RE: Nothobranchius will not spawn.

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Subject: RE: Nothobranchius will not spawn.

From: "Joe Bulterman" <jbulterman at earthlink_net>

Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:09:41 -0400

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Try this: take 1 male and 1 or 2 females and place them in a 2 liter soda pop bottle with the top cut off. Fill with about 5 inches height of water and place 1 inch of aged, rinsed peat in the bottom of the pop bottle. Add salt as usual for that amount of water - 1 tsp. per gallon. Feed enough daphnia as the spawning group will eat or if you do not have any daphnia, a very small amount of baby brine shrimp. Leave in the bottle for 48 hours and remove the adults. Rinse the peat in a fine net and after a good squeeze, break the peat apart gently and see if there are eggs present. The eggs can be small and translucent. If your adults are old enough to spawn there should be eggs in the peat. Works every time for me.

Joe Bulterman
AKA Membership Committee
3233 Dunster Court
Fairfax, VA 22030
703.591.7521
http://www.chesapeakekillifish.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On Behalf Of Mark Francis
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:44 PM
To: killietalk
Subject: Nothobranchius will not spawn.

My Nothobranchius Rachovii and Nothobranchius fuscotaeniatus, just will not breed.

I have spawned Rachovii many times with no problems,until now.

There is peat in a container, but the females will not go inside.

Maybe the temperature is to low, at 74.

References

Nothobranchius will not spawn.

From: "Mark Francis" <fishes at lynx_net>