Purpose built Tumblers vs Strainers

[Karen]

Hi,

What are peoples opinions on the pros and cons of Egg tumblers vs Strainers?

or any other type of egg incubating device? .

Merry Xmas to all and a safe, happy and healthy new year.

[aquaholic99]

I use wine glasses with slow water trickle.

[Scuba Steve]

i use tumblers from a guy off here. tumbled hundreds of eggs now and havent lost a single one to fungus. relatively cheap too

[a-f-a]

I've used them but had trouble with hatching newly fertilized eggs

say within a week of spawn

With Malawi haps

i find the strainers work better for me

[Karen]

Hey guys sorry for the delayed response. Am really surprised we didn't get more response

on this topic.

Would love a pic of the wine glass setup Aqua?

And Whilst A - Fin & Scuba both had the same results on dif setups, could you guys expand

on it a bit, - think this would be helpful to a lot of people

Or anyone else???

Cheers and happy healthy new year to everyone

[aquaholic99]

Large eggs like frontosa at 24 hours old will bruise and scratch easily so glass is best. You don't need to tumble, you just have to turn so the embryo doesn't stick to one side. If your robbing after 5 days then you can already see heads and tails so what you use then is less critical. Very fine sandpaper on sieves will reduce scratches. Bumbling up temp to speed development snd use UV or acraflavin.

The earlier you rob, the more eggs you recover. Typically 150+ on an average frontosa spawn.

However, I mostly use glass on other exotic species. Google zoug jars if you want examples. Most cichlids are pretty easy regardless.

Winston

[Karen]

Cheers Winston, very informative,

I have always been a plastic sieve girl with blue water thou always worth checking out better or different ways. Thank u sounds great will check it out

[aquaholic99]

Meth blue is very old school! It's hard to find crystal nowadays and I'm down to my last 2kg. Meth blue is good for oxygenation and reducing light but one third strength acryflavine is best for fungus. Sera mycopure if your ever overseas is my preferred choice.

Removing dead eggs from tumblers is finicky imo.

[Karen]

Cheers I am old school (will admit) and yep can't find what was lots of times.

Will try to pick up some acryflavine.

Thanks again Winston

[mines bigger]

I make my own tumblers, easy to do and cheap, works just as well as a strainer though lol

[Braddo]

I have never had much luckwith tumblers especially in the days of using nls found the waste clogged them pretty good. I have reverted back to strainers just find them easier to use and better hatch rates. One tumbler I found really good was made from a coke bottle and a tile made in such a way that when the fry were free swimming they swam out and into the raising tank.