RE: Questions about raising apisto fry -Red Wigglers

["Max Gallade" <m.gallade@jdneuhaus.com>]

Raymond,
I like to throw in my two cents . I agree with Bob on removing the
male(after many different attempts ).
I removed my borellii male from my 10g breeding tank this morning to be on
the safe side.My borellii fry are about five days old now.The female kept
the male away from the fry and he stayed in one corner of the tank.
I assume your problem raising borellii fry is  the feeding of decapsulated
BS eggs.The fry wont recognize  the BS eggs as food,plus they are probably
to big to eat for them.
I feed mine a slurry of live BBS,tetra micro mint and cyclop eeze , they
seem to do fine on this diet.Pictures of my borellii's are at:
http://user.mc.net/~warewolf/apisto.html
Click on galleria.
Another subject:
Anyone out there with experience feeding red wigglers.
Do you freeze them and shave pieces of or do you cut them in small pieces?
I wonder what the best method is.
I'm thinking about putting them in a blender and grind them up.My wife
doesn't know about that yet:).
Max
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-apisto@admin.listbox.com]On Behalf Of Raymond Wong
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 9:08 PM
> To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
> Subject: Re: New picture up. / Questions about raising apisto fry
>
>
>
> thanks for posting the picture Bob.. looks very nice.. with the
> red in the
> face.. different from the borelli I have..
>
> I'd like to know everybody else's experience with raising up
> borelli fry...
> do you leave them with the parents or pull them out .. I've done both but
> I've found that they fry with the parents grow up much faster.. except
> there's less fry... i think it's because they swim to the other
> side of the
> partation where my cautoides eat them .. but i've seen the male
> munching on
> them also.. i was reading over the articles at thekrib.com and it says to
> remove the male... maybe i'll just remove the fry next time.. I believe I
> should have free swimming fry in around 2 weeks time.. my pair
> spawn's every
> 4 weeks.. and I just received a borelli trio from someone else..
>
> i'll try to raise some fry in a 2.5 or 5 gallon tank... hmm hope that
> works... but i'm too lazy to hatch brine shrimp.. as of now i feed all my
> fry decapsulated brine shrimp eggs squirted into some java moss
> where they
> can pick at them (i think that's what they do)
>
> Acutally I did somethign very stupid today.. my kribs have some free
> swimming fry.. aroudn 30 ~ 40 of them.. I really wanted to raise a bunch
> this time so i removed the fry and placed them into my 5 gallon
> tank with 11
> ~ 1 month old krib fry.. ahh but they ate my new krib fry. i only have 2
> left.. should have set up another tank but I was too lazy.. as a result i
> have 11 1 month krib fry that are really full!!
>
>
> can someone who has experience or pulls out apisto fry regulary
> instead of
> letting their parents raise them please e-mail me and trade some
> thoughts or
> things i should be doing to ensure I can raise they fry
> successfully.. with
> minimal death...
>
> my 2.5 and 5 gallon fry raising tanks all have a sponge filter,
> an airstone
> and a small bag of 'ammonia remover' initially I do 25%~ 50%
> water changes
> with water from the parents tank then after a week I do water
> changes with
> aged water.. anything wrong with my method? or any suggestions to improve
> it?
>
> Hope you all don't mind the rather long e-mail..
>
>
> Thank You
> Raymond Wong
>
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