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Spawn #3: Marble Blue/White Butterfly STM (From Straits) X Crystal STF (From Qian Hu)
Click here for the Spawn Snap-Shots.
Spawn Description: Despite
having a large female and a young male, the spawn was huge. It was after much damage
to the male that eggs were finally laid on 28 Dec 2001. Noticed that it is 4
days after the pair was introduced into the spawning tank.
Spawning Starts: 25/12/2001
PS: Now the fries are feeding on micro-worm and daphnia due to the danger of missing ventral in fries feeding on pure micro-worm diet.
Spawn Observations: 7 Jan 2002: Mortality 0%
15 Jan 2002: Mortality 0% -- This time the fries seems to grow very evenly with all of them growing at the same rate. Feed on
micro-worm, daphnia and baby betta food.
15 Jan 2002: Mortality 0%
22 Jan 2002: Mortality 0% -
Size: 10mm
28 Jan 2002: Mortality 0%
01 Feb: Mortality 0% - Size: 15mm
- 39 containers with selected males and females. Assortment of marbles,
cambodians, steel blues, butterflies, and even a few melanos.
19 Mar 2002: Mortality 0% - Now total at 70 jars. - The marbles showed the best coloration and finnage so far.
10 Apr 2002: Mortality 0% Cull 30% - Prepared for open house on 13 April 2002. - Surprise discovery that most of the Irids actually turned into Blue/White butterflies.
16 April 2002: Conclusion: The spawn is a success with most if not all of the fries surviving till selection. The varieties of colors within the spawn is amazing as described below:
- Black/White Marbles: 20% - Cambodians: 20%, - Black/Red Butterflies: 20% - Blue/White Butterflies: 20%, - Crystals: 20% - Melanos: 2%
Most of the fish are delta tail although some has got crown-tail like extensions probably inherited from the female crystal.
The best of the whole spawn are the Blue/White Butterflies and Marbles. Their photos can be seen under the link to the Butterflies and Marble pages.
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