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Old 03-19-2005, 05:06 PM
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Anthony,

You are going to have lots of etcs. as kudas usually have tons of fry. Seems to me the larger the SH, the smaller the fry and the greater numbers of them. I wouldn't be surprised if your male gives birth to a hundred or more. Broods get successively larger as the SHs mature. I have heard of kudas giving birth to two hundred fry.

The best way to make sure you catch all the fry is to set up a holding container for the male for his due date. Here's one I made out of Lego and tent screen (so water could flow through, but the fry couldn't escape)for my H. whitei when I had them:



Make sure the top of the container is higher than the water level of the tank. Here's the holding container with some macroalgae for hitching in the whitie's 28g:



You'll have to make your container higher than the one I made as whitei are about 1/4 of the body size of kuda.

Here's one of my pregnant whitei:



Fry bowls were set up as soon as I knew the male was pregnant. Did 50% water changes at least once a day to keep ammonia levels down. Fry are lots of work



Fry in one of the bowls:



H. whitei fry are big enough to eat newly hatched brine when they are born. Here's my brine hatchery. The bottles are for newly hatched BS and for BS that are over 24 hrs old for gut-loading with Selco. The four 3.5g tanks were for BS grow out for when the fry got larger. Unfortunately I did not have much luck with my fry:

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