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acei [message #8943] Mon, 03 March 2008 14:05 Go to next message
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my mother acei is holding again!!! yaaaahhooooooo..... just one bad thing i think my socofele (spelling) is holding also i think.... and another bad thing isss my 10 gal holding tank is in use with smaller cichlids... that are growing out to go in to the 75 gal tank.
Re: acei [message #8950] Mon, 03 March 2008 22:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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i think i have 2 fish holding at this point.....and i think another one is going to be holding soon..... my yellow kenyi keeps shimmying like crazy in front of its mate but that one doesnt look like its holding!!! this is one friskey tank at this moment and i dont have space or money for to buy more fish tanks....
Re: acei [message #8953] Tue, 04 March 2008 07:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ok trp, you have several options. First do you want mom to take care of the offspring or are you going to feed them?


You can buy a divider and divide the tank.


You can buy two or three of the little nurser boxes. They are plastic, have slits in them and they float. You can put your expecting mothers in the ten gallon with the other little fish. How little is the fish? You can either put the small fish in the nursing box and let the one of the mothers spit her babes out and then put them in a nursing box, and do that as each mother spits. After both mothers are done spitting you can put the little fish back into the 10 gal, but this would take time and the little fish may not like being couped up in such a small box.

You can let both mothers spit in to the community tank and let nature takes it's course.

Depending on the size of the fish you have in the ten gallon, you may be able to put them in the larger tank.

Sorry thats all I can think of without going out and buying another 5-10 gal tank.


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Re: acei [message #8958] Tue, 04 March 2008 10:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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i have two breeder holding tanks one has a air pump on it to pump air from the mom and it sucks the water to keep constent clear water to the mom and once she spits it will pull the babys in to a smaller holding area for them to keep from mom eating them then you just feed them there. im going to wait on the one mom tillshes about to bust and im going to get up really erly and get her when shes sleeping. the other mom i think i may try and catch her and make her spit due to there is no male in the tank that she can mate with.... and last night i seen on of my fish had a red spot on its side its half the size of a smile on here, my fish in the 75 gal are around 3 inch long.... and the new ones are around 1-1.5 inch problem is one is sick and i dont want it in the main tank yet and i can put them in there with the texas rock and they can hide in it but lately there has been some major fighting in the tank it needs cleaned and rearanged again and i need more rocks.
Re: acei [message #9091] Tue, 11 March 2008 12:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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now only my acei is holding i just got a light for my ten gallon set up its a indecent light set up but you can buy fluresent bulbs for them that are 10 w that are = to 50 watt of indecent lighting... so they say, it looks good im going to let it on over night tonight after i swap my smaller fish in the main tank. then im going to get moma acei and put her in the 2 or 3 days later, im going to get up really early and catch her and put her in the ten gallon. i plan on letting the light on for a few nights to get alae to bloom and grow for the babys once they come they can eat it!!! hopefully it works out.
Re: acei [message #9184] Sun, 16 March 2008 22:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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mommy acei spit tonight... looks like she ate a few i donno.... but there is many still alive!!!


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Re: acei [message #9192] Mon, 17 March 2008 09:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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grats pics a lil blurry but you can see them a little try and rezize it grats though


55 gal cichlid tank
30 gal hostpitle/fry tank
180 gal cichlid tank still in process of cleaning all stuff for it
Re: acei [message #9202] Tue, 18 March 2008 09:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I resized the pic but it's still blurry. Remember you have to crush the food up really well for them. You don't need that divider in the holding box. When you put the food in, you need to put your finger in as well and swish the food around a little bit so that it falls to them. You will have to clean that box out every other day or the food will turn to mold. The easiest way to do this and you have to be so careful when doing it is to gently move the box back and forth. slowly!!!!
So the babies don't get caught between the plastic bars of each side of the box. It can rip them in half if you are not careful. It's easier than taking the babies out each time you want to clean the box. If you gently move the box back and forth, the day old food will keep moving as you pull the box back. You will see what I am talking about. But even after doing that a few days, you will find that you still need to take the babies out in about a week to clean the box. But the older they are the better and safer it is to remove them from the box. I don't like to take babies this size out of water for any reason. I do what ever I can to make sure they are always coverd with water. NO netting from one place to another. Babies tend to stick to the inside of objects like a container when trying to move them by emptying the water out of containers and it's just not safe. So what ever you do to clean that box, just remember the safest way is to keep them covered with water at all times. Good luck and congrads.


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Re: acei [message #9210] Tue, 18 March 2008 11:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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i went out and got some food made for baby fish sinking granduals, and when i do clean the breeder box i use small foam pad on a stick and the fish usly swim away... and that devider i tryed taking it out last night... its stuck so im going try and get it out later today when im not so bizy... my gf works tonight so i can do that and im going to try and doo a water change on my main tank and a 10% on the ten gal my mom over feed the babys a little so i had to clean the box from that little to much food.... all i have to do is keep chems out of the tank.
Re: acei [message #9237] Wed, 19 March 2008 10:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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the baby fish are swiming strong. i left the light on for a few hours last night and they were going strong swiming from one end of the breeder tank to the other end of it.
Re: acei [message #9607] Thu, 24 April 2008 18:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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i think my acei is holding again she just spit in the tank like monday some day.... i caught a bunch out of the 75 gal tank. so i have a 10 gal tank with around 25 babys in it about 3/4 inch long. and a breeder tank holding around 14 that i got out of the 75 gal tank. i dont want her holding she hasnt had time to eat much she maybe ate for 7 days.... should i make her spit or let her go she seem to eat pretty hearty when she wasnt holding but shes about half the size of my male now and the 2 i added to to breed with the male are almost as big as her and darker in color i donno if they are male i hope not then i just wasted more money on male fish grrrr. for now on im going to buy them off line and only females grrrr.
Re: acei [message #9610] Sat, 26 April 2008 08:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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She will be fine after 7 days of eating.


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Re: acei [message #9612] Sat, 26 April 2008 11:20 Go to previous message
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she isnt holding i was pretty happy. i have no more room for fry and i want her to eat and get come color back shes vary dull looking. she also needs to grow up a little more so she can hold more fry in her mouth!!!!!!!!! for bigger batches.
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