I am a Stripper

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Today is the day! Stripped several fish today, Long pelvic fin, Paracyphs, Cyphs and Cyphos Moba.

Long Pelvic Fin Galireya Reef





She must be holding 30+. So much fry for a small momma

Paracyphs and Cyphs.




Only 4 for the paracyphs...just glad to know they start spawning




Nice Clutch from the cyphs utinta!

Moba





Not a whole lot but this momma holds consistenly.

Now let's see y'alls strip!

ummm

Hahaha

I thought there woulda been dancing involved. LOL

Mpimbwe


By a1africancichlid at 2010-10-14

One of these kids is not like the others, can you spot him or her?

wow did they just hatch in this picture?

Its blue!

I killed them all except the Mobas that I sold and never got paid for

dam thats rotten LUCK! why i had to pay you for my mobas? LOL (srry bout dat)

jaiko1975 wrote:

wow did they just hatch in this picture?

They are about 17 days post spawn in this picture (13 days post strip), still allot of egg, but growing fast.

okcfish wrote:

Its blue!

haha, well I should've said there are three different ones, there is the one light blue one and the almost black one, unfortunately these two were not well and died =/ But the success story is the small on hiding in the left of the photo. This one nearly died from fungus very early on, but instead of spreading from it's egg sac to the body the egg sac simply fell off. I have had this happen once before but the fry died. This time by feeding him spirulina several times a day I have kept this little one alive, and other than his size he looks great!

The stripper is back time to put the DIY tumblers to work!

Some red empress babies



This batch might got stripped too early




Some fronts fry

[quote="khrister"]I killed them all except the Mobas that I sold and never got paid for [/quote

How did u kill them all?
I finally some fry from the chimates

Phung I have killed 1000 of fry from water changes, I get
A phone call during WC and forget to put prime. Nowadays I just let them call go to VM or dose the tank again with prime just to be on the safe side.

Been there done that!! I always dose 2x now, once when I start again when I am done filling.

Better to be safe then sorry!

And that is why I love Prime!! Very very hard to OD on it

Losing fish over not "Prime"ing? Really? Must be very picky fry!

I've never breeded my fish, what is stripping?

The act of opening a female mouth brooders mouth to make her spit out her fry!

so they keep them in their mouth! what if they swallow them? how will I know if my fish have fry in their mouths?

CSnyder00 wrote:

Losing fish over not "Prime"ing? Really? Must be very picky fry!

You don't use Prime or any water treatment product when doing Water Changes?

I do now. I use AquaSafe. I used to be able to do water changes without any because I had natural spring water which was tested all the time. I will be again going back to well water instead of city water very soon! I just can't believe that the content of your water would kill fry. It must be wicked city water.