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I have fry!!
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:43 pm
by Rocker
A couple of days ago I did a thorough clean of my DP tank. I remove some java moss that had got out of control and to my surprise I found 3 very tiny DP's. They are obviously new fry and immediatly tried to get some video and pics - proved difficult but I managed. No idea how old they are but are at the stage that they look like tiny DP's. I quickly lost them in the plants and have not seen the again until just now. Two of them are happyily feeding and waiting near the surface for food.The third which looked very weak has not been seen since.
Fantastic news!!
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:01 pm
by OraLacerta
How exciting! Congratulations!
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:06 pm
by Phaedrus
Awesome! lets see those pictures!
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 7:50 pm
by lisalisa
Very, very cool.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:02 pm
by Woland
Fry on Ian!!!
Happy for you.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:54 pm
by Tihsho
What a rarity. That usually happens with easy egg layers or livebearers. Nice to hear it happens with puffs! How big is the tank again? BTW I'd check the suvattii tank, with this luck your arrowheads bred too
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:59 am
by puffergeek
Neato! That's awesome news! I would love to see some pictures... hint hint.
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 3:58 am
by Rocker
The pics at the moment are next to useless I'm afraid at the moment and the video isn't much better. They don't give you an idea of the size against the full size adults.Not very exciting as they are hard to capture but this shows the third struggling and I don't think he has made it. The other two however were out again today but are very camera shy!
http://media.putfile.com/DP-FRY
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 12:43 pm
by The Fisherman
Very cool!! thats awsome!
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 3:47 pm
by Rocker
The third has not been seen for days so i presume he didn't make it. The other two are alot more adventurous. they hang out at the top at feeding time and then disappear the rest of the time. Starting to fill out a bit more now as well.
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:06 pm
by Rocker
again I have found another smaller DP .
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:48 pm
by Nick
I wish mine could breed... silly all male puffing and displaying ten gallon...
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:10 pm
by manutius
wow you are one very lucky puffer guy!!!
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:41 am
by navy
That's very cute! My mollies just had babies, 12 of them...but that is like sooo common, nothing compared with puffer babies lol.
Are you going to keep them all?
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:48 am
by Marty421
any new pics of these little guys?