Phirefase Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Since I have found Cherry Barbs (Rohanella titteya formerly Puntius titteya) easy to breed in large numbers and pretty enough to offload easily, I want to do an experiment regarding when is the optimal time to move the eggs/fry from soft to hard water. I spawned them yesterday and gathered the eggs. I then split them into two groups, where group 1 is put in hard water before they hatch and group 2 is kept in soft water until they hatch. I will probably run this multiple times with cherry barbs as well as other species I have, but I am also curious if anyone has observed any difference in hatch rates with other egg scattering fish? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 I just obtained a young group of these. Definitely following you progress on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phirefase Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 Update on the spawn. 170 eggs counted in soft water, 48 fry counted. 140 eggs counted in hard water, 55 fry counted. Now to put an asterisk in this, I put the soft water ones in a specimen container for a day and had a bunch of eggs fungus over. Now I put the hard water ones directly from the spawning tank into the Deans Fry System I have. Since this was successful enough by just dumping them into the fry system, that is how I will raise them from now on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now