RTR wrote:Great! But fry rearing is really a chore IME. Cultivating algae and the right size 'pods is pretty demanding - or was back when I tried it.
As I've already prepared for raising mandarinfish fry, I have a production going on two different kinds of phytoplancton and a mix of rotifiers and copepods. When the fry has grown a little bit, I will also start up my brine shrimp hatchery. So all is prepared to welcome little ones. Luckily.
But I was a bit stressed out last night, when I had to dig up something to put the new fry in, and find a place to keep it too. The area that I have in my house that is for breeding stuff, is stacked to the limit: two small fish tanks that is actually for fish, plus one small empty one (but for water and equipment), two ice cream boxes of corydoras fry and eggs, 5 bottles of copepods/rotifiers/phytoplancton (and lighting for them too), one tank with a large plancton collector in (to keep mandarin eggs and fry in), and some equipment as air pump, magnifier glass, flashlight, a large box of everything needed in fishkeeping (well, a lot of it, at least), fish food, and so on... The tank with my new fry I had to put on top of the box where I usually keep my dog food (but luckily not right now) - there was no place for it anywhere else. Here's a pic of some of the total chaos in my kitchen right now.
LOL. I think the police would have raided the house if they saw these things. They would think there were a lot of things that looks suspicious. 