Re: Tank Tops--also A. australe and lighting

["William Ruyle" <forest at copper_net>]

I forgot to look at your email address: Shawinigan Canada? Just a guess.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Birgit McKinnon" <birgit.mckinnon at shaw_ca>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: Tank Tops--also A. australe and lighting


> Hi Bill,
>
> Your plight with A. australe has prompted me to advance from killitalk
> lurker to participant.  I have a 15 gallon tank full of these fish and I'm
> doing nothing special.  I just took a TDS reading of 450 mS and a finger
dip
> tells me the temperature is 73 or 74F.  I'm thinking about doing a water
> change because its been almost three months now.  I used to have a single
40
> watt fluorescent light over the tank but the ballast went a few weeks ago
> and I haven't yet replaced it.  Fortunately, the tank is directly under a
> small window and the light is sufficient to keep the dense java fern and
> java moss going nicely.  I feed them bbs and brine shrimp flake twice a
day
> and white worms once every week or two.  Fry appear regularly.  The water
> change I'm about to do will be with tap water of about 200 ppm hardness.
> Just food for thought...
>
> If it's any consolation, I'm having your problem with A. hera.  I've
managed
> to raise one fry, a female, and I found that one in the tank with the
> adults.  I've tried everything and, quite frankly, I look ridiculous in
the
> feathered headdress.
>
> Birgit McKinnon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Ruyle" <forest at copper_net>
> To: <killietalk at aka_org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Tank Tops--also A. australe and lighting
>
>
> > Alas, but no, Scott. I had an "over 50 moment" as Patrick Coleman would
> say
> > and hit the "send" button rather than the "reply" one. Subject change:
> >
> > As others have used compact fluorescent lighting for their
> > killie tanks, I'm wondering if the light is too strong for A.
> > australe eggs--even with fairly dense covering of duckweek and water
> > lettuce. I've managed to raise one
> > female to maturity, and that's all. I've tried just about everything,
all
> > manner of tweaking water chemistry, filtering with peat, wearing
feathered
> > headdresses, smearing face and body with goose fat, incantations, flash
> > powder, but I digress: in sum, I love the species but it's an
> > unrequited love when it comes to breeding. And I'm thinking, "maybe it's
> the
> > lighting," something macro instead of micro.
> > Bill
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Lewis" <ScottWmLewis at attbi_com>
> > To: <killietalk at aka_org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: Tank Tops
> >
> >
> > > William Ruyle wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Bob Woth" <bwoth at bellsouth_net>
> > > > To: <killietalk at aka_org>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:02 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: Tank Tops
> > > >
> > > > > When the acrylic bows turn it over. It's never ending but works. I
> > tend to
> > > > use
> > > > > heavy duck
> > > > > weed cover and egg crate grid. For jumpers wrap the egg crate with
> > window
> > > > > screen. I use
> > > > > that on my Rivulus.
> > > > > Bob
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > Did you add anything new to this thread???
> > >
> > > I am not sure if it is me and my mail reader or what.  All I can
> > > find is quoted material in your post.  I'm using a rather old
> > > reader that -tries- to separate the quoted material and the new
> > > material.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Scott
> > >
> > > -- Microsoft Outlook, the hacker's path to your hard disk.
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