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hey guys,just wanted some ideas on what i can do with around 100+ ba babies,they are big enuff to be taken to my lfs.but ive already filled up the 4 local fish shops i use,and they wont take any more ba untill they sell the 1s they have!ive used them for feeders,given them to all me fish buddies,every time i turn around,they have had another batchi had this problem b4,with my other ba pair,but they slowed rite down when mixed with other cichlids,and the pair im talking about above,have just gone to town,so any ideas guys,im at the point where i cant give em away!

What are ba babies?

young blue acaras

I want some, but I don't have a tank for them. Plus I don't think you want to ship to the US...

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yup blue acara,any ideas!its goota happen soon to,cause there fighting and lip locking,plus i was watching them b4,and i think 2 are pairing up,so i wanna get rid of em b4 they start dropping eggs everywhere

www.aquabid.com

usually a good place to unload fish..

This is the type of fish problem that I need

The Amazon Nut...

Lol, then get some healthy blue acaras, youll have the same problem in about 4 months.

Gawd bless small doradids eating fry, Id have had a heart attack without them long ago. My main blue acara pair alone saturated my regional market with 1500 fry last year alone. Prolific isnt the word, no sooner have you cracked breeding them, and youll wish you hadnt. lol. Bit like convict cichlids in that respect. In the end you find yourself getting brutal on wigglers and not letting most of them get past that stage. Just raise a few if someone shows an interest now, the adults produce eggs and fry every 2-4 weeks, and I just whip a few wigglers out and raise em on if people want em, I let 95% of the fry get picked off by night scavengers in darkness when the adults cant guard them effectively.

In fact speak of the devils and they shall appear as they say, they just started spawning as I was posting.

http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a245/longhairedgit/?action=view&current=blueacaraspawning.flv

yeah its became a pain in the bumonce i got rid of my large flowerforns,the babies started stacking up,the last time i went up to my lfs,i had my fish transporter with me,and the dude goes "you havent got more babies in there have ya,i havent sold the other 2 tank loads you GAVE ME yet"and as i said above,thats only 1 of the 4 shops i use?i have ba coming out my earsway back when i got my first pair,i said to my girlfreind,i wish theyd hurry up and spawn,WELL THEY DID, AND NEVER STOPPED,they say beware of what you wish for......

Awesome video

I'd love to see your dorsigs sometime. That's the fish I'm holding out for, still waiting for the breeder to check her e-mail. Crossing my fingers nothings happened to the 6 being saved for me (almost 3 months old) if so I'm going to be extremely disappointed. Once I get them I can rehome the keyholes. I've had it with the male keyhole, who is more like a 'rumphole' to put it politely.

The Amazon Nut...

The dorsigera just started spawning last night too, must be something in the air lol, so I cant video em for four days, if I disturb em they easily go EESOB on me, but they tend not to with fry, so all being well a video of dorsigera and wigglers can be done in around 4 days.


The blue acaras decided they were sick of trying to get eggs on one end of that rock, so they eggscavated it,lol, and packed more eggs on. Laying went on for a full hour. Blacks heads in the eggs already, be hatched by tomorrow. Hell of a difference when you have weighty properly mature adults, the eggs just hatch in no time at all. Took a week when the parents were smaller. Always kept em on 79f, pretty much most of their lives.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a245/longhairedgit/fish261.jpg

"The dorsigera just started spawning last night too, must be something in the air lol"

Congrats yet again !

"they easily go EESOB"
I still remember that term ROFL

Sorry Hokese for the thread sidetrack. Sounds like you need to start culling fry, or buy a piranha to deal with the excess.

The Amazon Nut...

I would take a batch off your hands if you wanted to ship them

problem solved? you pay for shipping, he gives free BA babies. ask nicely

yeah id love a priana.what i mite start doing is when i see fry or eggs,ill put my divider in to keep the parents behind that and let the other fish slurp em up.i never thought that they could be so prolific,even my old convicts wernt so bad,even my fhs,they had way bigger batches,but no where near as many as the ba...horny buggers

How much is it to ship fish from that far away?

i never shipped fish b4 so i have no idea,anybody no shipping rates for fish

i got rid of the last batch of fry,by keeping mum and dad behind the divider,the pleco slurped em up rite away,but the cheecky buggers,have already layed ANOTHER BATCH,man they just dont stop.