Started this a week ago. I’ve had a pair in the 50 breeder for a few months now. They eat the eggs every time. So I’m giving Jacks way a try. I removed about 30 eggs. Put them in a Tupperware with a drop of meth blue.
IMG_1767.jpg. Left them in here changing the water twice a day till wigglers. Added clean water no blue to the wigglers about 3-4 times a day till they started swimming. Than added to coffee filters floating in the 50g with parents.
IMG_1766.jpg IMG_1765.jpgWill move them into a 5g soon. Started feeding bbs on the second day. As of now I’ve lost about 5 fry. I’ve got about 15-20 in each filter (2 filters). One is closer to the filter output and does seem to be doing better. No losses there yet. You can see the bbs in a clump on the side. I push them out with a pipet ever so often. So far so good. This is my second attempt. First time after a week in the filters I added them to a fry net in the parents tank. Seems the parents sucked them through the net. No holes but all gone the first day. Will reuse the fry net first in the 5g.
The eggs in the Tupperware pic are another set of eggs from 2 in the 180. These guys also eat the eggs. I took about 30 of these. Just to see if they’re fertile and if I lose the first group I’ve got back up
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Trying Jacks way to artificially raise fry.
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Originally Posted by Iminit
Started this a week ago. I’ve had a pair in the 50 breeder for a few months now. They eat the eggs every time. So I’m giving Jacks way a try. I removed about 30 eggs. Put them in a Tupperware with a drop of meth blue.IMG_1767.jpg. Left them in here changing the water twice a day till wigglers. Added clean water no blue to the wigglers about 3-4 times a day till they started swimming. Than added to coffee filters floating in the 50g with parents. IMG_1766.jpg IMG_1765.jpgWill move them into a 5g soon. Started feeding bbs on the second day. As of now I’ve lost about 5 fry. I’ve got about 15-20 in each filter (2 filters). One is closer to the filter output and does seem to be doing better. No losses there yet. You can see the bbs in a clump on the side. I push them out with a pipet ever so often. So far so good. This is my second attempt. First time after a week in the filters I added them to a fry net in the parents tank. Seems the parents sucked them through the net. No holes but all gone the first day. Will reuse the fry net first in the 5g.
