something I have never heard of till today
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How does the male still Mouth brooding more eggs look?. do you think the eggs are making good progress in his mouth?.
Well both eggs gone in the tumbler. I really think with the eggs from this fish that raising them in a tumbler might well nigh be impossible. The eggs felt like grapes when I moved them to the tumbler for an image of the consistency. I think the moving about in a plastic environment and bumping against a mesh screen caused micro cuts in the egg case. I did get the pics taken which I will put up though.
The male still seems to be holding, I can see this by two things. He is still doing the rapid mouth movement associated with my african females when they are holding, and, He is not taking any of the food I am putting in though both females are.
The one egg that survived the longest in the tumbler showed rapid reproduction in the white spot that was in the midst of both of the eggs. The second egg is still 60% inflated, so it might still be viable. I really have not got any idea as I have never used a tumbler before. Any of the fish I have stripped have had formed fry with egg sack attached and could be put in a floater.
So does the egg sack begin to deflate like this when the zygote attaches to the egg wall. I do know that in the lab they can actually pierce egg walls and the egg will survive this so I am hoping that the second egg makes it.
I will call it a miracle if the second egg turns into anything.
this is how the egg was before I repositioned the tumbler. I tried to get a close up of the white dot on the egg.
This is how the egg looks now and how I have repositioned the tumbler
The male still seems to be holding, I can see this by two things. He is still doing the rapid mouth movement associated with my african females when they are holding, and, He is not taking any of the food I am putting in though both females are.
The one egg that survived the longest in the tumbler showed rapid reproduction in the white spot that was in the midst of both of the eggs. The second egg is still 60% inflated, so it might still be viable. I really have not got any idea as I have never used a tumbler before. Any of the fish I have stripped have had formed fry with egg sack attached and could be put in a floater.
So does the egg sack begin to deflate like this when the zygote attaches to the egg wall. I do know that in the lab they can actually pierce egg walls and the egg will survive this so I am hoping that the second egg makes it.
I will call it a miracle if the second egg turns into anything.
this is how the egg was before I repositioned the tumbler. I tried to get a close up of the white dot on the egg.
This is how the egg looks now and how I have repositioned the tumbler
That is very possible.
Perhaps someone with more knowledge of biology could pipe in and offer some thoughts on whether or not the white thing has anything to do with fertility of the egg.
I will though be stripping the male of whatever he is holding a week and half from now.
I do know that with some of my other fish their first kick at doing the funky monkey did not turn out well. I also know that the next time around they got it right.
Perhaps someone with more knowledge of biology could pipe in and offer some thoughts on whether or not the white thing has anything to do with fertility of the egg.
I will though be stripping the male of whatever he is holding a week and half from now.
I do know that with some of my other fish their first kick at doing the funky monkey did not turn out well. I also know that the next time around they got it right.
you said that the female is about to dropp eggs again? Might want to consider stripping the rest of the eggs from the male, beefing him up so that when he goes on a rest from feeding to carry the next batch of eggs he will not parish from doing this back to back.
One other thing that I do have in mind though is this.
All of the other fish I moved to the 100g are doing good, the water checks out good.
So I just might actually transfer the male to that tank and put the other fish back into the 180g as I am not sure I will be able to get my 75g at home set up and ready in that time. If I can get my 75g up and ready I will most probably take the archers, mono and scat home.
Another tank I have here that I could put into action is my lungfish tank, it is a 100g. I just set up a 300g galvanized tub to make a pond in my back office area so I am sure gramps my wal would like that . Lots of options in terms of tank space. Or I might take my fronts out of the 140g tall and put them in the pond so that they can have lots of space to make more fronts as they are a money fish here in regina.
Sorry I missed your ? Red, the sharks are from 10-13 inches in length.
All of the other fish I moved to the 100g are doing good, the water checks out good.
So I just might actually transfer the male to that tank and put the other fish back into the 180g as I am not sure I will be able to get my 75g at home set up and ready in that time. If I can get my 75g up and ready I will most probably take the archers, mono and scat home.
Another tank I have here that I could put into action is my lungfish tank, it is a 100g. I just set up a 300g galvanized tub to make a pond in my back office area so I am sure gramps my wal would like that . Lots of options in terms of tank space. Or I might take my fronts out of the 140g tall and put them in the pond so that they can have lots of space to make more fronts as they are a money fish here in regina.
Sorry I missed your ? Red, the sharks are from 10-13 inches in length.
kevinfleming21;5011022; said:
Yeh I can agree with this. I am pretty sure it was the eggs being moved about to much in the tumbler and bouncing against the top screen that made them deflate.
If the female did not look to have eggs I would most definitely not strip the male tonight. Yet, she does so here goes.
Good luck stripping the eggs!!!!! have you considered putting the eggs in a net breeder in freshwater near the flow of the filter? (for some soft movement).
