malawi_man Posted May 25, 2005 Report Share Posted May 25, 2005 Last Saturday (21 may) my blue lumpheads (cyrtocara moorii) spawned for the 3rd time, the last two times she has spat out the eggs and all of the other fish have eaten them, but this time i managed to catch her at night time and put her in a holding tank without her spitting out the eggs. The next morning i decided to put some rocks in there to make her feel more secure but this was a bad move, she was scared by my hand being in the tank and spat out all of the eggs. I left the eggs there for an hour to see if she would pick them up, but she didn't so i got an eye dropper type thingy and picked up all of the eggs one by one and put them in a container with water from the tank and a drop or two of tonic. in the end i counted 65 or so. i got a piece of wire and attached the container to the side of the tank. then i put an air stone in there just to get some flow going and to imitate the females "churning" motion. i am doing 50% water change on the container twice a day just to keep the water fresh. the next day (25th may) i picked out one eggs that had gone from the normal tan colour to a faded green, this eggs may have been fertile or just got ruptured. this morning (26th may) i went out to the fishroom and discovered that all of the eggs had grown a small knob with two blck dots on it (little heads to any slow people :lol: ) and strangely one of the eggs must be developing faster than the rest because one of them has developed a tail where none of the others have so hopefully this time i will get a successful spawn of little blue lumpheads. i will keep you guys updated and i will try and get some pics but the camera (even in macro mode) wont focus on the container unless it is 30cm or so away :-? i will post again when all of them have grown tails. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livebearer_breeder Posted May 25, 2005 Report Share Posted May 25, 2005 Sounds interesting. Shae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi_man Posted May 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2005 :lol: 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserole Posted May 26, 2005 Report Share Posted May 26, 2005 lumpy dumpy do :lol: Cool kribkrazy shame you did not have a bantam hen to put them under Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi_man Posted May 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2005 lol stu :lol: btw i was suprised how fast heads and tails developed, last night they were just eggs but this morning they had eyes and now they all have heads and tails i picked out another fungused eggs this afternoon oh well still 62in there:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserole Posted May 26, 2005 Report Share Posted May 26, 2005 yeah it is really cool how fast they develop. I'm seeing the same thing in my b/n but there bigger eggs easyer to see . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi_man Posted May 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2005 lumphead eggs are like 2.5mm across. have you bred african before stu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserole Posted May 26, 2005 Report Share Posted May 26, 2005 not malawi's, just cat's , ass chiclids, tetras , suckers , ass minnows, ass livebeeders and KILLIES :lol: didn't think there eggs were that large :oops: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malawi_man Posted May 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2005 they are quite big Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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