More for curiosities sake than anything, I've popped big mama in a little breeder box to see how many she gives birth to. I'm hoping I've done the right thing, she isn't ecstatic about it. Should birth tonight/tomorrow (it's been 4 weeks and 3 days now since her last drop - previous months its been 4w 1d & 4w 4d). The box strikes me as tiny though! You guys use these things successfully?
Trying out the breeder box
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stingrays4
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Hi personally I wouldn't use a breeding trap. I prefer to plant heavily with fine leave plants in one corner of the aquarium and let the young take there chances so to speak. It seems cruel because as you say they are tiny. If you want to rear on loads of fry your best choice would be to set up another aquarium and plant heavily,place the female in there for awhile and you should soon get loads of young and one happy female{not being chased by the male so much!}
Hmmm. Yeah, I've had huge success with fry in the main tank. It's heavily planted. I think as I said, it's curiosity more than anything. I get 10-15 survivors each batch, but I want to know how many she actually births. I'll put the thing away tomorrow. I don't like it one bit.
