Long time no update.
There have been a few successes and a few failures since my last post.
I'll try to summarise with pictures as they're supposedly worth a thousand words.
I'm please with how the rescape went. I nearly changed the name of the journal to tree ents bath time after
@Wolf6 spotted a figure in the hardscape on the right of the tank. It's not as complete as I wanted as things become rushed but I can add more in time.
The reason for the rush was these new additions as well as some venezuelanus. I'm overstocked but it won't be long term as a big tank is planned for the future and these are 3 months old so still small.
Rainbow breeding is where the success and failure has come in. I painstakingly picked eggs every day for a week until I had 20 fertilised eggs. 18 successfully hatched out. After a week I moved them from an in tank breeder net to a hang on breeder box and this is where the problem occured. For some reason I lost them all within a couple of hours. I think it was the slightly larger fry in there but can't be sure.
On the flip side, the success. 8 or so eggs must have been laid in plants in my holding tank and now I have 8 fry growing on. I'm trialling growing them out with moina so that they have a constant food source and I don't have to hatch out brine shrimp.
Unfortunately my male rainbow jumped out and I didn't find him until it was too late. So I'm hoping that I get a male from the fish I've bred.
Here are some pics of the fry at various stages. I think the smallest is a couple of days and the largest is about 2 months.