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Posted: **Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:05 pm**

LOL Rob.

Posted: **Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:11 pm**

. I start buying zebras from here and there since 2 years a go but not anymore. I have all of them in One tank full of caves. They had spawn 6 times. Not sure who with who but I just check the caves weekly. Now I am giving them a rest until next Year. (No more fluctuations on water Parameters). To be honest I am not sure how many Females and Males I have. I learned the hard way when on the first spawn (22 eggs) I tried artificially to hatch them and I lost the war agains fungus ! . Now I changed the approach . I just separate the cave from the main tank with Male & eggs and leave the Male to take care of the eggs.
You don't need this much of zebras. I know I have many lazzy ones here.

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Posted: **Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:20 pm**

here is my share i got problably 2 males and 2 females.
how many zebras could i put in a 170 litre tank?becuase i maybe could buy a couple more from someone.
thanx

Posted: **Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:10 pm**

11 adults
3 are females, hopefully maybe 4-5.

About 25 fry from 1 days to 2,5 months old

Posted: **Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:14 pm**

5 - Three adults, two sub-adults - I THINK there are 3 females and two males, but time will tell...

Posted: **Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:03 pm**

Hi,
I have 21 in total
10 adults
4 sub-adults
7 fry
I did have 16 fry but the adult male killed 9 of them just before I moved them to the breeder

Posted: **Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:23 pm**

Hamish,

I did have 16 fry but the adult male killed 9 of them just before I moved them to the breeder

Any idea what led to the male eating the fry?.

I believe that interference such as shining a torch into the cave , camera flash etc sometimes causes this behaviour. Some others tend to disagree.

Regards,
Des

Posted: **Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:59 pm**

Hi, Des

Im not sure what happened, they had all just hatched out that day, I was sitting in my chair next to the tank when I saw a load of bits coming from his cave when I looked in there were little bits of fry left on the floor, this was his fist spawn so he may have just been inexperienced, the seven others are all doing fine tho.

Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:10 am**

I have an amazing colony of 1! he is my Blue eyed boy! he is set for the movies the first blue eye zebra!

i love him! will be gettin more very soon though

Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:41 am**

My zebras have blue eyes too. It's just when you take a flash photo they lose the blueness...

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:16 pm**

well i got another today i am not totally sure what it is but i will be making a pic soon too see.but i am leaning towards a fullgrown female at 2.6 inches.
so that would make 2 males and 3 females all adults.
take care

Posted: **Mon May 09, 2005 6:40 pm**

i have 11 zebra's

1 large female
2 suspected females
2 males
rest to small to tell

all in same tank with fewer caves than fish to ensure competion from the best fish for the caves so only the strongest spawn

Posted: **Tue May 24, 2005 9:30 pm**

8 at the moment

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