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Old 03-18-2008, 09:06 PM
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I went to strip the male yesterday at 24 days holding the eggs, and they are still eggs! Ooops! They are almost fully developed, but definately still in the egg. Luckily he didn't spit them all out when I opened his mouth to take a peek, but one egg did come out.

I put the one stray egg into a net and just let it sit propped on the edge of my display tank. This morning the egg was gone, so someone must have sucked it through the net.

This time I'm going to put the breeding net right into my display tank, and try raising them in there instead of that 10g tank. Hopefully it will work better.

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So on Jan 7th I stripped the male of the fry. He had been carrying them for approximately 25 days last time. I didn't have an egg tumbler, so I had to wait for them to hatch in his mouth before stripping him.
Hmmm, ya so I guess he was carrying the eggs for longer than 25 days last time...
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