Re: brooding female?

["K & D Martin" <martndk@ibm.net>]

Tell us all, i'm interested. I've got a pair of kribs that breed regularly
but it is in a community tank and most of her last spawn got eaten.  She had
a hundred or so wrigglers so i was pretty disappointed.

kym
-----Original Message-----
From: David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>
To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: brooding female?


>Hi again Jason.
>
>I regularly pull females with eggs or wiglers out of a tank and for
>the last 15 years I can say that I have never had a negative incident.
>However you must take into account the source of the fish. Problems
>seem to arise when we are dealing with highly inbred fish or , most
>often!, we are providing inproper water conditions. The fish I have
>been dealing with have almost always been wild or offspring from my
>origanal wild stock. With that disclaimer, I beleive the odds are high
>that taking a peek will be a safe bet.
>
>Personaly I will take a female Apisto cave and all out of a community
>tank and place her in a 5 gallon with some java moss and water sprite.
>If she has wigglers i take a turkey baster and suck them up and
>transfer mama and alvins into a 5 gallon as well. How long has the
>flower pot been in the tank? Be aware that it takes about 10 days for
>the eggs to hatch and then for the alvins to become free swimming.
>Whats your temperture in the aquarium? Beleive when when I tell you
>ten days can seem like an eternity when we are waiting for some fry!
>Good luck Jason, let me know how things turn out.
>
>P.S. If you deciede you want to pull the female with eggs/wigglers
>e-mail me and i'll go over the details with ya.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>---ruddigar@home.com wrote:
>>
>> What if there are wrigglers in there?  Will she abandon them if I lift
>> the flower pot?  I'm not overly caustious about this "spwan" (haven't
>> done much to the tank in a while).  BTW she's been in there about as
>> long as the flower pot has been in the tank.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jason Miller
>> Sherwood Park, AB
>> (780) 464-9635
>>
>> David Sanchez wrote:
>> >
>>
>> > Lastly if you cant resist you can just pick up the cave and have a
>> > look see, i use to do this alot (still do sometimes gotta know for
>> > sure) when i first started out and never had female abandon eggs or
>> > fry. Hope this helps.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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