My Farlowella vittata just spawned, question!
Posted: 08 Apr 2003, 05:15
Hi all!
Anyone here ever bred Farlowella Vittata, or a similar species? Mine finally spawned after months of trying, course now they did it in a community tank with cories, guppies, and some apistos. Found Mr. Farlowella guarding a new clutch of eggs on the aquariium glass this morning, but by the afternoon he was no longer watching them. I quickly put together a hatching container with some methelyen blue, and attempted to razor blade the eggs from the glass like I do with my corydoras eggs. It was a disaster! They did not slide under the blade like cory eggs, they stuck and ripped! I think probably 3/4 of the eggs were broken, and believe me, I tried my best to get them off gently.
I now have a few hopefully unbroken eggs in a hatching container with the meth blue and an airstone gently bubbling fresh water across them. Any advice greatly appreciated! I will be moving the spawning colony to another tank in several weeks, but until then I suspect I will now find more eggs, probably on the glass. How do you get them off without breaking them? Do they get less sticky with age? I really want to save the next ones, I put some slates all around, but of course, Papa is avoiding them!
Thanks in advance, hope some of you here have worked with this species before!
Fishes
Anyone here ever bred Farlowella Vittata, or a similar species? Mine finally spawned after months of trying, course now they did it in a community tank with cories, guppies, and some apistos. Found Mr. Farlowella guarding a new clutch of eggs on the aquariium glass this morning, but by the afternoon he was no longer watching them. I quickly put together a hatching container with some methelyen blue, and attempted to razor blade the eggs from the glass like I do with my corydoras eggs. It was a disaster! They did not slide under the blade like cory eggs, they stuck and ripped! I think probably 3/4 of the eggs were broken, and believe me, I tried my best to get them off gently.
I now have a few hopefully unbroken eggs in a hatching container with the meth blue and an airstone gently bubbling fresh water across them. Any advice greatly appreciated! I will be moving the spawning colony to another tank in several weeks, but until then I suspect I will now find more eggs, probably on the glass. How do you get them off without breaking them? Do they get less sticky with age? I really want to save the next ones, I put some slates all around, but of course, Papa is avoiding them!
Thanks in advance, hope some of you here have worked with this species before!
Fishes