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RE: whats the best peat to use
Good morning Gary. Yes, I was referring to the eggs you sent me. I took
them out and spread everything out under a good light yesterday afternoon
when I got home form work and couldn't find anything except some little
brown things thatlook like some kind of seed. They are certainly not
transparent and there aren't very many of them. I put everyting back in the
bag, but it doesn't look too hopeful does it? I feel bad about this after
you were good enough to send them and all. That's life I guess.
Regards,
George
-----Original Message-----
From: cfghra [mailto:cfghra at world-link_com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 3:21 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: RE: whats the best peat to use
Hi George
>I'd like to relate my recent (first) experience
> recieving annual eggs in the mail.
I am taking a guess that these are the eggs I sent you. First of have you
checked to see if there are any eggs in the peat, they would of spent 2 days
in a plane plus x-rays and what ever else customs would do to them. If these
are the eggs I sent you, there would not be many Americans that got there
first annual eggs from Australia.
> A couple of days later I
> couldn't help looking inside ( for no particular reason) and the peat was
> snow white! It scared the devil out of me. I took a spatula and carefuly
> scraped the surface and found the mold layer to be very thin so I
> scraped it
> off and put the eggs and peat back in their bag.
I have found mould and fungus in peat before probably caused by uneaten food
or infertile eggs, but never as bad as you mentioned. When I have found it,
I can't remember it attacking fertile eggs or reducing the hatch.
> Everything
> seems to be OK
> now several weeks later and I will be wetting the eggs in about
> 10 days.
Before you wet them lay the peat out and have a good look at the eggs if
they didn't get nuked or frozen, it won't take long to find a couple of eggs
check to see if they are still clear or you can see there eyes. The date I
put on the bag is only guide, it all depends on temp how wet the peat was
and with N. whitei its so easy to see the fry in the egg the date is only
there as a reminder to check the eggs.
The reason I am replying to the hole list is I have sent quite a few of
these eggs around the world.
Gary Harman-Hobbs
NAKA 69, AKA 08116
Adelaide, South Australia
Don't worry be happy.
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