egg tumbler or not???

[Geral]

I have a Canary cheek holdin she have never give fry always lost the egg or eat it , It has been more than 10 days holding i dont know if run the chance or use a DIY tumbler i made just to have it in hand in case ,

i have 3 duboisi holding too i dont care too much about duboisi fry cause i dont have space for them at the moment until i upgrade their tank try with their eggs or go ahed and put the eggs of the canary cheek
i dont want to lost this eggs cause i wanna grow this colony and i never have use a egg tumble always wait until they spit but most of the time lost more than the one that they made it .



suggestions?

[Geral]

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[armthehomeless]

Use the dubs to practice stripping the fry. Once you feel confident, try the canary cheek.

[Geral]

Tim what you thing about the egg tumbler look alright ?

[Geral]

i saw it on you tube a simple design and have the stuff in hand lol

[mistahoo]

+1 practice stripping them dubs!

Put a tiny piece of gravel (about the size of a troph egg) in the tumbler and turn it on. If the gravel bounces a lot then it should work fine for the eggs.

[cu0ngsayz]

I tried that rock thing with my tumbler and it didn't bounce. But when I actually put eggs in it bounced. Eggs weight less so you might wanna try something closer to the eggs weight to get a good idea.

Youre tumbler looks like it would work. My friend made one like that you just have to play with it when the eggs are in there. Sometimes you have to block the top of the tumbler to get the eggs to tumble.

[tunedis95]

Heck. I used a large wine glass, covered it with netting material, and pointed the flow to where it moved the eggs the way I wanted. Worked several times so far.

[RonR.]

I use double screened tumblers for my F1 moba fry. I bought my best one from Jrogo. He's out of NY I think.

I tore my bottom screen and replaced it with a sink drain strainer I got at Bering Hardware that fit the best. I cut it to size using regular scissors and attached it with aquarium safe sealer. You need a double screen because smaller fish and plecos will suck the fragile eggs right out of the bottom.

I modified this tumbler by drilling a hole all the way through the top pieces so I could run a stainless steel bolt to attach both pieces together. I screw a nut on it to be sure both pieces stay together. I had this tumbler open on me once before several years ago releasing all my egg-bound moba wigglers. They became moba caviar. :(

Here's a recent vid I took of my latest batch of F1 moba fry. You will see what I've tried to explain here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M0M1FfpCPc

Hope this helps you and others here.

[Geral]

Thanks for share Ron that. Tumbler look nice!!

Don't have another one for sale?

I am looking for one this week. I lost too many eggs this. Last month .

[RonR.]

Thanks for share Ron that. Tumbler look nice!!

Don't have another one for sale?

I am looking for one this week. I lost too many eggs this. Last month .

Sorry I don't have any for sale. Do a search for jrogo on aquabid and ebay. He's been listed on there. He gets them out pretty fast.

[Geral]

Ron u have pm