Help !!!
- Thread starter Larryfish
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Are you 100% sure you have a pair. If you have a pair the male should be a lot bigger. We have 2 Melnuras both females but they spawn together and eventually the eggs all turn white. Let these 2 spawn again maybe next time they will hatch if a pair.
At times the eggs hatch with 24 hours, and the parents hide the fry, you probably will not see the fry for a few days. During this time the egg shell the fry have hatched from, will turn white and fungus over. At this point the fry are wrigglers and are feeding from a yolk sac, so you do not need to feed, they can be in this wriggler stage for few days.
Once they are free swimming,(this is the next time you see them) they will need to feed.
Newly hatched artemia (brine shrimp) are a good first food, as is any algae in the tank.
Don't rummage around in the tank looking for fry, this will scare the parents into eating the fry.
here are some wrigglers, they are almost transparent, very hard to see.
below newly free swimming fry
at the free swimming stage it is best to give them many small meals per day.
You can pulverize pellets, flake, or thawed peas and shoot them into the school of free swimmers with a turkey baster or pipet to get food to them.
I usually mix pulverized for with a little tank
I start hatching artemia about a day after I notice the eggs have hatched
Once they are free swimming,(this is the next time you see them) they will need to feed.
Newly hatched artemia (brine shrimp) are a good first food, as is any algae in the tank.
Don't rummage around in the tank looking for fry, this will scare the parents into eating the fry.
here are some wrigglers, they are almost transparent, very hard to see.
below newly free swimming fry
at the free swimming stage it is best to give them many small meals per day.
You can pulverize pellets, flake, or thawed peas and shoot them into the school of free swimmers with a turkey baster or pipet to get food to them.
I usually mix pulverized for with a little tank
I start hatching artemia about a day after I notice the eggs have hatched
Well I actually bought them as a proven breeding pair. So they have bred in the past. I think the female might have laid the eggs to far away from the eggcrate. And the male couldn't fertilize them. Thank everybody for all of the help.
If you have the tank divided, it is a good idea to put a flat stone right next to the divider on the females side. And if possible have the water current in the tank run from males side over to the females side.
I always drill my tanks so the overflow to the sump is on one end, and water is pumped in on the other end.
If it was a mated (compatible) pair, just curious why they were divided?
above, female putting down eggs on the right side of the divider, below male fertilizing on the left.
I always drill my tanks so the overflow to the sump is on one end, and water is pumped in on the other end.
If it was a mated (compatible) pair, just curious why they were divided?
above, female putting down eggs on the right side of the divider, below male fertilizing on the left.
