Victorians Holding

[jcunningham0295]

Do Victorians generally hold around three weeks like Malawi? My flamback has been holding for just over a week. Would the fry have hatched by now?

[LewC]

For most (but not all) species, Vic eggs develop quicker than Malawi eggs...maybe around 2 weeks instead of 3. If I'm going to strip already hatched eggs, I pull Malawis after about 2 weeks, Vics (including Flamebacks) after 11 or 12 days (except for the longer holding ones).

Hope that helps, and good luck!
Lew

[jcunningham0295]

Thanks for the info. At two weeks do Vicorian eggs still need to be tumbled or are they free swimming fry by this time?

[LewC]

When eggs develop heads and tails and can move around a bit, they don't need tumbled any more. When I strip Vics at 10 days and Malawis at 2 weeks, I just put them in a a container of water with airation, and they're fine. The airation might not even be necessary. At 2 weeks, most Vics are almost free swimming, if not all the way free swimming. No need to tumble.

Lew

[Victorian_Votarist]

Another easy way is to just put the holding female in a 5-15 gallon tank dependin on how big the female is.

I do this to all my females and after a couple weeks when the fry are strong enough I remove the female and use the tank as a grow out tank until the Juvi stage.

Generally speaking it can take 2-3 weeks for the female to actually spit the fry and let them swim around.

[tinker477]

Was just going to post a similar question about my nyererei I have 3 holding females for approx 8 days and wasnt sure if they held as long as malawi mouthbrooders I pulled all 3 today and put them
in a 20g but was planning on splitting them into 3 sep 10 to 15 gallons....can I leave em all together or would it be best to seperate them they all started holding within days of each other the longest being about 8 to 10 days

[LewC]

You might not have any problems putting all 3 together, but I'd be safer to keep them separate. After the fry are out, then you can put them together. A 10g would be big enough for all the fry for a while.

Lew

[tinker477]

Thanks

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