Jewels everywhere

findad

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The wife wandered through the LFS and saw some "pretty red fish" since she shows little interest in my fish, but allows the mayhem, I decided to get them for her. They were Jewels so i bought 3 of them and introduced them to my 44 pentagon. They immediatly started kickin the fins off some left over mollies I used to help cycle the new tank. Had to move everyone else out so now have a Jewel tank, then the third wheel started to get abused so i moved her out. After an algee outbreak i started to remove rocks in an attempt to clear up that problem and doing some big water changes. I noticed stuff on the back wall??? EGGS, bunches of them. 2 days later they were gone, thought they had eaten them but no they are on the sand in the corner, and wiggling. 3 days later they are free swimming and everywhere. Like John & Kate plus 508.

http://s626.photobucket.com/albums/tt347/tshannon3/The%20Jewels/?albumview=slideshow&track=share_email_album_view_click

They are awesome parents, taking turns fanning the brood. I saw them going around the edge of the herd and eating the stragglers, no, she brought them back to the group and spit them back out!!!


Will they need to be seperated eventually??
 
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LOL! no, not that i know of they dont haveto be moved, but i moved some from a friends tank and put them in a 20 then grew em out n took them to the petstore n swapped em for live rock n a couple o small frags..hehe :-D
i have had several jewels for a long time now n seems i got my first ones the same way u got yours..rofl. gotta luv them "tollerant of our obsession or adiction" kinda wifes.rofl. mine put up with 20 tanks n her house for a long time befor we downsized lol. they ranged from 220g 4ft by4ft arowana clown knife, red tailed cat tank...to a betabowl n evrythin freshwater in between..lol. anyways these guys n gals r very animated n fun hope u enjoy em!
Beaux
 
Wow great pics!!
I agree about the filter intake, filters love to eat fry!!!
 
looks great and like the others i would either sell or trade them to build up something new. If you want i woild take a few off your hand i just started a new tank so let me know.
 
Beautiful fish! Congrats on the fry :)
 
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