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Great news Jim!..made up to hear it..have enjoyed reading your new adventure from when you were choosing tank to purchase of rays etc,watching them grow
and so on,so nice to hear you are at the point of your first breeding now and wish you great luck with there arrival and cant wait to see them!
and so on,so nice to hear you are at the point of your first breeding now and wish you great luck with there arrival and cant wait to see them!
Hey Giles, good to hear from you!
Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure what to do now though as i am baffled as to when she could have been bred. It's only been one month max since the male left her alone and she started eating again after nearly one month of starvation.. I would have thought it would take longer than 4 weeks to start seeing pup movement, or am i wrong? how long into the pregnancy would you start seeing movement?
I guess she must be more than one month pregnant?
Also the male is still paying a fair bit of attention to her and she is not healing fully from her battle wounds. I am thinking i should seperate her now but don't want to seperate too soon as thet hate being seperated, tried it before and she got out from behind the divider twice. I can make the divider more robust but don't want to seperate unless i really have to because once seperated she will have to stay that way until she pops.
But on the other hand i am thinking if i seperate now maybe the male will turn his attention back to the Pearl which is the ray i thought was pregnant in the first place! Lol, funny old game.
What do you think mate?
Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure what to do now though as i am baffled as to when she could have been bred. It's only been one month max since the male left her alone and she started eating again after nearly one month of starvation.. I would have thought it would take longer than 4 weeks to start seeing pup movement, or am i wrong? how long into the pregnancy would you start seeing movement?
I guess she must be more than one month pregnant?
Also the male is still paying a fair bit of attention to her and she is not healing fully from her battle wounds. I am thinking i should seperate her now but don't want to seperate too soon as thet hate being seperated, tried it before and she got out from behind the divider twice. I can make the divider more robust but don't want to seperate unless i really have to because once seperated she will have to stay that way until she pops.
But on the other hand i am thinking if i seperate now maybe the male will turn his attention back to the Pearl which is the ray i thought was pregnant in the first place! Lol, funny old game.
What do you think mate?
Great news Jim!..made up to hear it..have enjoyed reading your new adventure from when you were choosing tank to purchase of rays etc,watching them grow
and so on,so nice to hear you are at the point of your first breeding now and wish you great luck with there arrival and cant wait to see them!
You usually start seeing movement at the half way point. Gestation is between 3 and 4 months
I would deff separate. Its not worth loosing the pups. If the male decides to pick on her heavy one night thats all it takes and she could abort the pups early. Also if she is stress free she will hold the pups full term and they will be born fat and healthy.
I never keep males with my prego females. I did it once and lost the pups was very sad
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I would deff separate. Its not worth loosing the pups. If the male decides to pick on her heavy one night thats all it takes and she could abort the pups early. Also if she is stress free she will hold the pups full term and they will be born fat and healthy.
I never keep males with my prego females. I did it once and lost the pups was very sad
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Hi Trev
I been thinking about what you said a while back and the fact that you lost some pups prematurely due the female being stressed and this plays on my mind hence me asking Giles for his opinion also. I don't want her stressed obviously and the more i think about it the more i am leaning toward seperating her. Now you post on the same topic again i feel i should probably seperate her tonight.
Thanks for confirming about when to expect to see movement, i guessed it would be more than 4 weeks. It's weird though as it does not fit with all the things that have been going on in the tank over the past couple of months. This means she was already pregnant, not eating and still getting beaten up when she was probably already 2 weeks pregnant. Poor girl!!
I been thinking about what you said a while back and the fact that you lost some pups prematurely due the female being stressed and this plays on my mind hence me asking Giles for his opinion also. I don't want her stressed obviously and the more i think about it the more i am leaning toward seperating her. Now you post on the same topic again i feel i should probably seperate her tonight.
Thanks for confirming about when to expect to see movement, i guessed it would be more than 4 weeks. It's weird though as it does not fit with all the things that have been going on in the tank over the past couple of months. This means she was already pregnant, not eating and still getting beaten up when she was probably already 2 weeks pregnant. Poor girl!!
Alot of times a male will try to breed a female multiple times which is just added stress if she is already prego
When my female lost her litter, the male wasnt even picking on her very bad so i left them together (bad idea) then all in a sudden one night he must have got very aggressive and she aborted
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When my female lost her litter, the male wasnt even picking on her very bad so i left them together (bad idea) then all in a sudden one night he must have got very aggressive and she aborted
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