Post by mikevxr on Jun 29, 2018 15:55:00 GMT -5
I must admit I never strip my females as i prefer letting them hold and spit naturally. If there is a certain female I want young from then I leave the holding female in main tank until day 28-30 at that point I use a net and small tub to coax female into then I move her to a seperate tank on her own with a small filter and a few caves - if she lets any fry out they are fully formed and she will take them back in. My females spit around day 32-34 but I leave female with her fry for a further 7-10 days to allow her to recover and start feeding back up. Thereafter I reintroduce her to main tank in late evening with lights out combining it with tank cleaning .
Raising fry in a separate grow out tank always results in faster growth rates for me - leaving them in main tank does not produce same growth rate as they are competing with adults for food.
With young females and males they seem to take a couple of goes to get things right for me young male fish seem to have problems fertilising eggs and it is common with my females to eat their eggs around day 3-5 even when using older males with young females it seems to take them a while to get it right But if I leave them alone then they usually hold full term by their third attempt. Just my own observations.
Raising fry in a separate grow out tank always results in faster growth rates for me - leaving them in main tank does not produce same growth rate as they are competing with adults for food.
With young females and males they seem to take a couple of goes to get things right for me young male fish seem to have problems fertilising eggs and it is common with my females to eat their eggs around day 3-5 even when using older males with young females it seems to take them a while to get it right But if I leave them alone then they usually hold full term by their third attempt. Just my own observations.