Drape Fin Barb Fry and how To Grow Utricularia

Fry!

your guess is as good as mine as to where the fish are.

 The Drape fin barbs have produced fry! It's nice to be the first to spawn a fish in your local circle. From what I hear over at Aqua life, I am the first to have spawned these guys, Of course since the tank they are in is dense so i have no interest in hunting down fry and moving them to another tank for rearing. I figure since I barely see the adults in the underbrush that the fry should have an okay time reaching a non edible size in the tank. The tank is full of daphnia and other freshwater inverts so growth should spectacular. For anyone interested these guys are housed in a ten gallon tank on my porch under a car port. Temperatures have been as low as 57degrees over night. The parents have definitely fattened up in that tank.

All bladderworts look pretty mush the same.

     Also in this tank is some kind of  Utricularia. I'm simply not knowledgeable enough to identify individual species. My specimens must be natives that got caught when I caught my daphnia. Whats cool about these guys is the little traps in the corner of the stem axis. They aren't big enough to take anything larger then daphnia, mainly built to catch infusorians really. They grow much like moss but much more rapidly then mosses in my experience. The tank is under a car port, so is constantly in moderate shade. They tank has no water movement, outdoors, natural air flow take care of gas exchange. I dose 1ml of Excel every day. Inside the tank is going in front of a window and will have a sponge filter. This may effect growth or cause the plant to die, much the way turbulence kills duck weed.