Wetting notho eggs

[nonamethefish]

I have some N. kafuensis eggs which are due to hatch within 2 or so weeks. Haven't seen any eyed up eggs yet though. My question is how do you guys hatch them? The articles on killies.com seems to have skipped it(hopefully more to it than add water-get fish). When/do you guys bother removing, say, the peat that you've put in. How long do you leave the eggs before removing and rebagging the peat and any still clear eggs?

Thanks!

[TyroneGenade]

Hi,

Go see Brian Watter's article.

I would wet a portion of the peat, say 1 quarter, to see what the situation is like. If I get a good hatch (more free swimming fry than belly-sliders) then I would wet it all.

I generally wet the peat in the evening in a shallow dish and then in the morning spoon out the fry into a another dish with the same water. Then the baby brine shrimp feeding would begin. I don't like feeding brine shrimp over the peat as the brine shrimp dies and rots between the peat which would kill any other eggs.

I generally leave the peat with water for a few days as some fry may be late hatching. I've heard of a story where N. fuscotaeniatus took 2 weeks for the fry to hatch from the old peat!

The addition of an oxygen tablet seems to deter belly-sliders. Some peat extract may also help as does using cool water.

Just my opinion on how to go about it. It works for me but that doesn't mean it will work for you...

Regards

[CM Media]

Hi,

My practise is I'll usually wet the whole lot of eggs after I see that most of the eggs are eyeup. I do not follow the wetting date given by the breeder as this may be affected when the eggs are sent from overseas with different temperature.

I'll use a 15cm X 15cm container top up with water about 3-4cm high and dump the whole bag of peat in. Due to work commitment, I usually wet the eggs at night around 10pm. I'll leave the fry within the hatching tray for 24 hours before I started to collect them and raise in a separate raising tray.

It seems that the peat extract with the hatching container do helps the fry to stabilize and with lesser belly-slider problem. They fry after hatching can go without food for the first 2 days.

After 48 hours, I'll dry the peat for storage and wet them again in 2 - 3 weeks later.