Re: [Killietalk] Tissue Culture plates for incubating eggs

[George Slusarczuk <yurko at warwick_net>]

Hello Christine,

I was looking for a good tray/vessel/dish to incubate eggs. After many 
tries, i settled on a "Tissue Culture multi-well plate" with 24 flat 
bottom wells (1.7 x 1.6 cm).

They can be purchased in laboratory stores. This particular well plate 
is produced by Flow Laboratories, McLean, Va.

I place 1 egg into each plate well. Sometimes two eggs into 1 well.
When the fry hatch, they are easily transferred to 2.0 cm high Petri 
dishes, and from there they go into grow-out containers.

Best,

George


On Aug 11, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Christine wrote:

> I'm wondering about the different ways people store the eggs that are 
> being
> water incubated.
>
> I had what I *thought* was a great idea.  I bought one of those plastic
> drawer organizers that is made to hold doo-dads such as screws and 
> nails.
> It's made by Stack-On and has 60 drawers in it.  Well upon getting it 
> home
> and opening it, I found every drawer has a small pinhole in the bottom 
> of it
> (I assume for drainage). I love the thought of having the eggs all 
> organized
> and labelled in easy to change drawers in a very small amount of 
> space.  I
> was thinking about plugging the holes with a tiny bit of safe epoxy 
> but Im
> not sure if that would make it too difficult to clean the drawers well.
> Does anyone use these?  Is there another brand that perhaps doesn't 
> have the
> holes in the drawers?  I saw a few other brands online but I'm not
> comfortable ordering them only to find they too have holes and then I 
> have
> no way of returning it without paying for shipping it back.  I emailed 
> some
> customer service departments Monday but I haven't received a single 
> answer
> back from any of them yet.
>
> I saw one person mention that they kept the eggs in the take-out sauce 
> type
> containers on a tray in a rack.  Thats a great idea but I don't have 
> enough
> space or need at the moment for something quite that large as I have 
> only 3
> pairs of killies (for now!).
>
> So, what do you do with yours?
>
> Christine Pirtle
>
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