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[Magnos]

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[Colin_T]

What's this about, I don't understand???

 

[Magnos]

It's about 7 egg tumblers

 

[GaryE]

Could you elaborate? I've used egg tumblers a lot, and made a few myself, but I'm not sure what you have there beyond something intriguing.

 

[Magnos]

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Could you elaborate? I've used egg tumblers a lot, and made a few myself, but I'm not sure what you have there beyond something intriguing.

Well i was having issues with fungus when I put the egg tumblers inside the tanks. And a lot of the tumblers stuck up too much above the tanks and It didn't work with my tank lids. So I set up all these tumblers for all my species of killifish in this drawer. I've had it running for 6 months1

 

[GaryE]

I use tumblers with lampeyes, but not with most killies.

Are these tumblers you made, or commercially produced ones?

Part of why I ask is the use of tumblers isn't common outside of the world of Malawi/Mbuna keeping. Part of what we do here is education and exchange, and you have something there that might be useful knowledge for many.

 

[Magnos]

Well I've had success with homemade tumblers but I just really like these ones lol. And I have 8 different species. Even for my dirt spawners once the eggs are ready I strain the eggs and then put them in the tumblers. I think it's something a lot of killi keepers do. I attached my homemade tumbler pics I11

 

[Magnos]

I use tumblers with lampeyes, but not with most killies.

Are these tumblers you made, or commercially produced ones?

Part of why I ask is the use of tumblers isn't common outside of the world of Malawi/Mbuna keeping. Part of what we do here is education and exchange, and you have something there that might be useful knowledge for many.

And the amount of eggs I get from certain species has been super light so I want to save every egg. A. Bivittatum and A. Australe have been giving me only like 1-3 eggs a week, while A. Volcanum have been giving me 5 a day. Fundulopanchax have never been an issue obviously lol

 

[GaryE]

Ah, I see now. I run an airline into all my egg incubation containers. I had stopped doing it for a while with everything but lampeyes, but I built a better set up for incubating eggs and have returned to my old system.
I was thinking Cichlid egg tumblers, where the eggs of mouthbrooders are in constant movement, rolling and tumbling and often not touching the substrate. I've used the 2 mbuna tumblers I have here with good results.
Eggs need oxygen.

I'm going to "borrow" that idea of a using a larger container of water.

 

[Magnos]

Ah, I see now. I run an airline into all my egg incubation containers. I had stopped doing it for a while with everything but lampeyes, but I built a better set up for incubating eggs and have returned to my old system.
I was thinking Cichlid egg tumblers, where the eggs of mouthbrooders are in constant movement, rolling and tumbling and often not touching the substrate. I've used the 2 mbuna tumblers I have here with good results.
Eggs need oxygen.

I'm going to "borrow" that idea of a using a larger container of water.

With the amount of different species I am trying it just makes sense. I think it's about 7 gallons. And above it i have another one with 4 breeder boxes and some cycled sponge filters. 11

 

[Magnos]

I breed a few species of apistogramma cichlids. I hate the space requirements of hard water cichlids

 

[GaryE]

I'm down to 11 killifish species, although I hope to add 3 or 4 this Spring. Back in the day, I bred a large number of Apistogramma, as they were easy for me to get, and new species were arriving at a great clip in the early part of the 2000s. I now focus on Central African dwarf Cichlids.