Red Empress & Yellow Lab spawning..

[kev82]

I just stripped 2x Red Empress (Protomelas Taeniolatus) females and 1x Yellow lab (Labidochromis Caerulus) female.
Here is the happy crowd []

Here's the Red Empress male: (picture taken last september)

And one of the females (lousy picture..):

This was a total of 91 fry, including 16 Yellow Lab.

 

[valerie]

I have heard of stripping and know what it is but how is it done?

 

[Ozalie]

congradulations !! Your red express male is beatiful.

 

[kev82]

It's basically just picking the fish up, opening its mouth (via sticking a fingernail between its lips or such) and pouring the fry into a bucket or something filled with water

Requires a few times to get the hang of it, but soon you get the hang of it and the fish are happy to get rid of the fry

Mine were begging for food and greeting my an hour after I stripped them

 

[Ozalie]

I'm wondering if you would be interested in selling/shipping some of your fry? Around here the stores don't sell anything of great interest , it took awhile to get my yellow labs and electric blues!
I really like the red empress and I think my set-up would work.

 

[kev82]

I would ship them, but it's kinda hard since i'm in Iceland, and you're in Minnesota...

Sorry.

 

[Ozalie]

Finally someone willing to ship some fish and thier in anothor country! Should have noticed that.....thanks for responding though.

 

[kev82]

Hah, and I thought it was so easy to get purdy fishies in usa

 

[Ozalie]

not in northern Minnesota.we have to drive 2 hours just to find a decent store,and as far as I know there is no fish store in the whole state,that is,if you want heathly fish!

 

[kev82]

What about ordering from Jeff Rapps or something like that?