Tom

As many of you know, I have purchased 50 Nothobranchius eggersi red eggs. Two of the eggs have hatched as of yesterday and one is starting to hover in the water. The other will take a few days to get used to the idea of it being a living thing that can fend for itself.
Tom

capekate

Hi Tom
I remember you posting photos of the fish (eggs) that you bid on and won. They were great looking fish. Id love to find some of them like that around here, unfortunately.. dont think that I would be able to raise the eggs to fry. Would a 10g tank work for that? How are the fry doing these days? Any photos to share?

Tom

A 10 gallon would work for raising the fry after about 3 weeks of being out of the egg. My 2 fry are doing fine. As for the pics, they are way too small. A thing that is about their size is a half a grain of rice(really small).
Tom

capekate

too funny.. your right, they have to be pretty small! Maybe I will save the 10 g for the rainbow platy who is pregnant.

Tom

Then if you get some eggs, you could use the tank also for some fry that are about 1/4" long. But anyways, I checked the size of the fish to the tape measure(compared visually, not pulling the fry out to measure it) and the largest one is about 1/8" long and about 2 weeks old.
Tom

Tom

I looked at the peat about an hour ago and the one and only fry was dead. I plan on drying the peat out again tomorrow so the next set of eggs can hatch and I can will have better luck with the next 'wetting'. It is really tradgic.
Tom

capekate

Sorry to hear that. I know you had your heart set on raising some of these eggs. Good luck with the rest.

Tom

Thanks, on the bright side, only 2 had hatched so there should be 48 more that need to hatch still.
Tom

Tom

I found 3 fry already but one is about 1/8"already and water was added to the container just yesterday. 2 of the fry are attached at the yolk sac and one of them is dead. The 1/8" fry is already a free swimmer and was probably hatched in the package on the way here, but at least it is eating well.
Tom

Tom

I found another fry. I also setup the 5 gallon tank I bought for the purpose of raising the large fry in. It now contains 3 big bunchess of java moss. The tank is about 3/4 full.
Tom

Tom

The 2 fry that I found, are now free swimmers.
Tom

Tom

I checked my fry again today, and there is another fry that hatched a few hours ago. I also rewet the peat from the first batch of eggs. I am getting to be a very happy father.
Tom

Tom

To date I have a grand total of about 5 fry. From what the seeler told me, that is very normal for killifish.
Tom

Tom

To date, their are no fry alive because I went out of town a few weeks ago and wasn't able to feed the little guys.
I am going to see if I can order another 50 eggs when I start to go back to school since I will be able to watch over them almost every day.
Tom