Re: Lamprichthys tanganacanus

[Joe Bulterman <jbulterman at yahoo_com>]

Adding magnesium in the form of Epson salts can cure the
sex ratio problem.  How it works, I don't know but it seems
to.  These fish do q
--- Daniel McMonigle <Mcdaphnia at msn_com> wrote:
> Hi, I raised hundreds of these, and several generations,
> however I eventually encountered an All-Female generation
> and  couldn't find any males at the time. My biggest
> problem was with a skewed sex ratio favoring females, and
> my attempts to solve the problem were too late. I could
> find no information on this problem with this fish. I
> kept them in very hard water with an 8.4 pH. I thought I
> should have raised the pH higher. I never got the chance,
> or at least I was reluctant to try available methods. I
> kept them in the mid to high seventies Fahrenheit.
> Experimenting with a higher temperature was on the agenda
> but never tried. From what I've heard temperature may be
> the key, but I don't know. I talked with someone who
> raised this fish and remembers having all males, but I
> didn't get any other information from him.
> 
>  I found one male per tank was best to diffuse
> aggression. Even in my biggest tank, a tank eight feet
> wide, three feet deep, and three and a half feet tall,
> males would find each other and do battle. They tend to
> lay eggs in the plastic crevices of a power head, so I
> attached a spawning "mop" of yarn strands fastened
> together with lots of rubber bands tight to the power
> head. I found they would lay eggs in the regular design
> of killie mop, but only in the part just under the band
> where it's tied together. Favorite food is live Daphnia
> which I kept in with them as much as possible. Daphnia
> were fed a mix of veggies fortified with multivitamins
> and minerals before feeding to the fish. The killies
> would eat anything offered to other fish in with them.
> Fry would eat ground up flake food as a treat when the
> tank was bare of daphnia, but then after they ate the
> flake, I'd add daphnia and full tummies or not, the fry
> couldn't resist. There was no problem keeping breeders
> with mouth brooding cichlids (Tropheus) since the
> cichlids couldn't get the eggs out of the mops and the
> killies couldn't get the eggs out of the cichlids.
> 
> One thing I found that helped growth and prevented "big
> head" was to dose the tanks with an iodine solution
> designed for reef tanks at the dosage/frequency given for
> using in a reef tank. Some Tanganyikan fish develop this
> big head. The head grows, but the body stops and
> eventually the deformed fish dies. My water supply has no
> iodine in it, typical of many inland regions and of
> highly processed water supplies. If you are in a region
> where iodine is naturally present in your water supply
> for the fish, using iodine may be superfluous, but it's
> very very unlikely to harm anything as long as you keep
> the dosage reasonable.
> 
> I never have found any really thorough sites or articles
> on breeding and keeping this fish either. I do know they
> don't ship or show well. Importers were reluctant to get
> more males for me because of their past problems.
>   
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Lains
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 4:35 PM
> To: Northwestkillies@Yahoogroups. Com; killietalk at aka_org
> Subject: Lamprichthys tanganacanus
>   
> Hello All
> 
> I was just given 4, F1 Lamprichthys tanganacanus.  What
> is the favored
> method of spawning and egg collection?  Favorite foods,
> water parameters,
> tips or tricks for working with this fish?
> 
> Any good sites out there?  They seem to be some what
> lacking on the web.
> 
> Best Fishes
> David
> 
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