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Update- Wiggle it! 24 hours after the first eggs hatched… 125 eggs to start -24 infertile -7 dead fry (3 crooked spines, 3 unknown, 1 failed to get loose from the egg shell) 50 eggs left to hatch, and I could sit there watching them all night. I’ve got them in a specimen 1/2 gallon box...

The mods should make this a sticky! I wasn’t able to reply directly to the thread because it said it was 184 days old, but it should definitely be pinned to the top. Such excellent advice. All of us should be reminded of this no matter where we are on our fish keeping journey. Great...

Thank you so much for this additional information. These are excellent tips. Eggs are hatching already tonight and I expect nearly all will be wiggling around in the morning. I am following your advice and have mixed more tap water into the RO for the fry. Once I have acclimated them slowly to...

You are just a fountain of incredibly useful information! I am grateful, truly. 6 fry hatched so far tonight. I haven’t lost and eggs over the last 24 hours, so could be 100 wigglers in the morning! I have the eggs and wigglers in a container floating in the aquarium. It has about 1/2 RO...

Thanks for these tips. I will try IAL with the fry to reduce bacteria. I have some in the main tank too. A few of the juveniles are nearly parent sized, so perhaps there will be a few more males in the mix. Should I allow a male offspring to fertilize its mother’s eggs? Would Darwin frown...

Thank you! A few videos on YouTube suggested the mulm to help the fry during the first week. I thought they ate the bacteria and Infusoria that lived in the mulm. If it’s not necessary, I’ll skip it. Are vinegar eels and Microworms very different in terms of nutritional value? I have vinegar...

This advice is invaluable! Thank you! I’ve read the link you provided as well. Fantastic information. I have been googling nightly in my search for information, posting questions to forums, and generally coming up with few specifics. I have additional questions… 1. Is the hang-on breeder box...

Hi everyone, I’ve got a VERY prolific mating pair who started laying eggs about five months ago. They now lay about 120 eggs in each spawn, and spawn about every 4-8 days. You probably think I’m overrun with catfish babies. I should be, but sadly only a few of the thousand plus eggs have...