i don't feel like walking aimlessly the whole day in a shopping complex just for 1 movie. haven't had a chance to snuggle with you for a loooong time liao! i go to your house first la...int he evening only we go for the movie and dinner ok?

btw, i'm quite surprised you remembered we're going for a movie this weekend! :P

Update on these guys. Largest reached 2cm. Man they grow quick. Still not one died yet. There's one or two runts that're still 1cm. Raising this fellas can be a challenge... not like most fish fry that swarms to food... these guys just lie there.. I have to feed lots and much of the food goes uneaten. Water changes daily from main tank.

Second batch of eggs expected to hatch by tonight. Already turned very dark today. I think they might just pop out while i'm at work. Hope my fish don't gobble too many up. Hard to remove due to it being laid directly on glass. Hoping to stimulate them to hatch in a net for me to transfer to rearing tank. This is going to be a challenge.. to do this without any fry swimming out the sides and being pecked at by fish. Hope the male sturisoma will be able to defend some as well. He's doing a great job! He's been guarding eggs two weeks in a row while hardly feeding... poor fella. I annoyed the hell out of him inspecting the eggs the other day. Touched the eggs.. felt solid and compact. It's quite interesting how they lay the eggs in formation shaped to the male's body so that when he lies on the eggs, he completely covers them. When they laid eggs on the intake tube.. the egg formation was along the tube length, which makes it look like an oval shape. On the glass, it's a circle shape. How did they get so smart?

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they learn by behavioural observation...of their owner....'s girlfriend.

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btw, as in they learnt what to do ah, not what to avoid doing :P

congrats on your 100% survival rate :P

Eggs hatched yesterday night in the AM. Lucky with the timing again. I knew it was time for the eggs to hatch judging by colour. No yellow/orange of yolk. All black is the right time. Backbreaking work saving the fry... had to crouch at the tank and tickle the eggs so the fry hatch about 4-5 at a time. All fry individually caught from my community tank. If the fry doesn't come out, tickling them and calling out "WAKE UP!!! WAKE UP!!!" seems to work .

In mimicking the male's action to help hatching, I tickled and fanned the eggs with my finger and the fry pops up and swims wildly looking for a vertical surface to attach to. Fry at this stage already have colour morphing ability. They immediately assumes the same colour(in tone) as the surface it's attached to. If the surface is light coloured, it turns very pale, if it's a dark surface it turns almost black. These fry cannot be caught with a net they stick hard to any surfaces and any attempt to remove them forcefully will injure them. I may have lost one or two to a marauding trio of rosy barbs. I tried catching them out with a net... impossible. I will pay anyone RM100 if they can catch my rosy barbs in a minute. I charge RM10 for each attempt .

I used the same method used to catch hillstream loaches in a tank. Use a clear jar or a clear plastic container.. cover the fry and jiggle it until it sticks to the jar. The mass of eggs definitely do not reflect the number of fry it contains.... I counted 62 fry this time round. Big spawn! The eggs are laid in a very compact formation so it's hard to tell how many there is at first glance. Using the same method as raising the first batch, shallow water and mucked with dirty tank juice. I now have a tankful of little tadpole looking babies.

The male looks pretty worn out by the entire episode. Looks rather thinner than how he used to be. I'm feeding extra portions of bloodworms which looks appreciated. He has been guarding and fanning eggs for the past 3 weeks now.. I see the female approaching him again... if I were the fella, i'd be thinking "Oh man, not again".

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[[[[AHAHAHHAHA your whiptails are sex maniacs...just like the owner..

lalalalala :P

btw, why next week? i'm seeing you this saturday (8th july) what!]]]]

muahahaha....i cant stop laughing and almost rolling on the floor. Starbuck fellas asking me what so funny and laughing non stop. I shown them this thread and said....why fish forum turned into gf n bf cooing forum? muahahaha.... i am really beh ta han... good thread!! good thread!!

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soyadude, congrats on the spawn...
read at very 1st page that u wanted green water...

i have a 4' tank full... let me know if u want some...

hehehe

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Jason, I want it by the bucketfuls . Tell me where and when to pickup . Or how you grow it :/. I seem hopeless at growing green water. posting pictures once I get the image hosting is set up. About half an hour from now.

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Finds pics here. Sorry for poor pic quality... taken during the day so reflection and glare is a problem.

Let me know if you have any problems viewing pls. First time using this thing.

http://www.dropshots.com/zoomin.php?...0060708&cimg=8

http://www.dropshots.com/zoomin.php?...0060708&cimg=0

http://www.dropshots.com/daymainfram...0708&cimg =11

http://www.dropshots.com/daymainfram...60708&cimg =6

For more pics and full gallery ---->http://www.dropshots.com/soyadude

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Green water? put 1 tilapia in a tank + 50 feeder guppies in a tank out in porch.

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... and you were not meh? still are perhaps. kekeke.

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