Cuong Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Unfortunately there's little chance of rearing these guys as they laid in the community tank (not that they're hard enough to raise already!). Has anyone moved whiptail eggs before, and can I just keep them in a fry saver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tunnel Rat Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Unfortunately there's little chance of rearing these guys as they laid in the community tank (not that they're hard enough to raise already!). Has anyone moved whiptail eggs before, and can I just keep them in a fry saver? Congratulation's best of luck with rearing them I like the photos good work Rat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuong Posted June 24, 2007 Author Share Posted June 24, 2007 Thanks Rat. Here's one more with the whole clutch and the Jager in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antz Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 great pics... great focus, looks really interesting.. never seen eggs up that close. hopefully you save a few ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Miller Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Great shots , would be interesting to get follow up shots as the eggs develope . Cheers Dusty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAZ Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Fantastic photos Cuong.............very clear. Hope you have some success in raising the fry, I believe it is very difficult to get the fry to eat sufficient food to keep them alive, do you have any plans on feeding them. Great fish too. Best of luck mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuong Posted June 26, 2007 Author Share Posted June 26, 2007 Found half of the eggs empty when the lights came on today and would be confident that the geophagus that found the hatchlings would have had a nice meal. I decided to scrape off the remaining few to see what I could do with them, but before I did I took a couple of shots of how they've progressed. You can see the little fry wriggling quite a bit in their eggs now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brisil Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 nice photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyr Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Looks great mate keep the pic coming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuong Posted June 29, 2007 Author Share Posted June 29, 2007 Unfortunately the eggs didn't last very long in the floating tub, but I have moved the parents into their own tank for now and the females were getting rather plumb again. Fingers crossed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Wombat Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 Well done Cuong on these amazing shots. Really nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mani A Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 thats some great work there how are they now? hope its all well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jovyov Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 top pics... never been able to see an egg that close... pretty cool... goodluck with it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFJ Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 very well done!!!they piced a good spot to lay there eggs(apart from in the community tank:( ) but still...great work!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuong Posted July 25, 2007 Author Share Posted July 25, 2007 Thank you for the comments everyone. Well the good news is that they're spawning very regularly and the eggs have been hatching out nicely after I remove them from the glass and put them in the fry saver. The bad news is I don't think they're eating which is the main problem with whiptail fry. I've tried giving them frozen BBS (so it stays on the bottom) and a particular brand of algae wafer that breaks up into particles after a while in water. They seem to just stay on the sides. The eggs themselves have proven to be quite resilient. I threw a small bunch of them out of the fry saver into my bristlenose tank thinking that they hadn't been fertilised properly and had all sorts of black furry gunk sticking to the eggs. Then a found a few of these little guys sticking to the glass a day or two later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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