Berried Blue Velvet

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As of today, 17 days after she was berried, my first berried female has released her eggs. I saw a few babies still hanging on under her tail, but most of the eggs were gone and I did see one baby hanging out on the side glass algae. :D

Hopefully they'll grow quickly and stay healthy! :cheers:
 
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JesseM

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pbmax said:
As of today, 17 days after she was berried, my first berried female has released her eggs. I saw a few babies still hanging on under her tail, but most of the eggs were gone and I did see one baby hanging out on the side glass algae. :D

Hopefully they'll grow quickly and stay healthy! :cheers:
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That's awesome to hear!!!! I'm hoping my Carbon Rilis berry up soon. I also got some Taiwan Red Cherries that have berried.
 
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Good luck! :) You need to get some chocolates so I can buy from you when my next shrimp tank is ready ;)
 
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binbin9

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any new photos? Jesse's Blue Velvet just released for me! I cant find them anywhere yet but the eggs are definitely not under the mom any more.
 
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Only bad ones. :) I caught some of another berried female and a horribly blurry shot of a baby a week ago. I can always find at least one in the tank. I'll see about processing some of the bad ones....

Congrats on yours!
 
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Here are a couple of awful photos (but hey, you asked ;)), one of a blurry glob that's actually a baby blue velvet and one of an out-of-focus berried female. The male in the 2nd shot does appear to be mostly in focus...



 
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Hehehe, that's the left side tank glass, epic huh? :D It's way worse on the other side... super thick too. I figured why clean it since shrimp like that kind of stuff?
 
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binbin9

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exactly, Cardinals love that stuff. I have only one left and threw it in with my yellows and he is thriving in there even in lower PH. Go figure. I may buy some more and just raise some with my yellows.
 
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JesseM

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pbmax said:
Hehehe, that's the left side tank glass, epic huh? :D It's way worse on the other side... super thick too. I figured why clean it since shrimp like that kind of stuff?
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How on earth did you get the sides to look like that?!
 
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Well, 36 - 46W of fluorescent light over a 10g tank, a history of over-feeding and over-stocking (way too many male endlers), and a full compliment of liquid ferts on top of all that. It's heavily planted, but even with tons of floating plants on top of root and stem plants I wasn't able to keep the algae down. I did some decent gravel vaccing after I yanked all the endlers and malawa in prep for the blue velvets so the algae growth has definitely slowed down a bit. On the right side glass you can see where I cleared a section of the super-thick growth (about 1/16" thick) :) It's by far my best algae growing tank.
 
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Here are some better photos I took this morning of a baby and a different berried female (plus a volunteer male). My lighting was questionable and they wouldn't stop moving for me, so they're slightly blurry; but they're a definite improvement over the previous set.







 
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They're growing fast! The oldest babies are over 1/4" now and I see them everywhere. I have so many tiny ones now that I'm seeing them everywhere too. I had to look hard to find the first batch when that's all I had; I'm sure you'll see more with time.

I did lose an adult male over the weekend, but that seems to be an isolated incident. I'm still seeing berried females and those that aren't berried are saddled. These guys are my most successful shrimp thus far I think - as far as how quickly and prolifically they started breeding for me from the time I got them. My Malawa may have been quicker, but I don't count them. :)

My yellows are still somewhat stagnant - all berried females have released and they don't seem to care about making more babies any time soon. The yellow babies seem happy and healthy; no problems there.

I think I'm having trouble with my blue bees - I know they've hatched multiple batches by now but I can't seem to find any babies or juveniles. This isn't particularly surprising giving my crappy history with most non-neocaridina species; hopefully I'm just not seeing them.
 
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binbin9

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nice I'm glad to hear the success.

Yeah the funny thing about the blue bees. They are probably the best hiders. Twice now I thought I had them all die off.

Once I found them in my aquaclear HOB.
And the other time when I ripped my stratum out I found all of them, a berried female and a few babies just hanging out like nothing happened. =)

it's like they take a vacation and return home without notifying you.
 
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