10-04-2011, 07:28 PM
I'm going to go through this last couple of weeks again,regarding tadpols,as i think, although its a bit of a repeat that some folks might see this and not elsewhere,and might just help them,this ain't easy becuase i rate this as a big mistake on my part,making a bad call,all be it with good intentions.
Our darts get rainwater,its filtered,but thats it,our tadpoles get the same,we are experimenting with the gizmo as i call it,which there are pics here,and also rear some more conventionally in glasses. All of the newly hatched tads,get put into glasses,where we can watch them like hawks,starting with about half an inch or so of water,and a brew of oak tea,and abit of oak leaf,we don't feed for a while not much in the first week at all,later in the week,i pop in a bit of elodea covered in algae.
once we have a tadpole past week one,well its still here. We occassionally loose the odd tad in the first few days,not many at all considering this is our first season and the auratus are so young.We loose them before feeding has commenced to a mouth fungus,i think this is likely to be airbourne from speaking to folks,it might well be in our water, who knows.I wondered wherther it might be down to our oakleaves being old,the new supply will drop soon,so i ommitted the tea/leaf from our tads,with in say 48hrs the fungus hit real hard,all guys that got it died i think,we noticed something really wrong early one evening,read for a while and someome suggested aldercone might help,I'd stashed some, within an hour we had a strong teabrewed and started treatment,a few drops then a bit more so not to shock the little chaps. long and the short of it no more fungus developed,oh i forgot this was our best strongest hatch.....oh well,i've lynched myself,beaten myself up ,and am now phyisophical i guess. Within a couple of days the wheels started again and new little guys started to grace us with their presence,we are using the alder,i'm lead to believe its stronger than almond and oak,all good so far no wretched fungus ,its still very early yet,but it might help someone,whom sees this somewhere.Iandian almond is the most commonly used,if this isnot sorting this fungus then there is a chance that alder cones might just help,i think both are really preventative rather than treatment. ok thats enough of the heartbrake,on to better tad stuff heres a few snaps of the gizmo just to show the differences in algal growth,possibly down to different tads munching more,an individual thing, and some of the guys,just popping those always worrying front legs,some pop the fronts together some over a couple of days in our case with these sperblue auratus,anyway
pics
take care ya'll
Stu
Our darts get rainwater,its filtered,but thats it,our tadpoles get the same,we are experimenting with the gizmo as i call it,which there are pics here,and also rear some more conventionally in glasses. All of the newly hatched tads,get put into glasses,where we can watch them like hawks,starting with about half an inch or so of water,and a brew of oak tea,and abit of oak leaf,we don't feed for a while not much in the first week at all,later in the week,i pop in a bit of elodea covered in algae.
once we have a tadpole past week one,well its still here. We occassionally loose the odd tad in the first few days,not many at all considering this is our first season and the auratus are so young.We loose them before feeding has commenced to a mouth fungus,i think this is likely to be airbourne from speaking to folks,it might well be in our water, who knows.I wondered wherther it might be down to our oakleaves being old,the new supply will drop soon,so i ommitted the tea/leaf from our tads,with in say 48hrs the fungus hit real hard,all guys that got it died i think,we noticed something really wrong early one evening,read for a while and someome suggested aldercone might help,I'd stashed some, within an hour we had a strong teabrewed and started treatment,a few drops then a bit more so not to shock the little chaps. long and the short of it no more fungus developed,oh i forgot this was our best strongest hatch.....oh well,i've lynched myself,beaten myself up ,and am now phyisophical i guess. Within a couple of days the wheels started again and new little guys started to grace us with their presence,we are using the alder,i'm lead to believe its stronger than almond and oak,all good so far no wretched fungus ,its still very early yet,but it might help someone,whom sees this somewhere.Iandian almond is the most commonly used,if this isnot sorting this fungus then there is a chance that alder cones might just help,i think both are really preventative rather than treatment. ok thats enough of the heartbrake,on to better tad stuff heres a few snaps of the gizmo just to show the differences in algal growth,possibly down to different tads munching more,an individual thing, and some of the guys,just popping those always worrying front legs,some pop the fronts together some over a couple of days in our case with these sperblue auratus,anyway
pics
take care ya'll
Stu