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  1. #11
    Larvae
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    The babies are doing very well on a mix of microworms, baby brine shrimp and occasionally some powdered fry food. They have aproximately doubled in size and are now about the size of a newborn guppy! I think they are starting to change shape a little, body's deepening slightly and their nose is getting a bit more pointed, its so cool to see the changes! I think there is about 50 of them...so hard to count the busy little swimmers!!

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    Eternal Moderator Merrilyn's Avatar
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    Well done Wendy. For a "total noob" you've done pretty darn well :P
    Thirty-five years keeping and breeding discus, and I'm still learning :P

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    All the instructions on this site have helped me enormously. I had a few failures with the brine shrimp at first but got there in the end. Microworms I have had for years....my baby guppies like them. The microworms also kept the baby angels going while I tinkered with the brine shrimp.

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    I took some pics of the babies......darn hard to get the camera to even focus on them they move so quick!! I gotta get myself a proper camera!
    Anyhow here they are at almost 2 weeks freeswimming.
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    Good fat bellies on them. They're doing well.
    Thirty-five years keeping and breeding discus, and I'm still learning :P

    Merrilyn has passed, but will not be forgotten - Goodbye dear friend

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    Fingers crossed for you.

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    The babies are now at three weeks freeswimming so I took a few pics....they are starting to get their little angel wings!!

    Also mum and dad have been busy again and I have another batch just starting to swim today....they look so tiny compared to the first batch, its hard to remember them being that small.
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    Hey congrats mum!

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    good work, keep it up

    the fry look nice and fat ad healthy
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    Whew....so hot here this week! Got to 43 today, I ended up buying a airconditioner just to keep the fishies cool in the shed! I'm lucky the husband is the understanding type....

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