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Just in case anyone else finds this and wonders what happened, those eggs - or whatever they were - never did hatch. Not to worry though, there are about 100 wrigglers swimming about the tank as I type :)

I am having some success breeding zebra danios with a tank separator - the adults have plenty of room to move about, and fertilised eggs drop through to a safe area for them to hatch and grow. As I'm new to breeding egglayers I don't know how fast they grow, I am wondering at what age the...

I kinda thought that myself, but couldn't think of any other explanation for what they could be. They still hadn't hatched this morning, a couple of them looked a bit furry so I added a drop of methylene blue. About 10 seem to have turned darker, but I couldn't see any movement. Perhaps they...

Makes sense if it would yield more. I live near Liverpool, room temperature in my house is about 20C during daytime and 10C at night. Think I have an idea though, I could put the siphoned water in a plastic container floating in the community tank to keep temp at about 24C?

Thanks for the response. I'm surprised how tiny they are! I've got a gravel vac knocking around somewhere, and a suitable bucket, but I don't have a spare heater and it can get pretty cold at night here. Is there any particular reason why you wouldn't try to hatch these eggs, though?

I'm trying to breed some zebra danios for my mother in law's empty tank, and this morning I put 5 of mine in a large livebearer-type two-level breeding trap for a couple of hours around dawn. There are now some little white specks at the bottom of it that weren't there before, but as I'm new to...

I have a female swordtail that gives birth to 20-30 fry every 6 weeks, but I have had difficulty keeping many of them from getting eaten as mummy fish seems to be hungry throughout birthing and will ignore flake and daphnia to eat her own newborns. I've tried a net (about 10x6x6 inches) but had...

Just in case anybody happens upon this - these white marks were actually due to him burning himself on the heater! I've now moved the heater, the marks have now healed and he's doing fine...

The tank is 28 gallons according to a calculator I just found on the net. pH is around 7 and I haven't got the kit to test for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate (just moved house, not had chance to buy yet). No problems with any other fish. Nothing with particularly sharp edges, no more so than normal...

Hi, Since moving home recently my 6" featherfin catfish (synodontis eupterus) has had got some strange white blotches on his right side. I don't know if he's got agitated and cut himself against some rocks, but the marks seem to be getting worse not better. He's not eating normally and not...