[Killietalk] Re: getting started with gardneri

[Debunix <debunix at well_com>]

I still think of myself as a newbie with killies, compared to the 
people who have been doing this for years and years, and gardneri were 
the first killies I was successful with.

You may not need to worry much about mops; in my heavily planted tanks, 
the gardneri as well as the other plant spawners (ok, only three 
species, A. loennbergi, A. gabunense, and the gardneri) routinely 
scorned my mops, and spawned in gravel, in the roots of java ferns, in 
nooks of the driftwood, in the java moss (those being some of the 
places where I saw them doing the spawning dance)--but never ever near 
or in the mops.

In these tanks, I just always make sure to always feed for potential 
fry, even if I haven't seen them.  Again, with all the plants, I often 
don't see them until they're quite large.  I just add a tiny sprinkle 
or pinch of a powdered dry food or freeze-dried cyclopeeze in the 
morning, and always have a few microworms in the evening feeding.

I think of it as the "if you feed them they will come" strategy.


Diane Brown in St. Louis

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