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Re: Ap. Liniatus

Title: Ap. Liniatus
Good morning Jorge-Ernesto
 
Your situation with the baby brine shrimp probably reminds a lot of us of "Murphy's law". If something can go wrong, it will.
 
I have never tried the powdered cooked chicken egg yolk approach - although if you try it, make sure you do frequent water changes. Having a bunch of small snails would also be useful. I would try Tetra's livebearer fry food first. (The lineatus are big enough that the egglayer food - good for lampeyes - might be too small.)
 
Another temporary measure, until you can get the baby brine shrimp going again, would be to ease the baby lineatus into a planted, well established tank, where you have removed the other fish. Or just put a lot of plants into their tank so that they may browse the rotifers and other microscopic life living on and around the plants. (Watch out for fishy hitch-hikers.)
 
If you have some adult brine shrimp in a holding container, they will sometimes have given birth to a certain number of offspring. I have taken a portion of live brine shrimp, purchased at a pet shop, out of the refrigerator and poured their water through a net and into a jar underneath. That water was then poured through a fine mesh sieve (or a brine shrimp net or a handkerchief or even a coffee filter). The adults were then put back in their water (or fed to the adult killies). The small number of baby brine shrimp in the sieve were rinsed and fed. Because of debris with the baby shrimp, including a few small snails is a good idea.
 
You may also run your finger along the flake food dust which gathers on the side of flake food containers. That may be taken.
 
"Old-timers" in the literature (b.b.s. - before brine shrimp) will often speak of using pond water for fry. Or they would take a very fine meshed net and sweep it through a pond, sorting out the larger creatures for other fishes. It is risky in that you do not know what is being swept up in the net. Still, it might be a possibility.
 
A last thought - if you live in a part of the world where it is still warm enough to have mosquitos laying eggs... Find some standing water and look for what appears to be little slivers of charcoal scrapped by a fingernail. The tiny piece of "charcoal" are mosquito egg rafts and will often contain over 100 mosquito eggs which will hatch out into tiny, soft-bodied creatures (actually much smaller than the baby artemia) which will soon hatch out in the aquarium. They are relished by the lineatus.
 
Indeed in nature, mosquitos must be high on the priority list for lineatus - a fish with a mouth ideally made for surface feeding and an angled dorsal fin, so that the fish can hover right at the surface tension line. In India, according to one source, they are used in the rice paddies for mosquito control. Certainly they find their way into those waters.
 
That also indicates that, unlike many killies, lineatus are comfortable at temperatures such as 80 degrees F or 27 degrees C and more. However at the higher temperatures, their metabolism increases and they are even more ravenous.
 
By the way, is would take those mosquitos several days to a week to grow up and emerge from the tank to threaten one's relationships with others in the household, so you have time to observe the tank.
 
Good luck! Let us know how you made out!
 
All the best!
 
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Jorge-Ernesto Colombo
To: killietalk at aka_org
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 9:06 AM
Subject: Apl.. lineatus

Dear all,
Unexpectedly I've lost my artemia culture and I have to feed my Apl.. lineatus fry, they are swimming since yesterday, chicken egg yolk can work for a couple of days??

any help will be appreciated

Jorge

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