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Fish talk => General Aquarium Discussion => Topic started by: fishybusiness on September 08, 2006, 05:27:44 PM

Title: peppermints wow AGAIN
Post by: fishybusiness on September 08, 2006, 05:27:44 PM
was outside playing around in my barrells of water which in one i have some peppermints i've bee growing up when i lifted up a piece of bamboo i found a large male on a nest of eggs   8O
 my first batch of peppermints  :P  very exciting
nigel
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Post by: nick on September 08, 2006, 05:36:09 PM
awsum, keep us posted on how they go
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Post by: bristlelover on September 09, 2006, 11:33:08 AM
that is excellent to hear. when you say in a barrel does that mean that there is no heater or anything like that.
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Post by: AndrewF on September 09, 2006, 09:12:29 PM
Barrels hey ...

All that talk about peppermints being difficult to breed and all!!

Ill be over tonight Nigel to raid those barrels!

Andrew
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Post by: fishybusiness on September 11, 2006, 03:26:41 PM
went out this morning and there was a clump of egs outside his log so i netted them up amd tumbled them all seem ok have heads and tails
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Post by: fishybusiness on September 12, 2006, 07:12:26 PM
managed to save about 50 babies all rest got kicked out and eaten by other fishies here is some pics
[img:a8ff2ed76c]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/nigelrat78/IMG_1228.jpg[/img:a8ff2ed76c]
[img:a8ff2ed76c]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/nigelrat78/IMG_1229.jpg[/img:a8ff2ed76c]
[img:a8ff2ed76c]http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/nigelrat78/IMG_1230.jpg[/img:a8ff2ed76c]
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Post by: Tabbycat on September 12, 2006, 07:17:41 PM
Arnt they just so cute  :D
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Post by: nick on September 12, 2006, 07:32:44 PM
wow, looking good! are you going to keep them or sell them
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Post by: fishybusiness on September 12, 2006, 07:42:49 PM
probably sell some and keep some
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Post by: fishybusiness on September 13, 2006, 10:20:17 PM
you would never guess was outside cleaning the peppermints barrel this morning when i noticed anouther male acting funny so i had a lokk and yep another batch of eggs  :D
Title: peppermint bristlenose
Post by: bristlelover on September 15, 2006, 05:58:20 PM
hi can you put some pics of your barrels up. do you have any filter or heater or anything like that in them. i thought one batch without knowing was good but two thats excellent. well done. thanks.