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Post by murdock6701 on Apr 13, 2009 6:23:25 GMT -5
guess I han't lost my touch after all! had 34 new gold twin bar sunsets born late last night and just for the heck of it, put the other pregant twin bar in the birthing tank before I went to bed at 1 a.m. and woke up this morning to over 50 more new fry! have 3 blue high fins ready to pop as well as a white mm so looks like the pond is stocked already, 3 months earlier than last year!
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Post by Carl on Apr 13, 2009 8:54:28 GMT -5
Congrats John! ;D
I wish you well, your pond project last summer was really neat.
Carl
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Post by kagome on Apr 13, 2009 10:01:48 GMT -5
I hadn't joined yet last summer, so can you please fill me in on what it entails? You breed platys inside and stock the pond? What about winter?
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Post by murdock6701 on Apr 13, 2009 11:07:14 GMT -5
I sell them by October - have a heater in there 24/7 - I convertred an old rubbermade horse watering trough into one - go to members pics and you can see the pond and the deck I had to build to support it
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Post by Carl on Apr 13, 2009 11:37:11 GMT -5
The EA Home page blog even has John's pond as part of the background (the old background on the board does as well) Carl
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Post by bikeguy33 on Apr 13, 2009 16:39:45 GMT -5
way to go there johnny....glad fish keeping is becoming enjoyable again.if ya get too many fry, my fish are always hungry....lol.
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Post by murdock6701 on Apr 13, 2009 20:03:47 GMT -5
hop on your scooter and I'll fill your saddlebags for ya my friend - 80 at a time was just a bit more than I was prepared for - my white mm also popped today in the breeder box and when the fry swam up to see mama, she promptly ate them - managed to save 1! am glad she didn't have 30 or more otherwise I'd be filling the bathtub! I should be a millionaire at this rate! LOL - have 3 blue high fins ready to go as well - prolific littl buggers but this is what the pond is all about! and that is my joy - pure strain little platys
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Post by goldenpuon on Apr 14, 2009 14:24:47 GMT -5
Congrats John. Great that you've got some new fry. You great play breeder!
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Post by goldenpuon on Apr 14, 2009 14:25:32 GMT -5
Sorry, I meant, "great platy breeder.", not great play breeder.
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Post by brenda on Apr 14, 2009 18:21:03 GMT -5
Very cool to hear John!!!
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Post by kagome on Apr 14, 2009 23:48:33 GMT -5
That's so cool. I have a 100g trough like that for a stock tank. I had a friend that had one and he put a big HOB filter on it and made it the tank for his Yellow-Eared Slider turtles and he added guppies which helped feed the turtles. I've thought about buying my parents a new stock tank and converting the old one into a goldfish pond but I would have to put it on the front porch to keep it out of the sun and prevent the fish from being poached in their own tank but no one else seems to keen on the idea. The idea of putting in a small in ground pond keeps getting kicked around, my husband has put them in before when he worked as a landscaper. He's even done ones with waterfalls and fountains, which you have to have around here to cool off the water. But things are just too tight right now for us to be making that kind of investment. So I will just have to live vicariously through your pond! lol
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Post by eve on Apr 15, 2009 23:07:10 GMT -5
congrats john, i'm really happy for you
keep us up to date with some pics if you can ;D
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Post by cashay on Apr 21, 2009 11:06:16 GMT -5
CONGRATES GRAND POPS! ;D
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Post by babygeige on Apr 21, 2009 12:02:04 GMT -5
Wow! That's a lot of fry! Congratulations!
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Post by cashay on May 22, 2009 10:31:25 GMT -5
YAY! Congrats!!!!!! One of my mollies is pregnant again also, but not going to keep them this time,,, Lunch for the others. haha I have more then I want now, Had the mollie that kept producing seperate from the males, for over three months and she was still having babies..... hmmmmm I knew they held and stored but this was rediculious! as soon as the others got big enough to survive with out worrying of being eaten, she goes and has another batch , and then another!!! sheww the others can eat away.....
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