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Re: Help-Trouble with A. australe eggs hatching!!!
Hello Burt,
Australe eggs will hatch when ready, as they are not an annual species, thus if you are not incubating them in water, the will die if they hatch (I don't know what Monty Lehman's method is) or you could try forcing the eggs to hatch if they appeared to have eyed-up put them in a small bottle and just walk around with it or add some quick decomposing food or micro-worms to the incubation tank, tranfer the fry after they hatch.
Hope this helps,
Eric
"by way of Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>" <owner-killietalk at aka_org> wrote: Looking for some help/advice- I have a 5-gal tank with 3 female and 2 male
australe. I've been getting good collections of eggs from the mop, up to 20
eggs after 2-3 days. I've been using Monty Lehman's method (re-published to
the list in an excellent note last year).
However, as they eye-up and get close to hatching, they start to
pre-maturally hatch...that is the tails will start poking out while the rest
of the fry is still inside the egg. After a few days like this, most of the
potential fry are dead!!! What might be causing this
phenomenon....temperature? age of parents? Any other water quality factors?
Any and all thoughts appreciated!!!
Burt Gorton
Penfield, NY
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