My fish had another round of babies again, this time 22 of them, over the
weekend I made another batch of dehydrated eggs, 18 eggs all up, it filled 2
jars. Its 2 weeks now since they were born and they are now 8mm long, nose
to tail.


"skozzy" wrote in message
u...
The fouling of the water is the moisture content of the egg, that is why
you
need to dry it out. I have been doing this for a while with other fish,
including my salt water for the adult fish. Once the egg has been dried
enough (not 100% dry) you can crush it into a powder. Once dry the egg
keep
well in an air tight container for months. As for feeding, I have a small
plastic spoon with a cup size around 2mm, I put in one spoon of the dried
egg.

The other thing I used to do years ago with other fry was to put milk,
wheat
based breakfast cerial and a few drops of yogert (live strain) in a flat
container, lay a few ice block sticks over the top and put the lid on and
left it sit for a week. Small worms would grow and you would see them on
the
sticks, I would then wash the stick in the tank and the fish would love
it.
I haven't used this method for year as the smell of the decaying cerial
and
milk would make me sick.

It depends on the fish, yellow labs, haps and bumblebees I've bred held
for
2-3 weeks, but brownae's and sp.44 about a week and a half. The
dehydrator
is a great idea, I've done the boiled egg in a cheesecloth, but it
fouled
the water so bad, I never did it again.