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Happy New Year!
A quick update on my Rio Mamore situation: My
Rio Mamore eggs hatched and fry are doing very well while their mom is busy
eating the next batch of eggs.
Adam,
I followed angelfish breeder's method to treat the
eggs. It's not scientific, but it worked well. I added just a drop
of Methylblue to the small specimen container carrying Rio Mamore
eggs so that the water in the container looked light to medium blue
(the color of Windex spray.) My angelfish breeder friend tints the water
with Methylene blue till it's deep blue without any harm to eggs or
wigglers. When the eggs hatched, instead of dropping activate carbon
into the container, I did a water change very gently using a turkey
baster. Methylblue might have lost its effectiveness by that
time since I saw some gelatinous stuff starting to grow on unhatched white
eggs.
Due to the tank space shortage, now my fry are
in a plastic shoe box fry container (ingenious invention by a Discus
breeder) floating in a 29 gallon tank with a Tetra's sponge filter (the one
with an elbow attachement on top) sending in filtered
water continuously from the main tank.
Tomoko
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