Frusterdated's Electric Blue Acara Fry

[Ken B]

Frusterdated bought 2 electric blue acaras 2 weeks ago or so and a few days later they spawned. I am raising those fry and here are a few pics of them. They are about 9 days old now. They are feeding well on live and decapsulated brine shrimp. I estimate about 40 fry. These are cell phone pics so quality not very good.

[ptran]

Congrats on the spawn!

[mnemenoi]

Very cool! Definitely interested to hear how they do and grow out

[Ken B]

Very cool! Definitely interested to hear how they do and grow out

I will keep you posted on their progress. Next milestone is when they start eating flake food.

[frusterdated]

Thanks for keeping em

[Ken B]

4/12/15 Update on EBA fry. Fry are all doing well. They are now feeding on flake food in addition to brine shrimp.

[LordBarron7692]

Just picked up two myself but I think I've gotten two males

[Ken B]

Most of the time we don't get lucky like Frusterdated did! If I am trying to create a breeding pair and male and female aren't easy to tell, I will buy at least 4 but chances of course increase as you add more.

[LordBarron7692]

yeah was over at HAW for maybe 20-25 min even had John come over and look and just couldn't tell but grabbed two anyways hopefully will be able to get a few more here in the next few days

[Ken B]

The babies are barely 1/4 inch and I can see the blue color already. I think my cell phone camera won't show it but I will try later to get pics that show the blue. They are regularly eating daphnia, newly hatched brine shrimp, half grown brine shrimp, and flake food.

[Ken B]

Update. Babies are now 33 days old and wearing their electric blue suits! They are eating brine shrimp, daphnia and flake food and seem to be having a fun time eating off of the foam filter. They are sharing their 10 gallon tank with a few corys. Here are a few pics. They are not very good. I need to find out what kind of camera is good for taking these kind of pics. I know about fish breeding but don't know much about picture taking!

[Ken B]

Update on frusterdated's electric blue acaras

It has been almost a month but here is the latest update on Frusterdated's Electric Blue Acaras. They are all doing well and eating anything I offer them. They are now about 1/2 inch. It seems like it takes the fry forever to grow sometimes. I took a few pics and this one is the best although I know it is not very good. But you can see the blue covering most of the body. I assume a trait like the electric blue coloration is recessive and so I expected to have at least a few fry that have normal coloration. But, it looks like all of them have the electric blue. Maybe the electric blue acara does not even carry a gene for the normal coloration. So as long as both parents are electric blue, then all of the offspring will also be electric blue. I am learning! I just started a 100 gallon stock tank of daphnia outdoors so I should soon have a strong supply of daphnia for the fry. I think they will grow faster on a live food diet.

[ptran]

1/2" for 1 month is pretty fast growing IMO.


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[Ken B]

1/2" for 1 month is pretty fast growing IMO.


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You are right Ptran. It only seems slow because I want them to grow fast. Your big guy (girl?) and the prospective mate are still courting I guess. They have one end of a 100 gallon tank and 10 other severums have the other end. I need more big tanks!

[ptran]

LOL ain't we all on big tanks?

I don't remember how long since you bought that gold severum from me. Thought they would have been breeding like rabbit by now.