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RE: Minimum Tanks


Hi Folks,


After I sent that message I thought that someone might pick up the part
about 30 tanks. Although it was not the object of the message I would like
to address it here. I am not actually sure that there are ever enough tanks
to do killifish properly. It seems no matter how many I set up I seem to
need more.

Sometimes it is because my fish overproduce and I need more space. Like the
150 unsexed RAC I currently have in a 45 gal tank. Not counting the hundreds
of eggs I have unhatched. Other times my tank shortage happens when I see a
super new fish and I cant stop my hand from bouncing up at an auction. Or
when my cute little Fp Fallax stopped being quite so little and needed to
stretch out in a larger tank.

Maybe poor planning has something to do with it. On the other hand I must
say that I recently stopped by a club members home and delivered a couple
pairs of fish to him. He had to put them into temporary containers. He was
short on space, because he only had about 100 fish tanks.

I was not trying to address the question of just how few or how many tanks
it takes to maintain one species. I have actually heard rumors of fish being
maintained without fish tanks. There was apparently a fellow who raised
several riv. species in shoe boxes alone.

I would not recommend the overuse of dish wash detergent. Eventually you are
likely to cut a corner and not rinse whatever you are washing well enough.
The results are not likely to be desirable.  In the case of many injection
molded plastics the molds are oiled before the plastic is injected.
Detergent removes the oil and is less toxic that many other solvents I can
think of.


Best regards,

~RJ~

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-killietalk at aka_org [mailto:owner-killietalk at aka_org]On
Behalf Of Tyrone Genade
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 10:21 AM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: 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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