meesheelly Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 Well i have some killis in my community tank a while ago i thought i would stick a mop ijn coz a couple of the girls looked fat. I wasnt really expecting anything but today i checked the mop and i have 20 or so eggs. Only prob is that i dont know which pair they came from. I think the parents are most likely my dageti or my notho yellows coz they have been hanging around the mop. So the question is what do i do now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserole Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 They wont be your notho's as they don't have sticky or hooks to catch the mop not to mention there substate spawner not mop spawners :lol: they may be Epiplatus dageti there eggs are small. What other species do you have this may help ID the eggs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meesheelly Posted November 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 I also have gold gardeneri, gold australae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserole Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Well that could be a little problematic or IDing them. Well there not Notho's Epiplatus ( i think thats spelt wrong ) have very small eggs Fundulpanchax gardneri gold's eggs are around 1/2 a mm in diameter Aphyosemion australe eggs are in between the 2 The notho's may have been trying to get a free lunch The gardneri and australe are switch spawners - that is they are just as happy to spawn in mops as the gravel - sometimes it's easyer for the male on the gravel when he presses her. There probably E. dageti do the eggs look really small?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meesheelly Posted November 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 well i could see them so they wernt that small, maybe a mil in diameter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserole Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Hi A mm,umm you don't have killies that product that size eggs if they are killi eggs. have you tryed picking 1 up, if there killi eggs they will be hard and will not pop unless already dead. If you think there that big and are killi eggs then they must be gardneri eggs. Are you able to take a pic with the egg in a ruler?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meesheelly Posted November 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Yup i moved them so no problems there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoban Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Hmm.. Too bad yer not closer could ship me some and would let ya know what they were in a month or two heheheh Seriously Gratz on the eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 I'd go for them being gardneri at that size Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meesheelly Posted November 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 On another note. I was just having a look in my breeding tank, which has a hole lot of fighter babies in it and i noticed one that was different. It was larger a different shape and had stripes. It looks like a dageti fry? I had tried the dageti in there but i swaped them out in a few days coz my fighters were breeding in the community tank. Could i have a dageti baby in there? Or is it a mutant fighter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 Sounds like a mutant ninja dageti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaNut Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 I bet you they are degati. Throw the whole mop into a small seperate tank with an airstone and leave it for 10+ days. Every day lift the mops up and give them a little shake at the same time. You will see the degati fry easily. Cheers Aquanut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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