Help please, a question

Christina · Post by **Christina** » 14 Mar 2004, 19:41

When would you strip a mouthbrooding cichlid with a mouthful of s. multi eggs?

Post by **Birger** » 15 Mar 2004, 00:12

This was in an earlier post I would give you the link but I couldn't find it again

A couple of bits of advice. You would/could of had several times as many babies if you would have stripped the female c*****d a day or two earlier. They'll throw 20-50+ eggs per pass! While being brooded, the catfish do not descriminate between c*****d fry and catfish fry when it comes to eating. If you strip them as clear ghosts(3-4 days post spawn) instead of pigmented fry you can raise them quite easily in a standard egg tumbler(larger the better though).

pturley · Post by **pturley** » 15 Mar 2004, 02:57

I was going to quote myself with the same bit of information, but Birger beat me to it.

Christina · Post by **Christina** » 15 Mar 2004, 03:07

ummm, I don't have an egg tumbler.

So what would ya'll recommend?

Thanks so much.

Post by **Barbie** » 15 Mar 2004, 05:06

This is a pretty big picture (ok HUGE) picture of the egg tumbler I created out of a nylon and a small hydro sponge filter. You should be able to at least get the idea, anyway.

http://www.fishaholics.org/barbie/tumbler.jpg

Here's a link to another DIY one I had bookmarked.

http://www.sydneycichlid.com/diy/diytumbler.html

And lastly, if you want to order one for next time (ever the optimist ;) ), you can get really good quality ones from http://www.hotcichlids.com.

Hope that helps : ) You just want the water flowing over the eggs enough to basically vibrate them, not bounce them around hard.

Barbie

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 15 Mar 2004, 14:15

I got the same results FAR simpler.
just get a small spongefilter
and one of those net-mesh frytanks; the ones you can hang on the inside of a tank.

hang the fry-mesh below the outlet of the spongefilter.

is all!

basically it's the same as the eggtrap described in the CotM article about S petricola; just without the eggtrap, marbles and cave; you leave the spongefilter intact.

JimLynchAZ · Post by **JimLynchAZ** » 21 Mar 2004, 04:50

Birger, where did you get the section you quoted from an earlier post? It mentioned a lot more fry than I got and I wanted to read more about it. I guess I was under the impression the number of fry the cichlid host would release would depend upon how many catfish eggs it picked up. I had no idea it could be so many. Any way if you remember where that thread was it sound interesting. Thanks.

Christina · Post by **Christina** » 21 Mar 2004, 15:49

Jim: here's the original post

http://forum.planetcatfish.com/viewtopic.php?t=5766