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BOUNCE killietalk at aka_org: Non-member submission from["Walburger, David" <DWalburger at Epochpharm_com>]

Could someone post a URL to a picture of this "shark"?

-Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Johnson [mailto:allen_h_johnson at yahoo_com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 8:41 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: Aphanius Mento


I have maintained Aphanius mento for 15 years and
after a recent move lost my breeders.  In many ways
this fish is my favorite killie because it is so
active.  However, you can keep a colony of a number of
these fish at 70 degrees F in a twenty gallon tank,
but only with plenty of java moss for cover.  If you
have a good pair of well conditioned breeders, in such
an aquarium you should get many fry in one weeks time.
 In a bare tank or tank with a spawning moop the males
will attempt to drive females to the mop to breed and
will damage them.  In my experience breeding A. mento
with a spawning mop is going to result in a single
male.  Java moss and plenty of hiding spots for the
females are needed.  I have also placed solitary males
of A. mento into community tanks or with some dwarf
cichlids (kribensis) with very poor results.  The A.
mento harass the cichlids, and the cichlids soon die.


--- BizEcology at aol_com wrote:
> Is Aphanius Mento psychotic by nature?  I know it's
> aggresive, but I've had
> an easier time keeping male bettas together than
> these suckers.  I bought a
> spawning group (2m 3F) at a meeting and put them in
> a ten gallon tank with
> large numbers of sinking mops for hiding.  A few
> days later the smaller male
> was dead.  Over the next two weeks, two of the
> females were killed.  I
> separated the remaining pair and conditioned them
> separately.  I then put
> them together in the morning in a 5 gal container
> loaded with mops.  She was
> killed during the day.  I did get a few eggs and
> have been raising the fry.
> The larger ones have gotten up to about 1" and the
> males are coloring up.
> Yesterday they killed one of the females.  I pulled
> the fish out and put each
> male in a separate tank and have the females in one
> tank together.  I have
> also pulled a few eggs out of the original tank so
> they are spawning.  Now my
> current plan is to condition the fish and place a
> spawning group together in
> a tank in a morning when I can be present during the
> day.  Would you suggest
> 1 male and multiple females or multiple males and
> females?  These are
> beautiful fish and I would like to get a decent
> population going.
>
> The original male?  I put him in a 20 gal tank with
> my mated pair of
> Pseudotropheus demasoni and a few Xenotoca eiseni.
> He's the only 'dither
> fish' in the tank with no wounds.
>
>
> <<** Larry **>>
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