in natural lakes/ponds, the water won't get close to 70 for weeks. How will or how do the eggs laying in 50 degree water hatch in natural conditions? Not sure I follow how the 70 degree water helps them hatch when there is concern about fungus at warmer temps too. Newbie for sure here...
Yes so we took the ribbon out when the pond was 39*F and placed it into tanks that we held at about 61-63. The warmer the better this is why we see young hatched in 6 days and the most on day 7. The warmer the temp the faster they will incubate and hatch. We bumped the temp tonight because we have five tanks full about 25 gallons total and there is millions of these and all we are targeting is 500 max. That is giving away 300.
As we get die of we will siphon them out of the bottom of the tank and will pull the rest of the ribbons soon.
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