C. irrubesco fry! please help!

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C. irrubesco fry! please help!

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I have a pair of c. irrubesco in a 20g long tank. It is a very heavily planted tank. Literally no more floor space to add any more plants! Anyway, about 4 days ago I saw a little tiny puffer about 2mm in length swimming about!! I have seen it daily + today after much watching that tank, I was able to see 2 of them! :D :D :D

How do I care for these guys? I have a sponge over the intake of my filters and I added a piece of floss from another filter to the tank to provide infusoria. What else can I feed them? Baby brine shrimp? Would frozen be OK? What about microworms? And at what point should I start offering additional food?

Sorry so many ??? I really want these guys to survive!

Thanks,

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Re: C. irrubesco fry! please help!

Post by Hilly »

Welcome and congrats on the fry.
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There is an article on the library on breeding Suvattii.
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/lib ... ibreeding/

The feeding of the fry may be helpful to you.
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Great article, so I'll head out to the LFS for some baby brine shrimp. I wonder if I should try to move them to another tank? How i would go about this I'm not too sure as they are so small. I wonder how old they are.

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Post by PuffTheMagicFishy »

Perhaps you could just move out the proud parents since you know how many are in the tank, and they'll be much easier to catch.
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Re: C. irrubesco fry! please help!

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Hi again,

My 2 fry have now grown to a size of maye 3mm or so and I see them regularly. I don't want to move the parents as the only empty tank I've got in a 20g and I think the male would kill the female if he saw her all the time. The 20g long I have them in now is like a jungle, lots of hiding places, but I do see him chase her off now and then.

I could probably net the fry, should I move them or would that stress them out too much? I've got a cycled sponge filter I could put in that tank.

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Post by Corvus »

Would be the first breeding of C. irrubesco I am aware of. Are the irrubescos the only fish in there?

If the second tank is well established I'd try to transfer them. Should be less stress than being permanently on the parents' dinner plate. I'd prefer using a clean water glass instead of a net.

I have raised fry of other species in an irrubesco tank, so I think it could be possible to further raise them in there, too, if the other tank is not ready yet.

Good luck und show us some pics if possible!
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Re: C. irrubesco fry! please help!

Post by Martin Hi. »

hi,
are you sure that you have irrubescus? do you a pic of the parents?
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Ok, here are a few crappy pics of the parents, 1st is the female, 2nd is the male hiding. I'll try and get something better in the morning. Any pics I try to take close up turn out really blurry, just suck at using the camera I guess. :(

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They are currently sharing the tank with 3 eel loaches, but I used to have dwarf puffers in that tank about 2 months ago. So it is possible that the fry are dwarf puffers, I guess I'll see as they get older. :)

If I can catch the fry, I could put them in a 33g established tank with 3 albino cories and 10 pygmy cories + a amano shrimp or I could start up an empty 20g for them. It'd be easier to move them into the tank that's already up and running.

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Re: C. irrubesco fry! *correction- DP fry!*

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I started netting them and moving them to another tank and was able to get a good look. They are definitely dwarf puffer fry from the dwarf puffers I sold a while back, and I though there were I or 2 but I've moved 7 so far! :D

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Re: C. irrubesco fry! please help!

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Wow good luck with your dp fry!
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Re: C. irrubesco fry! please help!

Post by Myaj »

How cute! Too bad they aren't irrubescos, but still, baby puffers are good news!
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