Need an opinion on Amphi breeding, please

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Miguel

Miguel

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Dec 28, 2006
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Very much south..
Not being an avid breeder, i let it happen when it happens.

A supposed midevil male turned out female and coupled with one of my bulls. I separated them, they dis their thing and babies are growing very well with their parents.

Now my issues are the following:

- keeping the babies with parents diminishes the breeding drive, right?
- if i take the babies out now, chances are the male will want to breed, and the female may not, ergo, he may kill her, right?
- if i take the parents out, and leave the babies in their place, would the female even so be in danger?
- should i take a couple of babies out and leave others with parents ( say 50/50), or can it lead to a reraction by the parents my taking some banies out?

- doing nothing will lead to the parents killing the offspring once the drive to breed starts again, right?
 
Not a one?
 
HA! You April Fooled me without even knowing it. I saw "Amphi" and "breeding" in the same title and thought you were breeding Amphipods!
<---== Amphipod Breeder here... (my kind are ~ skeleton 'shrimp')

.............carry on
 
I've had plenty of parents breed while the previous batch of fry was still in the tank. The older young eat the younger siblings once the they go free swimming for a few days the parents stopped defending them from their older offspring. The second and third sceanarios are a crap shoot IMO. The third option allows you to keep some fry no matter what and I've done this with no retrabution from the parents. Doing nothing lets the parents raise the fry and it may surprise how gentel they can be.

I would always have a place for the female to hide the male can't get into. Like we always say all fish have their own personalities and some are naturally better parendts then others. Some of this is simply trial and error.
 
I would probably opt to keep the babies with that parents until the parents stop defending them and then separate. I think you may have a better chance this way.
 
Thank you Tom. Am a very relative newcomer to breeding worries...:)

Allways kept fish that do not breed for you, and when i reentered CA' ( recently ) i opted for all male comms..


Nature fooled me into being a grandfather:)
 
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