Zebs still spawning

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Zebs still spawning

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My alpha male had barely evicted the last batch of fry over the past week and danged if there are not another batch of wigglers in their already. Santa or somebody up there must be sniling really hard on that tank.

Since I did the fry hunt and counted about 75 assorted size fry total, there have been 3 more spawns. Counting the one from the group right before I bought them, there have been 14 spawns in 9 months and my best guestimate is they yielded about 135 hatchlings- there were 17 confirmed deaths and likely another dozen likely preished without a trace.

I never in my wildest dreams thought this was possible and wish I could claim some special skill or technique was involved. But alas all I did was get great stock, put them in a decent tank and then give them clean water and good food. And, of course, I did everything Barbie suggested.

I am now up to 3 tanks completely devoted to making and raising zebra fry and it looks like I may have to make it 4 pretty soon.

My holiday wish for all is that in the new year all your zebras become as prolific as mine have been and moreso.
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I know that having to listen to me crap was really hard on you, but I think you might feel like it paid off now, don't you? Congrats again ;).

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wow!!!! congrats on the new spawn!!!

hopefully mine will grow up and be as active as yours!
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how many zebs in what size tanks for breeding ?

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how many zebs do you have in what size tanks for breeding ?
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I have documented everything on a thread at Fishaholics.org, you can read aboutit from start to the present, including photos at http://www.fishaholics.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2288
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:shock: Congrats on all the baby zebras :D Sounds like you have a great system going for breeding and raising them. Keep up the great work.
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