Pygmy Island - 60P high-tech

[DeepMetropolis]

Great growth, jealous of your riccardia! Thats a moss that never liked me..

 

[Libba]

 

[Libba]

I've been emptying the contents of my biomaster filter into another small tank with some media, an airstone and some leaf litter. I've had quite a few fry emerge from the detritus in my filter media. I haven't successfully kept any alive yet but still trying.

 

[hydrophyte]

Really nice. Well done!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

I haven't successfully kept any alive yet but still trying.

Micro / Banana worms help.

cheers Darrel

 

[Libba]

Hi all,

Micro / Banana worms help.

cheers Darrel

Thanks Darrel. Have still got the microworm culture going so will definitely try to feed fry with them

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Have still got the microworm culture going so will definitely try to feed fry with them

I feed <"micro worms to the adults"> as well.

I just <"leave the fry in with the adults">, they don't eat them, and its a tank without any other fry predators. I couldn't ever catch the fry, even if I could see them, and they are <"pretty elusive egg depositors"> (singly among the plants), so you rarely see any eggs.

I've had quite a few fry emerge from the detritus in my filter media.

Bizarrely they may well do better in the filter if it s reasonably clean, just because there are plenty of small live food items. I have big sponges on the filter intakes, which stops them syphoning up any fry, but in different set ups I used to have Cherry shrimps etc quite happily living in the filter.

cheers Darrel

 

[Conort2]

I've been emptying the contents of my biomaster filter into another small tank with some media, an airstone and some leaf litter. I've had quite a few fry emerge from the detritus in my filter media. I haven't successfully kept any alive yet but still trying.

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Maybe try empty some of the filter mulm in there too? It’s only one photo but it looks rather clean in there from that image.

 

[Conort2]

Oh and moss if there isn’t any already, it contains lots of micro organisms the fry will eat.

 

[Libba]

Oh and moss if there isn’t any already, it contains lots of micro organisms the fry will eat.

There's filter mulm and decaying leaf matter in there so should be plenty of infusoria

 

[Libba]

Bizarrely they may well do better in the filter if it s reasonably clean

True, but not an option for me. They came out of the pre-filter of my oase biomaster which I need to clean weekly or I run into trouble.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

I don't have any Grindal Worms (Enchytraeus buchholzi) at the moment,

Shortly after this thread I managed to source some more Grindal Worms and I have a healthy culture going now.

cheers Darrel

 

[Libba]

2 week old tetra fry. Hopefully can keep this one alive.

 

[Libba]

Not looking too bad despite being quite neglected lately...

 

[Hufsa]

Those riccardia cushions 👌 chefs kiss

 

[Libba]

Moving house soon so the tank will be coming down. Final photos of this one:

 

[Libba]

Here's the tank now, since moving. It's very much just a home for fish now rather than an aquascape. Plenty of botanicals this time, bare aquasoil, plants and hardscape laid down haphazardly late at night while moving house. But the fish are healthy and happy and its low maintenance. No Co2. Lights 12 hours per day on 10%.