Need Advice On Blue Ram Spawn

[10g]

My rams have been spawning recently. This is the 3rd time in the past 6 weeks. Sadly, the first two were unsuccessful. This time, I , therefore, decide to separate the eggs into a breeding tub hanging inside the tank.

Can someone tell me how to remove the egg safely? i don't want the eggs to be hurt in the process.

thanks !

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[10g]

I have managed to get the eggs into my breeder, lost about 10-20% of the eggs in the process tho. I brushed off the eggs using a soft nylon brush. Some were scattered into the forest. ( My tank is very heavily planted.) Some were in places sheltered by my rocks. Some were left untouched. The parents, especialy the female, had made a really good fight.

I, then, siphoned the eggs into a temporary container before transferring them back into the breeder in the original tank. The temp is now raised to 83 F (originally 80). Hope some of them make it to adult-hood.

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p.s. i also would like to thank my LFS who gave me LiquiFry food for free.

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2 big 3 small Ferns + 2 Anubius both on separate pieces of drift woods+ 2 bronze Wendi(8 inches) 3 small green Wendi + 2 Aponegetons Natan + Borneo Sword+ 1 bunch of stringy plant i forget how to call it+ Java moss all over the drift wood+ 2 small plants i have no idea what they are.. All in a single 10 G tank !!

 

[juanveldez]

the hardest part is going to be keeping a constant flow of water over the eggs. the parents would normally complete this by fanning the eggs. secondly I highly suggest that people don't rush their cichlids. it often takes a pair multiple tries before they get everything right and removing the eggs only reinforces that imo. where as by leaving the eggs they will more often than not get it right eventually. now if you were breeding them for commercial sale and it was their 7th or 8th batch removing the eggs would be advised but not on the 3rd.

 

[10g]

Thx Juan..

I would have let the parents keep their egg if there hadn't been 9 other fish/shrims in the same tank. The parents would be overwhelmed by the tank mates. I have 3 guarami, 3 neons, 1 siamese algae eater, and 2 japanese shrims. I know I have smashed the rule of thumb ( 1 inch of fish / 1 gal) by the factor of 3. But, the fish are very happy and active. I think the reason is my tank is very heavily planted which greatly help the ecological system.


So excited.. I have a lot of experience in breeding fish at home. But I always let the parent do the job. Now, i am at school. I have only set up a 10 G tank.(A bigger one will be a burden when i change apartment.) This is the first time i "actually" breed cichlids. In the past two days, I was looking after the eggs very closely. I use an eye droper to blow water through the eggs, remove the dead ones, and clean the good ones.


The eggs is now hatched. However, only 30% of the eggs survive. The rest were lost due to fungus. The parents could have done a better job faning the egg than me. =( But as i said the tankmates would eat the fry if i hadn't isolate them. I start feeding the fry with Liquifry now.

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[Siamese Fighter05]

Leaving a airstone under the eggs is a really good way of stopping your eggs from fungusizing, give tha a try next time they spawn for you.
Goodluck with the fry that survived!

 

[BLASK]

sorry for interupting/hijacking, but i have a pair in my tank and 6 tetras in my tank and they keep spawning. the eggs never hatched. i dunno if this was the pair or the tetras but i had tinnnnnnny fry. almost like baby brine shrimp, well maybe like 3 baby brine shrimp. anyway they wouldnt fit in my net so I had to suck em up with a new gravy baster. I then put them in my 1gal tank with java moss and air bubbler. They all died within the following 3 days. I did not have a filter but I did think that my partial water changing and sucking up crap routine would have sufficed. I did feed them liquifry made by wardley, but I think they just got killed by crappy water?

oh ya and I forgto to say that both the pair and tetras were hunting down the poor babies in the main tank before I had a chance to get them. I must have seen like 50+ of them and I only could save 11, and those 11 died.

i could not tell if it was tiny rams or glowlight tetras

 

[10g]

i am not sure, blask.

Did you use the water from the tank? Changing in water chemistry can also be stressful to rams, esp babies.