Help Needed Urgently...EGGS...EGGS

[monty]

I'm glad blue "turned up"!

 

[DWhatley]

I'm glad blue "turned up"!

Me too!

 

[octopus9]

Day 14-15-16&17:

Tank looks good,

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egg development looks good, but i did not move any yet maybe in the next few days, the eggs have these red dots inside them and they are gaining some size as you can see in this pic

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Othee does not look good, as we are getting close to the hatching period , she is not moving a lot, not eating, mostly protecting the front eggs, i gave her this big crayfish 2 days ago but she did not touch it

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this is a video of the cray fish and you can see how othee cleans the eggs

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im still lowering tank temp and today we are at 77F , and will stop at 74F

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i opend tank cover and got the camera very close to othee, but i had to stop as she started moving, i was scared she get out of the tank or even attack me

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[octopus9]

Day 18-19-20:

As you all know we did not make any water changes since tank was setup , but only added water ,everything looks normal , next step is shutting down the filter , and reducing air bubbles in the tank..

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othee still does not look good to me , and i cant do anything about it

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the eggs are getting bigger, they are changing some color from clear white at the beginning to brownish white on the 20th day, i don't have much time left they are going to hatch soon so i was going to move some eggs yesterday from the front,to put in the emergency tank , but othee is stuck with them till today, and if she don't move soon we are in trouble...!!!

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this is a video of how the eggs look like today

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the emergency tank

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blue came out of his hiding place and he is hungry and looking for food

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[octopus9]

Day21: The biggining of the End...

ok first of all sorry about not updating , this is what happened after day 20:

I took alot of pic's&video for day 21 , which was my happy day because most of the eggs hached that day , i downloded all the pic's&video to my laptop , and left some video's on my phone to show friends..next day day 22 i was going to post but i had to travel to TX the next day for 5 days ,so i said i will post from there , when i reached TX my laptop got dameged , and i lost all my data , i was really upset , so i had to wait until i get a new laptop and then download what ever video's i have on my phone and post, today i got my new laptop , so im back to end this thread.

This is what happend on day 21...!!!!
my seahorse tank sold so i had to put blue in the 20g tank temp. untill the mother dies...
this is a video i took day 21, befor i remove the rear eggs ,i had blue in place also you can see the emergency tank.

main tank befor removing eggs+emergency tank.mp4

after that i removed the rear eggs slowly , now what i did is seperated the babys into 4 places , front eggs stayed in the 20g tank, some babys went into the emergency tank directly , some i kept in a small plastic housing , and some in a glass container , removing the eggs was not easy , othee was waching all the time and because of weakness i gess , she did not say a word,,,

this is a video of the first hatch , you can see the baby's swimming around.

removed eggs and haching.mp4

Now , because i had to travel the next day , i had afriend who was going to come and feed them , which did not have any experince regarding fish,feeding etc..., i had frozen mysis shrimp , baby brine , zooplex...the guy was feeding them every day 2 times only , now what happend is alot of them died i guss they needed more food , when i came back after 5 days there were more than 10 alive in the emergency tank only , all the rest died ,othee was still alive too, i started giving them more food every 3h , after 3 days i had 6 alive ,othee died that day which was really upsetting...after a couple of days all died.

it was 20-25 days that i had live baby octo's

this is another video of the baby's

more eggs.mp4

It was a really good experince , i learned alot from my mistakes ,it was not easy and as i said from the biggining "dont try this at home" and i have nothing else to say.

 

[DWhatley]

Great journal! Thank you for writing up the outcome in spite of all the computer problems (I am doing a long over due back up of my photos as I type )

Could you clarify a couple of timings for our log? It looks like the brood time was 22+ days, the most successful tank was the one with some algaes, water movement and 10 gallons of free swimming water. The longest lived babies lasted 8 days (10 surviving the 5 days you were gone, 6 surviving for 3 days after you returned and Othee died and 2 more days for the remainder)?

 

[octopus9]

Great journal! Thank you for writing up the outcome in spite of all the computer problems (I am doing a long over due back up of my photos as I type )

Could you clarify a couple of timings for our log? It looks like the brood time was 22+ days, the most successful tank was the one with some algaes, water movement and 10 gallons of free swimming water. The longest lived babies lasted 8 days (10 surviving the 5 days you were gone, 6 surviving for 3 days after you returned and Othee died and 2 more days for the remainder)?

thank you , and yes it was about 21-22 days and they hachted ,the ones lived more was in the emergency tank , which had algaes , water movment from one side only with 2 diffrent filters , and i say one side becasue what i did is i closed the area near the filter so babys cant go into the other side and get sucked , while i have good water movment , now they hachtd day 21 which was Sep.28 , after that everything was good 29,30, then we went to Oct. 1st , 2 , 3 , 4th the day i left to TX then we have 5,6,7,8th i came back , and had about 10-12 octo's alive then the 9,10,11th i had like 4-5 only swimming around , they lived the 12,13 and all died after , so its about 16 days only...

 

[MrED]

UPDATE?