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  • My Moba Breeding 2013

    I am having differculty searching my old breeding thread :( so I decided to make a new and keep all my breeding video together. I know some of you are tired of seeing my video ...............SORRY

    Quick info on my collection and setup. Please note that everyone have their own "method" of keeping fishy. This method is my method, it is a bit crazy :)

    Farm #1 and Farm#2:

    Equipments Farm#1 -
    180G, 2x FX5, 2x AC110, 1x fake plant, 100lb Lace Rock, 2 x 300W Heater, Pool Sand (from Home depot), 72" Single T8 Fixture (10K Lamp), 24" T5 Fixture (blue Acritic)
    Equipments Farm#2-
    125G, 1x Fx5, 2x AC110, 2x Sponge Bob Stuff, 30lb Lace Rock, 2x 300W Heater, Pool Sand, 48" Double T5, 24" Double T5 (blue acritic)

    Prisoners Jail#1 -
    10x WC Moba (1:9), 40x Clown Loaches, 12x Albino Sailfin Pleco, 1x Crawfish
    Prisoners Jail#2 -
    8 x WC Moba (2:6), 12x L14 Sunshine, 1x Mbu Puffer

    Aquascape -
    1. We use pool sand for the bedding, the sand barely cover the ground. Pro: Elimate bacteria growth and reduce waste harboring. Con: Drop anything hard, the tank will break.
    2. Lace Rock and fake plant are used as decoration. I tried not to them too many hiding spot. I hate hiding fish. There are only two cave: one for the male and one for wholing female. The caves are big enough where I can see them at all time. There are three breeding spot for them to breed, can you find them?
    3. The heaters are never on. The temperature is whatever my room is. Temp range from 65-72, hence that what my ac is set to 24/7/365.
    4. The lights are on a timer. The main lighting is the 10K fixture (5:30am to 8am, 5pm to 12am) and the 25k fixture is on 24/7. My lights are set where I can see them whenever I am home. Both tanks are set this way.

    Maintance -
    1. 95-98% water changed weekly without changing filters; 30% water change if the fx5 filter are changed. The Fx5 is never cleaned unless the flow slows completely. The two ac110 are changed each month.
    2. The gravel are vaccum and clean throughly, which there are not much cleaning since there arent much gravel.
    3. The aquascape is never distrubed unless I get bored which will stop and messup their breeding for a month or so lol.
    4. I dont check the PH or ammonia. If i see them acting funny, i do a 25% water change.

    Feeding -
    1x Massivore Pellet per Moba. Therefore, 10 pellet (wednesday) and 4 shrimp (sat) for farm#1; 8 pellet (wednesday) and 2 shimp (sat) for farm#2 once a week. Yes, thats all. I tried feeding them more, but they dont eat. I dont know what they are feeding on but they are always fat and always mating No, all my clownloaches are there.

    Breeding -
    I am constantly getting frys. Sometime, I dont even bother stripping them. Breeding usually occurred ever 2-3 week each tank. If you look via all my video, someone is always wholing. My two breeder colony are hand selected from 50+ Wc Moba, which I have held for months. I only kept the ones that breed and the rest I sold or traded. I use to have 4 colony but I downsize since I dont have time for so many.

    I sold them to two of my close friends, one breeding like rabbit but the other not so much. I gave him my prized proven beta male and couple rabbit females but they only breed for him twice. IMO, he keep adding mean fish and he cant keep his hand out of the tank I need to visit his colony to help him out.

    Well anyway, here is a quick summary of my 2013 breeding so far:

    24 Feb 2013: The two from the left are from Farm#2 and last one to right are Farm#1



    19 March 2013: Frys in Tumbler #1 are sold, Tumber 2 and 3 are moved to growout tank. New strip and another wholing female pending.



    22 March 2013: Female stripped and quick video update. With two other female about to breed.



    9 April 2013: Strip the two female after I return from vacation. Quick video update of the frys. Tumbler 2, I lost a bunch because the tumbler malfunction when I was away. But the two new stripped made up for it. There are 3 female from Farm#2 (these were forsale, but sale fell via, The females breed while I was always. The new owner could have made 2x his money back if he have brought it). I will strip these next week.



    if anyone have any question. They can email or pm me, I am here to help all. Dont be shy, no question is stupid. I think I am the few original cypho people left

    More video to come....

  • #2
    Re: My Moba Breeding 2013

    I bumped up your old thread. Congrats on your breeding dude. Awesome work
    http://www.facebook.com/DAScolorado

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    • #3
      Loved the Videos. Moba's are so cool...
      Nothing Kills Evil Like a Sharp Stick...

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      • #4
        Originally posted by SunnyHouTX View Post
        I bumped up your old thread. Congrats on your breeding dude. Awesome work
        thanks my friend :)

        Originally posted by troy tucker View Post
        Loved the Videos. Moba's are so cool...
        Thanks!! Wait until i setup my small tank and put all the frys in there. I am wholing off on selling these frys until i get 100x frys and make a video lol

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        • #5
          i like...

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          • #6
            Congrats on the spawns!!!!!!!! Love the vids as well. I'm sure those fish are keeping you busy these days.
            180g Oceanic w/colony of 8 WC Moba Fronts (1m/7f) purchased from TNT Cichlids in Jan '05 & numerous fry. 1 F1 adult moba male. 2 2217 Eheims, 2 6080 Tunze Streams, WISA airpump, single stage Johnson ETC.....fishkeeping since 1988.

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            • #7
              Very nice mobas and set up

              I would like to see more of the clown loaches. large loach groups are very cool IMO.

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