4 moving eggs now Minxy I have put an "M" on yours in waterproof marker pen, it should come off eventually
(That is just a joke BTW If anyone thought I would draw on my fish)
Do all big pleccs eat cichlid eggs? I thought they were vegetarian. I was wondering why my convicts never bred. Maybe they do and my 8inch L001 plec eats all their Eggs!!!Poor little Jethro big sloppy thing he is, he has already eaten 3 batches of serv eggs that I know of, 4 batches of Ellioti eggs and a batch of firemouth eggs!, he is rather partial to eggs lol.
Do all big pleccs eat cichlid eggs? I thought they were vegetarian. I was wondering why my convicts never bred. Maybe they do and my 8inch L001 plec eats all their Eggs!!!Poor little Jethro big sloppy thing he is, he has already eaten 3 batches of serv eggs that I know of, 4 batches of Ellioti eggs and a batch of firemouth eggs!, he is rather partial to eggs lol.
Do all big pleccs eat cichlid eggs? I thought they were vegetarian. I was wondering why my convicts never bred. Maybe they do and my 8inch L001 plec eats all their Eggs!!!Poor little Jethro big sloppy thing he is, he has already eaten 3 batches of serv eggs that I know of, 4 batches of Ellioti eggs and a batch of firemouth eggs!, he is rather partial to eggs lol.
My guys do like some meat in their diet, wafer thin ham, prawn as well as the veggies, but if there are eggs they hoover them up. The L001 is also rather partial to some meat, I have just re-homed mine (splodge, he was such a sweetie, but found him a nice home in a 6ft tank) he loved prawn and more meatier foods, cichlid pellets etc, but drop a algae wafer in his tank and he would really sulk.
Ok this morning we have tails poking out of eggs wiggling away like the blazes. I have turned down the current on the filter, got a few white eggs to remove this morning, unfortunately it looks like I missed a white egg hidden in the crevis of the ornament and its gone fluffy taking about 20 eggs with it, but I couldnt sleep last night and tried counting the eggs, I got to 250 there abouts
Sorry Pikey I thought I had answered you. Not all eggs get fertilised by the male, these are the ones that turn white and can cause fungal infections if not removed. If you remove eggs to a nursing tank you should use an airstone to create the fanning affect from the parents, however I have tried this and it wasnt successful with removing Kribensis eggs. I have used an aquaball internal filter with a stocking over it, they have an inbuilt air nozzel so my eggs are being fanned by the current and recieving plenty of air, the filter is not directly pointed at the eggs it is circulating the tank first, the aquaball is great as you can turn the flow up and down and direct the nozzel anywhere in the tank without moving the filter itself. When hatching eggs by hand, you need to remove all the white eggs, you will continue to get white eggs throughout untill they have all hatched, not all make it, I am removing eggs every 4 hours, some are not fertile others just dont form. There is a chemical that some breeders use, it turns the water blue and supposedly stops eggs from getting any fungus on. Personally I dont really like this idea as nature is not allowed to kill off any weak developing fish and the majority of the batch survives. Hence me saying I have counted 250+ eggs and I am hoping that I may get 50 good strong healthy fish, but thats just my personal opinion.
I recon those that are going to hatch have now done so, roughly 80% are still attatched to the rock ornament the rest on in a pit in the gravel and I can see them wiggling away on the bottom of the tank, just waiting now for the rest to make the first free swimm away from the rock.