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Riv. sex ratios?
Hi RJ,
>Now to your friend with the males. Does he pull his eggs and incubate them
>in "tap" water?
Yes, he does pull the eggs ut and water incubate them. But the species he
works with is agilae, and I work with uropthalmus.
> You mention "your friend here"
>does this mean that he is near you, do you use the same water source?
Yes we share the same water.
>Finally can you tell us a little more about your water conditions, pH,
>Temp., etc.
I am one of those annoying people who hardly ever checks their tanks pH
etc. :)
I know the water comes out of the tap neutral and soft. And when I neglect my
water changes the water presumably goes abit on the acid side.
Temp: I rarely use heaters so the room temperature dictates the tanks temp.
Over a year period ( in which I collected the 17 fry; 16 female 1 male),
the temp
changed between 18 to 29 degrees Celcius. Therefore the sex determination
was not
temp influenced in this case (I guess).
I have been hatching quite a lot of Riv.cryptocallus eggs lately, which I
collect
and incubate in straight tap water (with chlorine and all :) ) and will be
recording the sex ratios of the fry in the coming months.
If I figure out how to collect the uropthalmus eggs that might also give an
interesting comparison.
Cheers,
Serkan
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