Baby Copper Cardinal Fish!

[Bongo Shrimp]

Here they are! This video is when they had just hatched. According to Matt Pedersen, this may be the first ever documented hatching of copper cards in captivity. Right now they are in a larva tank aka 5g bucket with larval rotifers for food and an air line for some water movement.. There are about 50-70 alive right now.


Be sure to watch in 1080HD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIeBGdOborM&hd=1

~1 minute old:

~1 day old:

 

[GhostCon1]

Cool, hope you can raise all of the little fry

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

I'm gonna try!

 

[wdt2000]

Wow thats great!! Keep us posted.

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

~2 Days

And Here's where we stand so far:

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Here's the pics of the-

~1 minute old:

~1 day old:

Had to delete them from the first post so here they are again.

 

[somdinwong]

pretty cool

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Through three days:

 

[billsreef]

Very nice :beer:

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Through day 4:

 

[LukFox]

Wow, good luck! Such pretty eyes.

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Yeah, bigger eyes than I expected on tiny babies.

 

[savageAJC]

w00t! nice good luck!

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Through ~5 days:

 

[DBarsotti]

VERY awesome. keep the updates coming.

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Ok- GREAT NEWS!!! I SEE FULL TUMMIES!!! Look at day 6! Almost all the remaining 10 or so larvae have full or almost full guts now! Guess they were unable to eat the rotifers till just recently.

 

[savageAJC]

soo coool thanks for the pics!
wish theyd hurry and grow!

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Day 7. This one has a full full gut!

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!

Round two here we go. Got about 100 babies.

 

[Nebthet]

Holy crap!!! Those are a lot of babies to hold in such a small mouth... Can't wait to see how these little guys do. Congratulations.