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Finally!

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:33 am
by gugge
It seems that my biggest male was no good at all so i finaly gave upp and let all my l46 together in the same tank... a smaller male showed his worth and suddenly it worked as a charm! :D I´v only been wating for.. hmm 2-3 years for the big male to stop eating the eggs! well... his chanses has come to and end now and the smaller male is tha man in the house now :) Som blurry pictures, from this morning! :D :wav:




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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:38 am
by Edlund
Congrats Gugge! I hope they all survive :D

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:20 am
by andrewcoxon
those eggs look infertile to me but its still a very good sign! just a matter of time now buddy! keep it up :lol:

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:39 am
by gugge
It´s pretty strange then that they swim around ;)

I know how a infertile egg looks like ;) before they started to hacth they were bright yellow :)

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:42 am
by andrewcoxon
lol well an even bigger congratz then! :lol:

perhaps its just the photo but the eggs look pale and milky...

well done buddy :)

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:45 am
by gugge
a closeup just for u andrewcoxon ;) my kamera might distort the colors a bit, it´s ready to be run over by the car if you now that i mean...

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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:02 pm
by Jo's Zebs
Well done just shown size does'nt count for everything :lol: :lol:

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:36 pm
by John
Congrats gugge :aok:

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:15 pm
by Joby
Woohoo! congrats, you must have had the patience of a saint waiting for fry :roll: :)

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:21 pm
by TwoTankAmin
Congrats-

I know everybody has their own approach to things and that folks get results using different means. I have always felt that a spawning group/colony will yield better results than a pair or trio. It could be the fact that there is competition within a group or that spawning is "contagious". Perhaps once there are hormones in the water, they effect other fish. Whatever factors are involved, I have concluded that a colony is the way to go.

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:00 am
by gugge
Thanks!

In total it is 9 little ones in there now! I hope they grows well :)

I´m off to the petstore to buy some more frozen artemia so I can feed the parants some more and get ready to hatch som small artermia for the little ones, but the youlk sack should lats for a wile more so :)

TwoTankAdmin:
You might have a point here, in my case the females got accsess to an other male that probobly did his job better, the one before with no resoults has eaten all the eggs and is more fat then the females in their best condition ;)

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:27 pm
by Jo's Zebs
9 is great for a first time best of luck with them baby zebs are soooooo cute did you remove the nasty male or is he still in the tank.

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:40 pm
by gugge
He is still in the tank, for the moment I dont have an other aquarium to put him in, the little ones is placed in a small tank in the big one!

I don´t think i´m going to keep him, i have enough males as it is...

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:20 am
by gugge
Progress report!

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So far so good! :yahooscream:

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:13 pm
by John
gugge wrote:So far so good! :yahooscream:
Indeed, good luck on growing them out gugge and keep us updated :)