Re: artificial hatching

["Stuart" <stuart@snoopers.karoo.co.uk>]

Someone else who's finding that the parents like egg for breakfast and fry
for lunch, usually the Male.

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> I generally try to guess when to find apistogramma eggs and then steal 
> them from the parents and hatch and raise them myself 

So do I but the sly little beggars usually manage to lay and hatch their
young whilst I am watching another tank where courtship seems to be taking
place

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>I have tried different chemicals and methods and am wondering 
> what methods others have tried.

If I do manage to get a batch of eggs, I place them in a small tank, which
I float in a display tank, and run a small air stone near them, very gentle
trickle of air bubbles, and to date I have had a 90% hatch rate. Once
hatched I change small amounts of water daily and raise the fry for approx.
10 days in the hatching tank before transferring them to a larger tank.

I'm currently raising fry from A. Sp. Opal, A. Caetei and A. Agassizi
"Double Reds" from this method and they are coming on nicely.

Stuart Greenley
Kingston upon Hull, England
stuart@snoopers.karoo.co.uk

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