Hi all,<
>Was wondering how I go about stripping africans, and is there an alternative?<
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>Yay im now a goldfish Edited by: buzzard guts at: 22/7/05 12:29<
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Get a spare net<
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>Place in top of tank so it is in the water<
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>Catch fish with mouthful<
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>Open mouth with thuimbnail, hold open and stroke under jaw with forefinger, shake a little & fry \ eggs will fall out.<
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>Cheers Dave<
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i get a container fill it with tank water (luchbox or what ever) catch her as quickly as possible so as to not stress her too much (risk of her swallowing or spitting in the tank).<
>after i catch her i lie her in my right hand upside down with her head facing away from me.<
>then i use my forefinger on my left hand to GENTLY pull her bottom jaw open then i dunk her in and out of the container of water. you can look in her mouth to see if you have them all.<
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>then return her to the tank. try not to have her out of the water fopr more than 60sec (quicker the better)<
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>if ya wanna drop into the shop oneday i can find a girl with a mouthful and demonstrate for you <
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I was under the impression reply #1 was sufficient, ditto from myself.<
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Thanks for the offer cosmotiger.
be under what ever impression you want!!!!<
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>he is knew, i told him step by step with more detail. there was still qhestions to raise with the first reply!<
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>geeze you people aggitate me these days!!!<
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>goodluck buz 1 out of 4 people have a mental dissability!<
>think of your 3 best mates if there fine..... IT MUST BE YOU!!!
give her $5...... Cheers<
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I use a syringe, Fill an ice cream container with tank water and also a small margarine container with tank water.<
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>Catch the fish as quickly as possible and place in the ice cream container.<
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>Fill the syringe with water.<
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>Catch her in your left hand hold her on her side just out of the water in the second container, put light pressure on the bottom jaw and she will open her mouth.<
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>Now with the syringe very lightly push water into the top of her mouth and flush the fry out.<
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>From start to finish under a minute once you have don it a few times.<
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>Similar to others, by fulling a container with tank water. I use the edge of tooth pick to pull down gently on the females bottom jaw. Better than using a chunky finger on a delicate cichlid mouth & the thin edge also helps fry come out of the mouth easier too.<
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>Frenchy "A house full of people is a house full of different points of view"<
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When I was doing the lecture circuit, I demonstrated my favoured method at club meeting from Newcastle to Rockhampton and points west. I also demonstrated this method to professional cichlid farmers in Florida where every fish is caught out of every
eeding pond every week, and all holding females stripped.<
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>Any one who has done science at school knows what a ''wash bottle'' is....a plastic bottle about 500ml, with tube spout bent at a angle for washing scientific apparatus.<
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>Hold the female in the lefthand, dorsal into palm. Hold her head between forefinger and thumb keeping the gills closed to prevent water/eggs/fry being forced through the gills. Hold head down over receiving container, open the mouth with the plastic spout and rinse.<
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>With practice the whole opperation takes no more than 10 seconds and 100% effective....no retained eggs or fry.<
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>What happened to all the old club members who saw this 20 plus years ago ??????<
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>Alan. When life gives you lemons ask for a bottle of tequila & salt.<
>The only danger I find in life is to take too many precautions. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.<
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>Great way of stripping Alan. <
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>Frenchy "A house full of people is a house full of different points of view"<
>Edited by: here fishie fishie at: 24/7/05 0:18<
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hey buz, check this out......<
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>www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/
eeding_list.php Cheers<
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Thanks everyone
i know it''s probably on that site, but what do people think about stripping the fry whilst they still have some of the egg sack.<
>i have a female hongi who is just bursting at the seams, i went to strip her before and the fry are almost fully developed, just still with some egg sack.<
>how will they go if i take them from her? Steven & Amy<
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Steve they should be fine, once they have hatched they have a much better chance of surviving, once they have colour they are pretty much on their way..<
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>My 5cents, i also have used a syringean dit works great ...if the fish has a decent size mouth, for small fish, a cotton tip rolled downwards against their bottom jaw ( so it catches their teeth and opens their mouth) works very well.<
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As I said in my post,,,,,the professionals in the US strip every holding female, every week. Be they hatched fry or just eggs one day old.<
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>And their tumbler/egg hatcher/ fry savers are so simple you would not believe.<
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>Alan. When life gives you lemons ask for a bottle of tequila & salt.<
>The only danger I find in life is to take too many precautions. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.<
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i use to strip my duboisi the day i noticed the mouthful and use a strainer with an air stone under it over 6 months of this with stripping females avery week i had 4 eggs not hatch or live.<
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I try to let my fish spit naturally but sometimes they just dont and therefore I strip so that the mother does not get harmed or malnourished from holding.<
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>Just be on the watch you want to protect and look after your mum
Thanks again