Re: Moving Fish to another Tank

[Alberto Restrepo Ubach <restrepo at sandiego_edu>]

Tom,

I incubated Epiplatys annulatus eggs that came from very (very) soft 
water in my San Diego water which runs about 450 ppm hardness, and 
the hatch rate was very high.  I don't incubate eggs in straight San 
Diego water any more --I'm not sure exactly why, except that I'm not 
supposed to-- but from my own experience, limited as it may be, some 
if not most of the elberti eggs that are left behind in your 300 ppm 
water will hatch.

Alberto
San Diego
AKA 08000



At 2:35 PM -0500 2/25/03, The Cooks wrote:
>HI All,
>
>Tom Cook here in frigid Cincinnati.  I am moving some juvenile
>Aphyosemion elberti that have started to sex out into a larger tank to
>make room for another batch of elberti from a different location. The
>water is aged tap at approx. 300ppm TDS. My question is: Do I have to
>worry about eggs in the plants hatching and mixing up  my strains, or
>will the high TDS prevent ANY eggs from hatching?  I would rather not
>move the plants if I can be assured that they will not mix up my
>separate strains.
>
>Thanks,
>Tom Cook
>AKA #6697, GCKA
>
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