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Re: Minimum Tanks

On 2 Nov 2001, at 8:34, Charles Stewart wrote:

> I noticed RJ mentioned 30 tanks as a minimum for keeping killies. What
> is the minimum for keeping just one species and what size tanks?? 

Depends: do you want a continous flow of fry or just 
parents and a few fry at any one time?

If you want a fish production line you would need as 
many tanks as is needed to grow the fish up to maturity 
+ the breeding tank for the parents (assuming you are 
going to pick eggs of mops).

If you just want to maintain a species 1 or 2 tanks is 
fine. In many cases you can raise a fair number of fry 
with the parents. In others you would have to seperate 
the eggs and fry from the parents.

Examples of iether species is: Fp. gardneri (good 
continuous maintenance fish) and Aph. australe (some 
strains) as a fish which needs some working...

Hope this helps.

By the way, I don't have 30 tanks and maintain 19+ 
species of non- and annuals.

Bye
Tyrone Genade
tyronegenade at yahoo_com
http://www.tyronegenade.0catch.com

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