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Posted by Dean Alessandrini on May 20, 2002 at 07:39:32:

In Reply to: Need advice about cribo. . .bb posted by CJ on May 18, 2002 at 20:26:11:

I have never owned or bred wild caught black tails or unicolors (the �central american cribos) but I do have a group of 2.1 adult yellowtails that are imports. YT�s are all but unavailable as captive born�and I�m hoping to make that a thing of the past in the near future. (with a lot of luck)

Anyway, of the 3 I have, here�s what I did:

1 � wormed them with flagyl and panacure
2- put them on cypress with very high humidity
3- blocked off the glass on the cage and gave them a good, tight hiding place
4- got them all started with f/thawed chicks.

I have heard many (like Dan suggested) get started using live rat pups or fish, but mine never went for them. They LOVE birds though.

All 3 are high strung animals. I have had one of the males for 1.5 years now, and he is still downright MEAN. They other pair has been in captivity for a about 9 months. The male is high strung but doesn�t bite, and the female, (I call her �Lady Evil�) pretty much wants to kill me. Seriously. I think she�d just kill me and eat me if she could. It�s like she just knows I took her away from her jungle home and just hates my guts. I really don�t like getting imports�but there simply are no cb. Yt�s available. I�ve been trying to find them for over 2years.

All are now taking f/t rats, but it took some time to accomplish this. They now all look very good�the first male is getting real big and thick now�and I think the Lady Evil will be ready to attempt breeding this coming fall. I�m relatively sure the cb babies will be calm, time will tell. I have a lot to learn in the next few months before trying to succeed at this feat�but am determined.

I have a feeling, having seen a lot of w/c blacktails and unicolors, that they are calmer in general than yellowtails. I have seen people handling some big wc adults that seem calm�but then my yt�s didn�t really get mean until AFTER they were caged for a while.

Good Luck,

Dean Alessandrini

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: : I have never owned or bred wild caught black tails or unicolors (the �central american cribos) but I do have a group of 2.1 adult yellowtails that are imports. YT�s are all but unavailable as captive born�and I�m hoping to make that a thing of the past in the near future. (with a lot of luck) : Anyway, of the 3 I have, here�s what I did: : 1 � wormed them with flagyl and panacure : 2- put them on cypress with very high humidity : 3- blocked off the glass on the cage and gave them a good, tight hiding place : 4- got them all started with f/thawed chicks. : I have heard many (like Dan suggested) get started using live rat pups or fish, but mine never went for them. They LOVE birds though. : All 3 are high strung animals. I have had one of the males for 1.5 years now, and he is still downright MEAN. They other pair has been in captivity for a about 9 months. The male is high strung but doesn�t bite, and the female, (I call her �Lady Evil�) pretty much wants to kill me. Seriously. I think she�d just kill me and eat me if she could. It�s like she just knows I took her away from her jungle home and just hates my guts. I really don�t like getting imports�but there simply are no cb. Yt�s available. I�ve been trying to find them for over 2years. : All are now taking f/t rats, but it took some time to accomplish this. They now all look very good�the first male is getting real big and thick now�and I think the Lady Evil will be ready to attempt breeding this coming fall. I�m relatively sure the cb babies will be calm, time will tell. I have a lot to learn in the next few months before trying to succeed at this feat�but am determined. : I have a feeling, having seen a lot of w/c blacktails and unicolors, that they are calmer in general than yellowtails. I have seen people handling some big wc adults that seem calm�but then my yt�s didn�t really get mean until AFTER they were caged for a while. : Good Luck, : Dean Alessandrini

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