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Posted: **Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:37 am**

p.s what do you mean by "airlift" ?

thanks for all your help!!

Posted: **Sun Mar 25, 2007 1:04 pm**

Posted: **Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:00 pm**

andrewcoxon wrote:
nerlite, apple, malasian trumpet snails & those tiny small ones that come in on plants...

which ones would be best?

p.s, i noticed some eggs we're smaller than others... is this natural? will the smaller ones hatch?

thanks again john..! sorry for all the questions but could someone plz clear these ones up for me too?

Posted: **Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:03 pm**

Malaysian trumpets or the small ones.
About the eggs i have no clue, you'll see in the near future

Posted: **Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:23 pm**

hi,

just got back from my girlfriends house and some of the eggs have fungus on them.... what i would imagine fungus would look like. it seems to be the smaller ones... some look ok and i can see little eyes... just put a trumpet snail in to get rid of it. whats the best way to seperate the eggs without hurting them?? someone please adivse!

andrew

Posted: **Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:05 pm**

ok the eggs hatched early this morning, i woke up and checked them at 5.30am just before i went to work and i could see wrigglers.

some of the eggs fungused so i sucked out everything in the egg that was mouldy with a pipett and just left the shell so it didnt spread.

i had 10 eggs originally and iv got 6 wrigglers.

iv got some pics of my set up and babies so enjoy:

Posted: **Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:07 pm**

Posted: **Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:08 pm**

Posted: **Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:15 pm**

Congrats on the wigglers andrew, everything with the breeder looks quite allright to me, just add a little shelter for the wigglers, and remember keep it clean!
(use a clean new small paintbrush for the walls and bottom and afterwards syphon the breeder with an airtube, do this every day)

Good luck mate!

Posted: **Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:52 pm**

Aw Andrew I'm so chuffed for you! Lovely looking set up and how cute are those wrigglers?

Posted: **Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:00 pm**

Over the moon mate - cant believe how quickly she got it on... I should have kept her for a little longer !!

Posted: **Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:31 am**

I was getting a little jealous reading this thread - but...

I've just swapped out a cave in our tank as our zebs didnt seem to be getting it on since I swapped the caves about.... the male came out and dived straight back into his old one....

As I lifted the cave up in the tank - out pops a clutch of eggs

They are still really light yellow/green so only just laied too

Spawn number 2!
(sorry I'll take this back to my thread

)

Posted: **Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:34 am**

congratulations

Posted: **Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:43 pm**

thanks so much guys! and brilliant news russell! congratz mate. more photo's on your thread now then!!

il update this one with some more pics soon too

best regards.

andrew

Posted: **Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:30 am**

hmmm one wriggler died yesterday and another was one was dead this morning.....

they'r egg sack seems to burst.... any idead why?

down to 4 now... im really worried im going to lose them one by one....

plz advise...

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