hey all, my electric yellows have eggs again, yay. thats the first bit, secondly, how do i milk them for their young. i heard if you milk them you get more young, so i was wondering, when where and how i do this please. thanx
krusty
krusty
Milking Fish for their young
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Hiya Big Ears, The most widely used term for this is stripping. Milking refers to extracting sperm from males.
I suppose its true that stripping will give you a higher yeild, but IMO you get bigger and healthier fry if you just let her spit. Stripping is just a matter of gently opening her mouth and moving her back and forth in the water. The fry will swim right out. I would strip at around 15-17 days.
I suppose its true that stripping will give you a higher yeild, but IMO you get bigger and healthier fry if you just let her spit. Stripping is just a matter of gently opening her mouth and moving her back and forth in the water. The fry will swim right out. I would strip at around 15-17 days.
Unless you’re in this hobby to make profit, you shouldn’t strip the female.
Stripping of females is only used as an effort to increase the number of spawns (the frequency of spawning) of the female, that’s how you get more offspring.
Jimmy
Stripping of females is only used as an effort to increase the number of spawns (the frequency of spawning) of the female, that’s how you get more offspring.
Jimmy
Stripping is tough on the mother, babies, and the owner too. 
There is no reason to do so. Unless the mom is too weak to carry on or refusing to release after 28+ days.
I do place the mom in nnursery at the time of the release to save the fires from being eaten by other fish. Feed mom for a couple of days very well, starting with defrosted skinless peas. Then bring her back to themain tank.
Enjoy your new babies.
There is no reason to do so. Unless the mom is too weak to carry on or refusing to release after 28+ days.
I do place the mom in nnursery at the time of the release to save the fires from being eaten by other fish. Feed mom for a couple of days very well, starting with defrosted skinless peas. Then bring her back to themain tank.
Enjoy your new babies.
Stripping, as a rule, is best done in gentleman's clubs.
I have heard that the forcible removal of babies from a mouthbrooding mother could damage her jaw and could cause her to become predisposed to early spitting of young, if she ever breeds again. Any of M.P. Smith's Barron's books on E. African Cichlids will give an explanation of stripping, but will also give the caveats mentioned above. Electric Yellows are lovely fish, but there would be no monetary advantage to breeding them en masse in most locales, and hurting a brooding female seems to distinctly reduce any chance at "coming out ahead" with this venture.
I have heard that the forcible removal of babies from a mouthbrooding mother could damage her jaw and could cause her to become predisposed to early spitting of young, if she ever breeds again. Any of M.P. Smith's Barron's books on E. African Cichlids will give an explanation of stripping, but will also give the caveats mentioned above. Electric Yellows are lovely fish, but there would be no monetary advantage to breeding them en masse in most locales, and hurting a brooding female seems to distinctly reduce any chance at "coming out ahead" with this venture.