Re: Artificial Hatching of Ram Eggs

["Wendy McKenna" <wendy_mckenna@hotmail.com>]

Thanks Joe!
I'll give it a whirl with the next batch.  Methinks it's the nighttime 
snacking habits of my Cory Melanistrus group honestly.  Poor rams don't 
stand a chance once the lights are out! LOL
Wendy
Sunnyvale, CA
(but native NYer, :))

>From: joeah@webtv.net (Joe Hildreth)
>Reply-To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>Subject: Re: Artificial Hatching of Ram Eggs
>Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 01:25:37 -0400 (EDT)
>
>About artificially hatching ram eggs.  I've raised lots of rams.
>However, they, in my experience, are tricky.  If I can leave them with
>the parents for a few days after they are free swimming I have much
>better luck.  In your case, that doesn't appear to be an option.  So I
>would use water from the parent's tank which should be soft and slightly
>acidic at 80 degrees.  Place the airstone near the slate with eggs and
>wait for them to hatch.  When they are free swimming feed them
>microworms until they can eat brine shrimp(this usually takes 3-4 days).
>I try to keep the water very clean by siphonng 50% every 2-3 days.
>Sometimes for no apparent reason they all or at least most of them die
>after 3-4 days of free swimmig.  If i can leave them with the parents
>for 1-3 days, they seem to do much better.
>
>Joe Hildreth
>15 Cedar Street
>Potsdam,NY 13676
>
>
>
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