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Re: Tragedy
When desperate for Nothos I pull out the peat and pick the eggs. I put the eggs in a petri dish with just enough water to cover them. They eye up in two weeks. Then just flood with water and a pinch of microworms and some will hatch.
If you leave the eggs in the peat in the tank they will not develop. They stay in diapause 1. This is apparently because they are in an oxygen starved environment. By drying the peat or moving the eggs to a petri dish you are increasing the oxygen level and speeding up hatching time. Good luck...bob
>>> ohimo at hotmail_com 09/01/00 01:10AM >>>
Wait a minute. It takes 2 weeks for N. guentheri eggs to incubate? In
water? I've never heard that before, but if that's the case, then maybe I
should check my geuntheri tanks more carefully...
>
>If you had the male and female guntheri together last month, you probably
>have eggs. Guntheri only take a month to peat incubate and 2 weeks to
>water incubate. They are sexually mature in six weeks. You could put the
>female in a cool place and let her grow. Rush the eggs you collected and
>you should have a replacement male before she even knows the old one is
>gone.
>If you don't have eggs, just buy another pair of guntheri and you will have
>a trio. Most of us prefer to spawn Nothos in trios to give the females a
>little break. If you had lost a female it would have been a tragedy. A
>male is no loss.
>
>I am sure that someone local will have Nothos for you. If not, drop me a
>not when it is cooler and I will refer you to someone who has Nothos.
>Sorry for your loss...bob
>
> >>> asboatman at mindspring_com 08/31/00 03:27PM >>>
>
>
> Bad news. My male N. geuntheri died this morning. The only thing I did
>different this time is to let the peat pellets (2) expand and drop inside
>their container, about 5 days ago (8-26-00). I beleive this somehow
>contaminated the water. I have done no ammonia tests or anything. I've
>been using fresh rainwater. The peat pellets are from my club. I'm pretty
>sad about the whole thing. They've been healthy as horses, then all of the
>sudden they are breathing hard so I aeriate. Seems to help some, but then
>the male starts rocking side to side. So I moved them to a fresh shoebox
>of
>rainwater. Then he rolls over after an hour and inside 5 hours he is dead.
>The female survived him.
>
>
> Both of the fallax's are still alive, thank God, though the male
>shredded
>the female two days ago, so she is recouperating in a smaller tank, with
>her
>lip hanging half off. This was after her turning pseudo-male-ish in color.
>I don't understand it. They're in a ten with driftwood, java moss, naias
>grass, great water quality, and plenty of food. All this happened at once,
>so I've come to the list for help. If you have any suggestions, then shoot.
>Remember I've only been doing this since the AKA convention here in Tampa,
>this year. Talk to y'all soon, I'm going to go drown my sorrows in a glass
>of Sangria.
>
>Boat (thinking that sometimes african rift lake cichlids are easier)
>
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