Re: Lay up over peat

["Donna M. Recktenwalt" <dmrecktenwalt at prodigy_net>]

Hi Dave -

    When I bred Blue Gularis (several years ago), I simply ran the wet peat through a net, squeezed the peat as dry as I could with my hands, then plopped the resulting mass into a plastic zip-lock bag. I fluffed the peat up some at that point and looked to see if I could see any eggs (sometimes I could, sometimes I couldn't), made certain that there was air in the bag, sealed it and it and put it away.

    In most cases, hatches were good using this technique, and breeding trios over peat for a week in a 5 gal. tank.

    Hope the input helps - they're nice fish.

donna

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From: David French

To: killietalk at aka_org

Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 12:29 PM

Subject: Lay up over peat

A am rather an rookie with killies.  I am trying to breed my blue gularis.  I have read that a good method of handeling the eggs is to lay them up over peat for 1.5 months.  I am a bit unclear as to what is meant by "lay up over peat".  How damp should the peat be,  rather dry as for annuals or more damp.  Any advice would be welcome.

Thanks,

Dave French

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