank and I don't have the time to raise them. All my paired fish spawn all the time so it would be a full time job.
Every few weeks my pair of mandarins spawn and every time they do, I say to myself, Self, I don't think a fish could get any more pregnant than her. But every month, just when I think she is going to explode, she spawns.
I used to think she was egg bound but she always pulls through and has...
It's an empty box, any box that light doesn't go through. I used a piece of fence post from Home Depot. You can use the box your Grand Mother keeps hair pins in or her teeth. I used the fence post because they also sell end caps. I used one on the bottom and I cut one out for the top. It holds...
I didn't raise Dwarf Seahorses, I used to raise full size seahorses like the ones here which I collected in the Atlantic. The female is transferring eggs to the male here in my reef. I raised those fry and one more generation on just brine shrimp. I hatched the shrimp and grew them as the...
We just came back from a week out in the east end of Long Island in Amaganset which is about 75 miles from my house. We had sole access to a beach house on the Atlantic that someone we know owns but was in Colorado Our Daughter, Son N Law and two or our Grand Kids also came. I did find a...
This is my vacation feeder, (almost) When I go on vacation I get a girl to fish sit. I don't want her to hatch shrimp, deal with worms or cut clams so I freeze individual, daily portions of food in old film containers. Film was like Scotch tape but pictures stick to it. Any small containers...
Hard to get a picture of the trough because there is a light right over it. This is from the side of the algae trough. The hard bodied tube worms are all over the place and I thinned them out yesterday