Longfins Spawning

Well, some of the long awaited longfins arrived and I put the females in with the pair we already had, but hadn't spawned for a few months. Well we got up this morning and there were eggs in the cave Unfortunately this male has a habit of kicking out the eggs, and so far has only kicked out half of them which are now in a fry net with meth blue and an airstone in an emergency tank. However, the others seem to be very well adhered to the cave and fingers crossed they stay in place

High Angi-N-Wayne , this may sound like a stupid question but have u tried tilting the back of the
cave into the substrate at about 35 degrees. I find this help over zeless male from fanning to hard
and booting eggs . Good to hear about the spawn though and especially long fins , u don't see many
of them in S.A and r pretty pricey when they do come up.
Cheers J

great tip kurosaki

also angi-n-dave will you be selling any of the fry plzzzzzzzzz

Oppsss, sorry i mean angi - wayne

congrats on the spawn and hope its goes well for you fingers crossed

"L Number mad wrote:

great tip kurosaki

also angi-n-dave will you be selling any of the fry plzzzzzzzzz

Dave?? Shhhhhhhhhhh, don't tell Wayne about him (he's sat behind me) LMAO

Yes, we will be selling the fry, and have some albino Longfins available and some sub adult brown longfins.

I'll post them in the for sale section

Kurosaki J wrote:

High Angi-N-Wayne , this may sound like a stupid question but have u tried tilting the back of the
cave into the substrate at about 35 degrees. I find this help over zeless male from fanning to hard
and booting eggs . Good to hear about the spawn though and especially long fins , u don't see many
of them in S.A and r pretty pricey when they do come up.
Cheers J

Thanks for that idea ............ sometimes the most obvious is the least thought of lol

No worries, when ever I can help.
Cheers J

Well done on the spawn and fingers crossed he wont kick the other eggs

Well last night both the eggs with the dad and the eggs he kicked out have hatched While he's out of the tank we've sneaked another male in with the lay-dees and see if he's gonna do the deed too

Angi-N-Wayne wrote:

Well last night both the eggs with the dad and the eggs he kicked out have hatched While he's out of the tank we've sneaked another male in with the lay-dees and see if he's gonna do the deed too

Fingers crossed the other male will have eggs soon then

fingers crossed

Well both lots of eggs hatched and are now officially free swimmers

Good on you Angi-N-Wayne , Congratulations. Are you going to let them grow out in the tank that
they are in or are you going to move them to their own grow out tank , if you are moving them ,a neat
trick I use is to load a biggish fish net with zuccini and just let them swim right in -no damage and no stress
Cheers J

Kurosaki J wrote:

Good on you Angi-N-Wayne , Congratulations. Are you going to let them grow out in the tank that
they are in or are you going to move them to their own grow out tank , if you are moving them ,a neat
trick I use is to load a biggish fish net with zuccini and just let them swim right in -no damage and no stress
Cheers J

We take the cave with the eggs and daddy in to a grown on tank before they hatch. When we want to move fish around or catch for selling, we use a similar method to you. Empty glass jars, a couple of spirulina wafers in the bottom and wait I try and feed them with wafers like this all the time so they see it as pretty normal behaviour. Then it's just reach in, grab the jar, and as they say, Bobs ya auntie

How did you know my auntie bob?
How big is your grow out tank? must be reasonablly big if you are getting a few spawns, a hell of a lot of my
fish go out to a friend of mines house ,he has no tanks under 4ft so they really dig growing out in these.
Cheers J

Kurosaki J wrote:

How did you know my auntie bob?
How big is your grow out tank? must be reasonablly big if you are getting a few spawns, a hell of a lot of my
fish go out to a friend of mines house ,he has no tanks under 4ft so they really dig growing out in these.
Cheers J

The initial grow tank is an 18x12x12 After a coupla weeks they get spread around other tanks ranging from 2 footers to 4 footers. I like to mix them up so that if there's a problem with a particular tank we don't loose all of the same type, and after having that happen last year <sniffle> it was a hard lesson learnt