RE: Picking Epiplaty eggs (was Re: Epiplatys baroi 'Bidou')

["David Lains" <david at zfin_org>]

Last spring I picked up a new strain of E dag mon that has a location code.
All my old dag mon are now gone because their few eggs would disintegrated
all the time.  I thought they were an infertile pair.  I tried swapping out
males and females but to no avail.  The strain was bad.

These new guys give me ~100 eggs a week and you can pick several eggs at a
time almost man handling them with zero problems.  The fry hatch in swarms!
Unlike any dag mon I've ever had and they also through great sex ratios in
the first few that are sexing out.

The person who watched them for a few weeks after the WCW has the fry in a
bunch of tanks because he moved java moss around...

Best Fishes
David

><{{{>-----Original Message-----
><{{{>From: owner-killietalk at AKA_Org [mailto:owner-killietalk at AKA_Org]On
><{{{>Behalf Of Allen and Sandra
><{{{>Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:28 AM
><{{{>To: KillieTalk at AKA_Org
><{{{>Subject: RE: Picking Epiplaty eggs (was Re: Epiplatys baroi 'Bidou')
><{{{>
><{{{>
><{{{>I used to pick Ep. dageti Monroviae eggs and all of them
><{{{>hatched. I had
><{{{>hundreds of them.  No hand washing or anything.  Ignorance
><{{{>was bliss.  I
><{{{>also bred them in super hard water (about 800 uS.)  Maybe the
><{{{>hard water had
><{{{>something to do with it.  I did the same with Ep. Chap. 'Angona', Ep.
><{{{>lamottei 'Koule', and a slough of others, the only ones that
><{{{>I had problems
><{{{>picking eggs with was ANN.
><{{{>
><{{{>FWIW,
><{{{>Boat
><{{{>
><{{{>Tyrone said--------
><{{{>I never got the eggs I picked from my dageti to develop. They would
><{{{>always die. I get the impression that Epiplatys eggs are pretty
><{{{>sensitive.
><{{{>
><{{{>
><{{{>Allen "Boat" Boatman
><{{{>Lutz, FL
><{{{>TBAS, SKS, AKA 08298, SAA 96, CRLCA, NANFA
><{{{>
><{{{>It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many
><{{{>people have
><{{{>tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever
><{{{>you're doing, it's
><{{{>your first attempt at it.
><{{{>~ Wally Amos ~
><{{{>
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