Some help required for a weird for me but maybe common for some of you situation

[Pol Nadal]

Hi all,

just to prove that karma is a bi**h, today when i was cleaning my tanks and passing my 24-day free swimming fry of A. eremnopyge to a growing tank and planning to move my A. macmasteri pair o the breeding tank, they decided to lay eggs just 2 hours before all was ready in my communitary 300l tank:

6 rummy nose tetras , 9 cardinal tetras, 3 Bolivian rams, 3 A. abacaxis, 9 Corydora aeneus, 3 ancistrus, 4 discus.

That's why I curse karma, because they never did that before. Well the question is if I want to try to save this fry, when should i move it to the breeding tank?

If I move them now, they'll get fungi
I was hoping to move them in 2 days when they hatch but are still attached to the stone.
Should then I move also the mother, or with all the stress she will forget they are hers??

thanks for any help guys, i really appreciate and i am sure that you have encountered similar problems before.

have a nice weekend

Pol

 

[Mike Wise]

Personally, I rarely have any luck moving egg or newly freeswimming fry. Others have, however. The easiest time is the first few days they're freeswimming, when they are all close together near their mother. Otherwise, just forget the eggs. Move the adult macs to the breeding tank and let the eggs in the community tank become fish food.

 

[Apistomaster]

You have nothing to lose by trying to artificially hatch eggs.
A one gallon container of water from the breeding tank, enough methylene blue to stain the water deep blue and air stone mildly bubbling is all it takes.
Sometimes the outcome can be surprisingly good.

 

[Pol Nadal]

Thanks again Mike, and Apistomaster,

I will give a try to my "plan B" to move the fry right after hatching. I know that this thread has been widely discussed, not just in dwarf cichlids but I feel from the posts I've read in a spanish and a portuguese forum that most people have no idea what to do when this occurs, I've heard the methylene blue approach and also the air stone one, with both good and bad results, let's hope I can try soon but right now I have no methylene blue.
Also interesting the point of taking water from the aquarium where they spawned, makes sense to me but i also thought that adding the fry very careful to the "right water conditions" in the breeding tank could be a better approach, now i have to think which one to choose, unless the low pH + low hardness is only important at the sperm/egg penetration part.

greets and thanks again,

Pol

 

[Pol Nadal]

Hi,

as predicted, the eggs just vanished, I am pretty sure that the female ate them. Now I placed the pair in the breeding tank, let's hope for the best!!

thanks

Pol