Betta Fry: Day 21
It's been three weeks since the beginning of the second spawn; a few are fortunate to be still alive. I think somewhere in between the arrival of my culture of microworms and the consumption of the last brine shrimps, some had starved and it proved lethal. I'm now down to less than 20 fry, and I'm seeing a great difference in the sizes of the biggest and the smallest. The larger ones ('large' meaning ~5mm) are starting to show a tint of colour - when I shine the light from a certain angle, I can see faint blue. They're very active now, seldom staying still, and they're all gluttons. And they like to stick/swim towards the centre of the tank, away from the sides (making photography difficult!). Happily, my microworm culture is thriving in a box of decomposing oat (yeast), which means an unlimited supply of fry food to last me a lifetime. They're free-living nematodes... small, wriggly, and disusting to look at by the gazillions.
3 Comments:
Post pics of your nematodes.
i hope you're practicing proper health and safety procedures. U really don't want one of them accidentally ending up in your tummy (the nematodes i mean). Gory stuff they do.... EEKs
Your strand of java moss is really green, so green that its like its been taggeg with GFP (Green fluorescen protein) from jellyfish!
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