Chuckie Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Last night at the SKG meeting, Mel contributed some 20ml syringes and they were extremely popular. It was quite hilarious to hear the raffle winners calling out "I'll take another syringe, thanks". Anyway, Abbey mentioned that there is a technique for making an egg tumbler out of the syringe (less the plunger). Does anyone know any more about this? If Smith keeps being an egg eater, I may want to give it a try, along with still artificial hatching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbites Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 If you're using the syringe in tact... possibly put an airline with a very very low flow rate on the pointy end of the syringe but you'd have to put a screen at the bottom to stop eggs falling down into the tube if the air went off. You'd also need a screen or something over the top to stop eggs floating up and out as well... Not sure how else you'd do it.... They wouldn't hold a lot of eggs though unless they were very small.... I give up... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted April 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 They'd hold a whole clutch of betta eggs easily. How big an egg do your fish lay? :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbites Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 African Cichlid eggs are about 2-3mm across and bristlenose eggs are about 3mm across. Some African's have at least 30 eggs in a batch and sometimes you have several batches at once and bristlenoses have at least 30 easily. But for Betta's - it would be fine unless they went berserk and produced a few hundred eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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