My Breeding attempt - Perculas:
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melev
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You might as well try drilling a few more holes with the rest of the tank to see how it goes. You still have 4 more surfaces to play with.
And I've never seen a double clutch either. I'm surprised the new eggs were gone - I wonder if the male ate them to protect the others that were almost ready to hatch?
And I've never seen a double clutch either. I'm surprised the new eggs were gone - I wonder if the male ate them to protect the others that were almost ready to hatch?
dazed
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I did not know that, thanks for the information. Do you have any suggestions as to what i need to look at to get my clutches back on track? The last couple of attempts have all been complete losses by day 5 or so, this last batch was 12 days old & eating bbs & oto a and then gone, the water was slightly cloudy though so the last one may have been a bacteria bloom.
I am just a bit confused as i have raised some but lately been having some kind of hiccup in the process, i mean they are in tinted water & surrounded by rotifers with decent water quality but they just keep dropping off?
Might pay to shorten the photo period and drop the temps a bit to give them break for a month or so. Let them recuperate a bit, fatten them up, than bring the temps back up and the photo period back to summer and get them spawning again with some fresh vigor.
dazed
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I should have done some more practice on the broken tank but i tossed it and did my wc's on the larvae tanks instead.
I don't know if he ate them or not, but i think that they were knocked loose while he was fanning the ones that were ready to hatch. The reason i think that is what happened is because the area where the nests overlapped is where the new eggs were lost, i still have some of the (new) nest but only like 10% or so.
rkelman
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"I would rather have my grow out tanks packed full and looking real good like yours as compared to some pages on a thread."
You'll get there. I agree with Billsreef I think it may be a broodstock issue not a water issue. You could try some methylene blue in the water as a second suggestion. Although I've had bacterial problems in the stand alone tanks as they get older (3 months) I've never had any at the larvae stage. Its quite possible though. The bacteria I have is not necessarily the same as yours so it will in turn act differently. IMO..
You'll get there. I agree with Billsreef I think it may be a broodstock issue not a water issue. You could try some methylene blue in the water as a second suggestion. Although I've had bacterial problems in the stand alone tanks as they get older (3 months) I've never had any at the larvae stage. Its quite possible though. The bacteria I have is not necessarily the same as yours so it will in turn act differently. IMO..
dazed
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I have been thinking about what Bill mentioned and you guys might be on to something, My breeding pair is in my dt which has been having a hair algae and cyano issue lately, i have cut back on the feedings so maybe that's the link. I do try and target feed the female as best i can she comes right over and will eat out of my hand maybe she is missing something from her diet that she was getting before, I have thought of moving the perc's to their own tank which would allow me to feed them more but i like having them in the dt and so do my kids. My wife wanted me to switch the pair of perc's for my pair of GSM but i don't want to; my perc's are mellow the female gsm not so much, lol.
heap
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replace the parents in the display tank with some grown out babies. you'll get the mellowness of the percs, won't cost anything, and will have the added pride of having played midwife to some of your display tank's occupants.
it does end up making life a lot easier to have parents in a non-display tank setting, but like almost everything in this hobby...personal preference (and keeping those you live with happy enough to tolerate your hobby) has to be part of the equation.
dazed
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I had thought that i had skated around the issue by keeping my biggest offender a Naso tang at bay and pre-occupied with a piece of nori, while she comes over to the other side of the tank and eats at the surface perhaps i need to re-think on this issue.
Now that's an interesting idea. and yes keeping everyone happy is usually a good thing.
Very true statement isn't it.
dazed
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I was thinking some more last night about moving the pair into there own tank. Some questions; would it be better to move them when they have eggs on the tile? or wait until the clutch has hatched and then move them and hope that she lays in the new tank, or does it not really matter either way, and she is either going to continue with her normal routine or get spooked and possibly stop laying eggs for a bit.
Lifes A Beach
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I occassionally let a clutch hatch out in the parent tank and it seems that the next few clutches of eggs look somewhat bigger. I guess it has something to do with letting the parents get back to "nature" (which may also help if you move the parents to another tank). I agree with Bill, parent nutrition is very important so you can't skimp on their food. Maybe try feeding less but more often.
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