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Re: Fundulas sciaticus
Dale,
Thanks for your help. How did you accomplish the cold cycle? Just a cold
place in the house or some more elaborate system.
Dave
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From: "Dale Deck" <deck at ptcnet_net>
To: "Killie List" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Fundulas sciaticus
> They are a native here in Nebraska. I have raised them only from
> wild caught fish. They must go through the winter cycle here to
> spawn. The ones that I collected were collected in Mid May and
> spawned about two weeks later. I put them in a tank with java moss
> and then removed the adults after they finished spawning. I did
> raise about 20 fry to adults. The fry were raised on newly hatched
> brine shrimp and later with my own paste food. I was unable to
> duplicate the winter cycle but only tried twice and then only
> at about 55 degrees and then the first for 4 weeks and the second for
> about 8 weeks. In nature the streams all have ice on them so the
> temp is a lot lower. No problem keeping them except like most
> killies they do jump.
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