RE: Notho. leukei

["Tyrone Genade" <tgenade at sdf_lonestar.org>]

Brian R. Watters said:

> N. luekei are VERY fussy eaters

Which is why pea soup green water is wholy inadequate in my opinion...

> and I do not believe they will take any
> food that is not live. There must be something other than the No-BS that
> they are consuming.

I suspect that they may be feeding more on the recycled No-BS (No-BS eaten
by snail, snail deficates, feaces=> infusoria) but they do seem to get
more active right after I add the No-BS and they do seem to skim the
surface under the dust rafts of No-BS. Perhaps they are feeding on the
paramecium that follow the scent of the food. I don't know. What I do know
is the fry grow.

> They also slowly descend after a few days if they are not getting enough
> food - they starve and grow weak.

Mine are still at the surface. They should start descending later this
week and then I will start feeding bbs.

>> P.P.P.S Just fishing: anyone out there still have kafuensis "Kayuni
>> ZAM 97/1"??? Anyone at all?
>>
>
> I do not believe this population is still in the hobby. However, the ZAM
> 97-9 population is.

One can always hope... Neil Nathan mentioned he still had it but I just
can't get an answer from him...

Thanks for the input.

Tyrone Genade

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