Re: Notho. Guentheri eggs

["Joseph Ponnath" <jponnath at hotmail_com>]

April 1, 2003

Hi Mike,
I put away some N. Guentheri eggs on the 13th and 14th of October, 2002. Normally they will take from 8 to 12 weeks to develop. Mine were also between 64 and 68 degrees. When I tried to hatch them in January there was nothing, nada, zip. I could see some undeveloped eggs so I put the bags of eggs in a fish bag and floated them in a 75 degree tank. I tried again in 4 weeks and got hatches of 50 fry and 60 fry. 
I have not noticed a difference myself whether there was air in the bags or not. I usually store mine with no air.
Most of the eggs will hatch within 12 hours. After 24 hours I redry the eggs and put them away for another 2 to 4 weeks and try to hatch again. I usually get a few more fry.

Redry your eggs and store them for 4 weeks at 75 to 80 degrees F. Put the peat in your container and add water from your tank, don't submerge in the tank. You will probably get fry.
To redry your peat, get a coffee filter and pour the peat/eggs into the filter. Then squeeze the water out and place the ball of peat in the bag. Gently loosen the peat until it is loose like pipe tobacco (about that dryness is right also). Place the peat in the bag and seal it. At this time you may be able to see eggs through the bag. They stand out fairly well from the dark peat.
Hope that helps. If you want to contact me off list with other questions.

Take care,
Joe in St. Louis (AKA 5414)







>From: "M. LeDuc" 


>Reply-To: killietalk at aka_org 

>To: killietalk at aka_org 

>Subject: Notho. Guentheri eggs 

>Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:22:22 -0800 (PST) 

> 

>Quick question... 

> 

>I purchased these eggs from a reputable killie 

>breeder/keeper back in October. (I didn't know 

>anything about killies/AKA/etc back then) 

> 

>They were picked around 10/15/02. Packaged very well. 

> 

>When I opened them back on 3/22/03 the peat was still 

>moist. I couldn't visibly see any eggs though. I 

>also didn't see any fungus. I'm not sure how much 

>oxygen was allowed in the bags though... they weren't 

>sealed like a ziplock, but they were fairly well 

>taped. 

> 

>I placed both peat bags in a tuperware box with an 

>opening in the lid,submerged the box in a cycled/aged 

>tank, and waited about 10 days.. no sign of fry. 

> 

>Could the eggs been in storage to long? Could the 

>eggs of gone bad? They were stored at around 60-70F 

>and for the majority of the time they were kept i nthe 

>dark. 

> 

>I'm just looking for possible reasons I didn't get any 

>fry. 

>(FYI, the seller was I believe an AKA member, but the 

>eggs were purchased from him via aquabid - at the time 

>of purchase I didn't know about the AKA...) 

> 

>Thanks for any ideas/suggestions. 

> 

>-Acton Mike 

> 

> 

> 

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