Re: catching krib fry

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

While Erik and I have siphoned many krib fry out of his 75 gallon planted
tank, one of the funniest ways we had to get them out was a modified
plexiglass "krib" trap.  Probably the minny version of a bear/cat trap.

Erik made an acrylic/plexiglass box, with a sliding gate at one end.  We
would put food in there and wait, when the fry were in the box, drop the
gate and that was it.  Also good for catching that lone adult.

These days, Erik doesn't usually let me put spawning fish in his plant
tanks..even though most recently he spawned our wild caught tetras,
Hemigramus belotti (?sp)..so it is 20 gallons for breeding tanks and I
pull the parents and raise the fry, or just take down the tank when I want
to get the fry out.

Kathy


On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Kim Rogers or Steve Hatfield wrote:

> I have about thirty three week old kribs that I
> siphoned out of a planted tank and their all doing great.
> Steve Hatfield
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "S. Ong" <sab_ong@yahoo.com>
> To: <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:10 PM
> Subject: Re: catching krib fry
> 
> 
> > Does siphoning them hurt them at all?
> >
> > --- IDMiamiBob@aol.com wrote:
> > > In a message dated 4/17/00 8:11:50 PM Mountain
> > > Daylight Time,
> > > stevekim@indy.net writes:
> > >
> > > > If the fry are small enough you can siphon them
> > > out with a piece of air line
> > > >  tubing this only works on very small fry, I
> > > suppose you can use larger
> > > >  tubing for larger fry.
> > >
> > > I use a 3/8 inch tube (abou 9 mm)  and catch the fry
> > > while I do water
> > > changes.  It sometimes requires a couple days of
> > > chasing them with the tube,
> > > but with patience you can get almost all of them.
> > >
> > > Bob Dixon
> > >
> > >
> > >
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