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My lovely girlfriend donated her fluval chi to my fish/breeding project.. code name "the love shack"
After aquiring some amazing little Celestial Pearl Danios i decided to take a stab at breeding the little guys.
Once i had the tank planted/cycled i put in a 3F/2M cpd's and let them roam the love shack for a few weeks.
Sadly 2 weeks had gone by and i have not spotted any fry... later i learned that the parrents tend to snack on the eggs which will greatly reduce the fry count.
I recived some Painted fire shrimp in the mail from frank (including some babies) which i feared might be eaten.. so i moved the parrents back to the 12G edge.
about 4 or 5 days later a miracle happened.. fry started to appear in the tank!
I believe i got somewhere from 15-19 fry out of the week or two of spawning (that didn't get eaten!)
The Chi is now doubling is a shrimp/fry tank...
About a month later the fry are actually starting to look like actual fish! (its exciting)
Tonight i moved about half the fry to another 10G shrimp tank to give them a little more space to grow up.
In another tank I put 3f/2m (along with some shrimp) and a few diy egg traps to test a few different methods of breeding.
So far i'm up to about 6 or 7 fry in another grow out tank (from the egg traps). The traps have not yield nearly the amount of fry as the love shack but i'm still early in the testing stages.
After aquiring some amazing little Celestial Pearl Danios i decided to take a stab at breeding the little guys.

Once i had the tank planted/cycled i put in a 3F/2M cpd's and let them roam the love shack for a few weeks.
Sadly 2 weeks had gone by and i have not spotted any fry... later i learned that the parrents tend to snack on the eggs which will greatly reduce the fry count.
I recived some Painted fire shrimp in the mail from frank (including some babies) which i feared might be eaten.. so i moved the parrents back to the 12G edge.
about 4 or 5 days later a miracle happened.. fry started to appear in the tank!

I believe i got somewhere from 15-19 fry out of the week or two of spawning (that didn't get eaten!)
The Chi is now doubling is a shrimp/fry tank...
About a month later the fry are actually starting to look like actual fish! (its exciting)


Tonight i moved about half the fry to another 10G shrimp tank to give them a little more space to grow up.
In another tank I put 3f/2m (along with some shrimp) and a few diy egg traps to test a few different methods of breeding.
So far i'm up to about 6 or 7 fry in another grow out tank (from the egg traps). The traps have not yield nearly the amount of fry as the love shack but i'm still early in the testing stages.