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SJO
I used to raise 100's of SJO. I kept the breeders separated unless they
were set up for spawning. They were kept in 10 gallon tanks. I used 3 females
to a male. The adults were conditioned on brine shrimp (live and frozen),
chopped, well-washed tubiflex, beef heart, earthworms and fruit flies. Beef
heart is a great, cheap food for gularis, both for conditioning and grow-out,
but do not overfeed as it makes them fat and pale. Feed the beef heart until
the stomach of the fish is full but not bulging beyond its natural line. Feed
it once a day at most when conditioning for a week or two and feed it maybe 4
times a week when used as a grow-out food. My beef heart mix contained green
peas, carrots, wheat germ, flake food, vitamins, gelatin and shrimp (at
times). To breed, I would set up a 5 gallon tank with an inch of boiled,
well-washed and previously unused peat. The females were placed in the tank
on Friday night and the male went in early Sat. morning. The tank had a box
filter filled with conditioned natural gravel and some filter floss. Spawning
started immediately and by Sat afternoon the females had gone from really fat
to totally thin. The male would now get rough as the females were spawned
out. I would get the male out then and put him back in his conditioning tank
and the females went back to their conditioning tank to heal and fill back up
with eggs. The adults were not fed once they were put in the breeding tank.
Their last feeding was always Friday morning for both sexes. After spawning,
the peat was siphoned out and allowed to dry to the point of a moist
chocolate cake feel. I stored the eggs at changing room temperature for 6
weeks and then hatched them. The largest batch was well over 300. I used
moderately hard and moderately alkaline water to breed, hatch and grow the
fry. I hope this helps.
Robert E.
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