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Update on our perch hatch in tanks.

The first hatch is doing well but not as well as I had hoped. We are confident that brine shrimp only is not enough to hatch as many fry as we would like.

So we have set up two 2.5 gallon green water tanks to grow some Infusoria and Paramecium or what ever little goodies we have growing in our planted tropical fish tanks foam filter. We set the two tanks up in the window of the shop and loaded them up with our seed from our planted tank and crushed up some pleko pellets for some dry feed.

With a microscope we can see lots of little swimmers in the water at 300X. They do seem to be attracted to light and easy to siphon off with out taking the food out of the tank too. Feed some to the slow hatching tank from our April 4th hatch and they are eating like crazy. You can see the fry flinch or dart then feeding.

Now we have set up another two chunks of ribbon to do another hatch. I expect from todays pictures they will be hatched tomorrow. These fry will see the Infusoria and Paramecium for 10 days or a bit more then switch them over to the brine shrimp.

We think we will have more young living past the first week and a half feeding the smaller feed to them.

Keep you posted.

Cheers Don.