My Tiger Breeding Journal (with Photos)
This is my tiger/cherry shrimp setup (10L) picture taken several days ago. Notice the baby Endlers in this tank, I have transferred them to another tank after reading that baby Endler eats shrimplets!! I don't want to risk it!
Water parameters are: 23C, pH 7.6, KH8, GH18, NO3 10, NO2 0. No CO2 supply, no filter but just a pump to circulate the water (notice the pump inlet is embeded in the substrate, it is a Hydor Thermopump so it regulates temperature too!). Substrates are minigravels of 3-5mm diameter. 10-30% water change daily.
Note that the cherries are pale colour perhaps to matched the substrate. When they were kept in EcoComplete substrate, they were bright red!!
Lighting is office table halogen light (20W; produces bright yellowish light) from Ikea, on for 12hrs daily.
Daily suppliments: 3 drops (0.3ml) of Seachem Excel, 1 drop (0.1ml) of Potassium Iodide (8mg/ml concentration), 3 drops of blackwater extract (Kent). Weekly, 2 drops (0.2ml) of Seachem Fluorish. I am not sure if these suppliments are any good but I certainly see dramatic growth of my Cladophora and java moss, despite no CO2 injection!
Last month the eggs looks solid brown:
The tiger carried the eggs for after about a month, during this time the eggs gradually turned from brown to transparent!
During the last few days, the eggs have turned from brown to nearly colourless. At first I thought they have hatched but a closer look, all the eggs were still between the swimmerets.
Today, I noticed that most of the eggs were gone, except one left in the mother!! First thought was the eggs must have hatched!!!!!
Look around the tank and found one BABY TIGER!!)
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