Thanks Luke. But after destroying the tank and only catching 1 fish after about 10 minutes, I gave up and left them in there. Any fry, if any, would have been eaten. :evil:

Will have to devise a better setup.....

I have 1 Rummy fry :lol: I think the other eggs got eaten prior to hatching due to my poor setup.... :roll:

Alanmin4304, where do you source the stainless steel mesh?

i thought this was a great idea for catching tetras

http://www.youtube.com/user/pondguru#p/c/2D314B22D809B66A/5/LuA97UniMd8

i thought this was a great idea for catching tetras

http://www.youtube.com/user/pondguru#p/c/2D314B22D809B66A/5/LuA97UniMd8/quote:10g1f8vy

That's brilliant!

Get a decent school, feed them till you can tell which are females and which are males, you'll be able to tell because the girls will get heavier with eggs. seperate females and feed up for another two weeks, live food preferably. Have a small spare tank that has cycled water and a little bubbler in it. bare bottom with a layer of marbles, top that off with a layer of moss or christmas moss. Add the fish to this tank and leave them in there for upto 3 days, don't feed them too much during this point, you don't want to foul the little tank. Remove fish to recover, i leave a towel over the tanks for another day, keeping it dark, liquifry for the first two days then straight onto BBS. You should get hundreds! very easy to do this once a month once you have a setup. Also the moss produces micro bacteria and such for the fry to feed on

Thanks Livebearer . I am currently conditioning my females, although 1 is in confinement after it suffered an injury (possibly while I was trying to catch her) but appears to be healing well.

Can you tell me what the usual amount of egg produced from 1 female in a single spawning? Thanks.