Quote Originally Posted by Louis Kirkland View Post
We have had some problems when they are crowded. We keep ours in 1.2 or 1.3 groups. Once the babies are weaned, it's best to remove them from the breeding group.

They don't seem to take well to "strangers", so we use siblings to set up new breeding groups. Just seems to work better for us.

We've never had a spoilage problem with the 6F. We have food "hoppers" on our cages/racks that hold several days worth of food and we just top them off when needed. We never have to discard food.

I hope that helps you. Let me know if you have other questions. Good luck with yours.
Very interesting. when you take out the babies once are they are weaned, do you just throw them together with same size babies from other breeding groups?

I am using 10 gallon tanks. what would you consider "overcrouded" for grow up tanks?

Last, but not least... So you never have to put new blood into the colony??? In other words, you never have to put a newbee in to mix up the gene pool a bit?

Thanks again for taking the time to answer all my questions!