Re: Sand spam

[LeeH920226 at aol_com]

In a message dated 1/2/03 4:53:44 PM, bjc3 at cornell_edu writes:

<< you could try using one of those wide mouth gravel vacuum 
devices, which will suck up the eggs but not the gravel, as long as you can 
collect the siphoned material.

Possibly a few eggs do get damaged. If you collect hundreds, what would the 
loss of a few matter? My experience with fine sand is that it damages most 
of the eggs.

I can only tell you that Rosario LaCorte, an infamously successful fish 
breeder, is said to swear by this technique, and I know others have used 
it. As I said, I am a peat man and have not tried it myself.>>

Barry,
    Actually I have watched Rosario do this and he siphons gravel and eggs 
into a bucket and then swirls the net above the sand to catch the lighter 
eggs. I also prefer peat, but he has collected and raised 10's of thousands 
of killifish by this technique.


Lee Harper
Media, PA 
USA
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