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They were normal colored when I moved them to the hatchery tank (24 hours after they were laid), but 2 turned white a few hours after and some more have turned white overnight. I thought that means that they were fungused rather than unfertilized. They were all the same colour as the first...
Some of the eggs are turning white despite adding methylene blue in accordance with the instructions on the bottle :( I've added more this morning to get a deeper blue, but haven't dared to add enough to make the water so dark that the eggs are barely visible like some Google results have suggested
Leaving the lights on helped abit but ultimately not good enough as the eggs/wrigglers still got eaten, just a few days later. The tanks are all at about waist/chest height in a dedicated fish room so there's only movement in the room three times a day - once to hatch brine shrimp (I keep 2...
One thing to keep in mind is that Channa in general are not easy to pair up. Channa bleheri is generally less aggressive than many other species of Channa, but just putting a male and a female together doesn't guarantee that they will pair up. When I kept this species previously, I had to buy...
Thank you for your advice. It's just frustrating that all 3 breeding pairs ate their eggs on day 4-5 (twice for one pair) :confused:
Both parents seem to be guarding the eggs and the male is not harassing the female, so I don't think the male is the issue - trying to catch the male may cause...
The last spawn got eaten again, and another pair laid a new batch of eggs last night. My wife now wants me to separate the eggs from the parents and artificially hatch them in another tank. Can anyone guide me on how to do this? I'm planning on setting up a new bare bottom tank that I usually...
Slightly off tangent question here, but does the monogamy give the male greater parental instincts than typical polygamous apistos? I have noticed my A rositae male helping to guard the fry and he has not been harassing the female to breed even a couple of weeks after the fry hatched. As of...
Thank you, it's really hard to get wildcaught dwarf cichlids here in Singapore due to the small population and market size making importers not want to bring them in. I usually make an annual trip to Hong Kong to get whatever is available at the time I'm there (a small fraction of what they get...
The 3rd pair ended up eating the wrigglers on the day they hatched. Fast forward a week and the 1st pair has laid eggs again. Wonder how many tries they will take to be successful. So far only the 4th pair hasn't spawned yet.
In other news, I have fry from my Apistogramma rositae pair, and a...
The second breeding pair has also eaten the eggs/wrigglers. The female was still guarding the pot this morning (day 5 or 6 I think) so I believe the eggs should have hatched but the wrigglers were eaten this afternoon
The first batch of eggs didn't make it, but another of my pairs has laid eggs. This pair is a younger female with one of my original males (my first group had 3m2f, and this male was the leftover one that I paired with a female from a much later shipment). Guess I have to keep the bbs factory...
The female is no longer guarding the secluded area 24/7 like she did when the eggs first disappeared, though she still disappears there every now and then to check the area out. I thought the fry become free swimming after 8-9 days though, so I assume that they're gone by now since I see no...
Yes, I have 20 tanks on my 2 racks. Not all are empty but I can fit 2-3 "pairs" of this species.
The line of sight breaks aren't just the leaves, but also various flowerpots and apistogramma caves that are firmly on the substrate. The plants are planted in an actual flowerpot filled with soil...
Unfortunately my tanks aren't big enough, they're about 15 gallons each. I have a couple slightly larger 20 gallon ones on the racks but those are currently occupied. That's why I split my dwarf cichlids into "pairs" - one "pair" in each tank with 2 small flowerpots and 1 terracotta cave, leaf...