Second successive Inka spawn fuzzy?

[Borelliiguy]

So far my female has laid over 180 eggs during two spawns and right now the latest b atch are in the process of turning from red to pink. I'm wondering what the issue is here? Is the male refusing to spwan with her? They get along fine and I've seen him flare at her on occasion but I've never seen him spawn with her only noticing the eggs are in the tank via the females carany coloring.

Any ideas and suggestions? The entire batch is fuzzy? Am I doing something wrong here?

 

[regani]

What's your water like? For some species you get really poor hatch rates in harder/higher conductivity water. Not sure how sensitive beanschi are. I keep mine at 1-2GH, 0 KH and about 180ppm and they and the fry seem to do fine

 

[Mike Wise]

Regani is probably right - water values. Males, even young males, rarely 'shoot blanks'.

 

[Borelliiguy]

Ok guys it looks like I'm going to have to change tact on this one.

I have just spent the past 3 hours watching apisto eggs hatch. Absolutely amazing experience so much so I didn't see the time wiz by. But there is both good news and foul news here. The female assassinated all but one. I went down to check on the eggs and figured they weren't going to hatch but noticed one "move." at first I thought it was the current in the tank but the more I stared the more I saw move. The female would either wait for the fry to slip out of the sack or if the egg moved too much, she ate it. Today is day 4 of them being spawned so I knew that if any were fertilized then they'd have hatched today.

I'm pleased the male is not shooting blanks and also pleased that my water isn''t the problem but now I need info on artificial hatching. Particularly what chemical to add and how many ml's per liter of said chemical to add. I think it's methane blue but I'm not sure... Also flow/current/filtration while they incubate.

Of the spawn I currently have just a few eggs left. I decided to save the remaining few which are now in a 10gal backup tank. They are moving from left to right every few minutes or so so, I am not going to worry about treating the tank/this spawn with anything although I have put an almond leaf in. Here's a pic. Notice the white membranes left behind.

 

[Mike Wise]

This is something that I have never done. I usually let the female practice a few times. She usually gets it right, eventually. Others use techniques similar to that used to artificially raise Rams or angelfish.