Jag pair breeding pics & ?'s about how to move eggs out.

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It finally happened after a week of courting, the eggs are being laid as we speak. I want to remove the slate that they laid on and probably the undergravel peice that the majority of the eggs ended up on. How should I go about doing this? Can the eggs leave water for a few seconds? Should I do it as soon as they're done?

Should the incubation tank have substrate? I'm going to use water from the parents tank to fill the 20g that they're going into. There will be a net around the filter intake. And a heater, and I'll match the temp, I think it's in the high 70's/ low 80's, is that ok? Should I add an air stone?

Please share any tips and/or experience that you have. This is my first serious breeding attempt, I've done guppies and con's in the past, but I just let nature take it's course for them...



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OR could I just put a divider in the tank to keep the parents away, I guess I don't know that they will eat them, but I've read that it is a possibility. Right now they seem to have finished laying, and they are fanning the eggs with their fins.
 
Take and fill a second tank with the same watter they were layed in. Match the watter temp. Use a net mov the parents away from the eggs and quickly grap the rocks they layed them on befor getting bit. Place directly in the new tank. The white fuzzy ones wont be fertle pick them out with tweezers. The opaque whiteish yellow ones will be fertle . Once they turn into wigglers and start to beginin hovering off the bottom feed them the baby fish powder food . They will be alittle canabalistic and kill off the weak ones as they grow. good luck grats
 
If I were you I just let them be until the eggs hatch and the fry are free swiming or grab the slate with the eggs on it and move them in the 20g, but you need light flowing water around the eggs. Just too let you know you'll probably lose alot of the fry to the substrate and undergravel filter, I had this problem with my jags. The fry are so small the wiggle down in the gravel then get stuck and die.
 
TeChris;1747232; said:
If I were you I just let them be until the eggs hatch and the fry are free swiming or grab the slate with the eggs on it and move them in the 20g, but you need light flowing water around the eggs. Just too let you know you'll probably lose alot of the fry to the substrate and undergravel filter, I had this problem with my jags. The fry are so small the wiggle down in the gravel then get stuck and die.
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i agree, just leave them be..turn off the ug filter...Congrats..let nature take its course..they will breed again and again and again...:WHOA:
 
My jags are in 800 gallons and they always spawn on the same side, so I usually chase them away from that spot and install a removable divider. Then I turn the filter off on that side of the tank and let them be until they hatch. Your temperature range is fine and the slate and substrate is fine; the weak fry will most likely get eaten, but the strong grow very fast and they will surprise you when you see how many are growing! Congrats and good luck!
 
cichlid_dude;1747321; said:
My jags are in 800 gallons and they always spawn on the same side, so I usually chase them away from that spot and install a removable divider. Then I turn the filter off on that side of the tank and let them be until they hatch. Your temperature range is fine and the slate and substrate is fine; the weak fry will most likely get eaten, but the strong grow very fast and they will surprise you when you see how many are growing! Congrats and good luck!
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BTW, once they hatch it is best to feed them using a syringe or something of that manner, as long as the water isn't rushing the food out of their reach then they should be ok!
 
the method i mentioned i used probly 20 times. Good luck
 
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