wonderful. I dont know how you get dad out to take the photo! if i have eggs I can only see them by taking flash photo (less disturbing than torch) but then dad covers the eggs so often cant see them.
The Pleco caves from bone
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Irene0100, well usually my males do the same. But I think this one is a too young. So ge just ran away. And I took the eggs out of cave, and there are up to 15 fry in the rearing tank. But 1 of the fry I think won't survive. It has too small yolk. I'll make an separate thread and show him.
well I have a bone. I boiled and cleaned, then put in tank for fish to clean (but no ancistrus, !) after 2 days it smelled awfull --yuk, so tool it out and boiled it again to sterilise -so whole house then stunk!
Am soaking in beer at the moment cos was on 'Bones' tv program where they cleanse the bones with beer (as its a fictional program it may not work).
might try another approach for next bone the butcher get s me - hubby reckons I should bury in the garden for a month and the worms will clean it!
Am soaking in beer at the moment cos was on 'Bones' tv program where they cleanse the bones with beer (as its a fictional program it may not work).
might try another approach for next bone the butcher get s me - hubby reckons I should bury in the garden for a month and the worms will clean it!
lol, beer did not seem to do very much, so have washed it and put it back into a tank. the cherry shrimp seem to like it so maybe they will clean it off.
Excellent thread!!.. Not sure I could boil bones though, think I'll leave these caves to you guys.. :thumbup:
realistically in Australia at least, if you get 4-6 bones, leave it our for 8weeks they will be clean as a whistle. The maggots will get to them and everything will be gone. Have not tried it, but know this from the bones for our dog, anything left for more than afew days and voila maggots. By all means clean the bones, cut off the ends, but thats it. After 8weeks boil it quickly and it should be as good as gold. might try this today actually. cheers jk :thumbup:
I'm really happy that the you are creating your own bone cave
What exactly bone have you got? Could you take some pictures of it?
I don't understand have you cut off the unneeded parts of the bone? It is easier to clean it from rests of meat if you have already cut off the unneeded parts.
About cleaning the bones:
any of method can be used either young ancistrus, shrimps, snails or The maggots.
I think shrimps and snail could do it too quite good. But keep changing the water in the tank with raw bone daily.
well took bones out of tanks today and they really stink so have put them on table in the garden for now. the dog keeps eyeing them!
they are very rough on the inside so think I need to sand paper them or something so fish wont graze themselves
bone 1:
bone 1 in tank with shrimp cleaning it
second bone, cut a bit shorter so not as wide at the opening, still rough where there is fibrous bone inside.
they are very rough on the inside so think I need to sand paper them or something so fish wont graze themselves
bone 1:
bone 1 in tank with shrimp cleaning it
second bone, cut a bit shorter so not as wide at the opening, still rough where there is fibrous bone inside.
Irene0100, quite good
The part of bone from second and third pictures are the best for plecos.
But you still need to remove this part of bone that is marked with red bellow:
I usually do it with the knife.
In the result you should have something like this:
The part of bone from second and third pictures are the best for plecos.
But you still need to remove this part of bone that is marked with red bellow:
I usually do it with the knife.
In the result you should have something like this:
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ok very intersting, so you have to remove the bubbly type bone marrow structure as well, so basically bare bone. Will try this as well. cheers jk :thumbup:
If you have a crow or a raven handy they pick them clean. That is what happens to the bones the dog leaves outside.
What about the bones that are already clean from the shop and sterilized. The ones for dogs. Not sure I could be doing that, if it smells like mince or tripe then no way.
Good idea though.
What about the bones that are already clean from the shop and sterilized. The ones for dogs. Not sure I could be doing that, if it smells like mince or tripe then no way.
Good idea though.
Irene0100, is there any news about your attempt to create and use bone cave?
Is there any spawning results?
Is there any spawning results?