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    Hey that's enough of the Blonde Jokes EX.A1
    "True Friends are like Blue Diamonds, so Brilliant, Precious and Rare - Protect them while you can"

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    LOL
    i would have lost my head if it were not screwed on this week Ladyred can vouch for that she has witnessed my lack of intelligence a few times this week
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    It's always darkest before dawn ... so if you're going to steal some rocks
    from your neighbours garden for your display tank, that's the time to do it.

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    What type of rotifers were you using? Did you culture them yourself? They look like they are doing great!

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    Well done Samir!

    Something i wanted to try but never had the time to do!

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    food

    were did you get the rotifers from
    are they live if they are how do you look after them
    did you feed them rotifers because the parants eat the eggs

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    the parents dont eat the eggs, its the other pair that does that. they were live and were being fed on chlorella paste, i forgot about them for a couple of days and now the're dead. i need to work on keeping the culture alive. the fry part was easy. next time i'll try the hikari frozen . i'm too lazy for cultures and stuff.

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    Samir post up your results after you tried the frozen rotifers. I would be very interested to compare.

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    rotifers

    can you get frozen rotifers from any lfs cos the 2 nere me dont have them

    do the fry eat the frozen rotifers

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    hikari has frozen rotifers, i think they are the saltwater kind. i dunno if they will eat them, they sure ate the live freshwater ones.
    Ben I removed them when they hatched. 100% survival rate didn't expect that. they started eating bbs in 5 or 6 days i think. I hope the frozen ones work as well, they do seem much larger so I'm not that optimistic. Lim & Wong (the guys that did the research) got 95% and 70% survival as opposed to 85% with parent reared. Survival for dwarf gourami fry (day 2-12) was rotifers 92.3% vs egg yolk 58%. I'll let you know next week (when i remove the cone from a couple of angry egg munching reds )

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