Petrochromis sp Blue Giant

[Vinnynguyen4917]

Best of luck with those eges Sunny.

[SunnyHouTX]

Best of luck with those eges Sunny.

Thanks Vinny.

[cu0ngsayz]

IMO if it isn't fertile you should be able to tell by tomorrow or the day after. That's how fast my eggs go bad when I strip them without eyes and tail

[SunnyHouTX]

IMO if it isn't fertile you should be able to tell by tomorrow or the day after. That's how fast my eggs go bad when I strip them without eyes and tail

What exactly an I looking for? I already see stuff separating inside some eggs

[mistahoo]

What exactly an I looking for? I already see stuff separating inside some eggs

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you look for the eggs that have turned white and toss em.

[Geral]

the color of the eggs if it change is not good or develop red lines or dots

[Geral]

white is when they are dead, but they change color slowly if they are going bad

[cu0ngsayz]

If you see it getting a clear brown color those are going bad.

[cu0ngsayz]

The red line veins shown on the egg is probably on the good side probably a sign of life in the egg. I've never seen dots.

[SunnyHouTX]

Yeah, there's a couple getting the clear look to them. Gonna give them till tomorrow and pull out

[cu0ngsayz]

You don't have to pull them. I never do I just turn up the pump(if on valve) then it just floats up to the top and doesn't come back down cause the top netting catches the bad egg.

[SunnyHouTX]

Yeah, it's on a valve.

[cu0ngsayz]

Yea. Just let the air pump "suck up" the bad eggs. Taking it in and out just to take out bad eggs is too much of a hassle and can cause damage to the good eggs in the process of removing the bad eggs. Then after the eggs hatch all you have to do is rinse the bad eggs off of the top mesh that caught it.

[New2petro]

I have my reasons for stripping at day one. For one, I need to see the fertility rates of these eggs, and another reason is I don't want another aggression flare up to jeopardize these eggs again. I need to find out what works with this colony, and even the individual females, so until then I'm gonna try different things. In case you forgot, I have waited 5 and 10 days previously with two other females that resulted in zero eggs at time of stripping. Unlike those times, I now have eggs in a tumbler that I can watch develop. That works for me.

Congrats on the eggs Sunny, I agree that you have to change things up until you find what works. Good luck bro.

[johnnymisty]

Hows dem eggs doing