Re: Hatching Nothobranchius and etc.

[Daniel Katz <dskatz at optonline_net>]

Hi Bob, I'd love to hear your results after you've tried the "pressure
hatching" a few times.  I think that you'll get both better and faster
hatches.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: <Rjga at aol_com>
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Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: Hatching Nothobranchius and etc.


> In a message dated 4/23/03 9:23:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> dskatz at optonline_net writes:
>
>
> > Hi Lee, unfortunately, the only data I have on the advantages of
pressure
> > hatching are anecdotal.  I have had 25+ years of bad or slow hatching
when
> > I
> > put bags of peat with eggs in a small container with 3 or 4 inches of
water
> > depth.  Adding a fresh peat pellet helped, but not enough.  Now, I dump
a
> > bag of peat and eggs in a jar, fill it with water and peat extract, cap
it
> > loosely and put it in the bottom of my 55 gallon tank.  I get hatches
> > almost
> > 100% of the time, and always within 3 hours.  Even though I don't
> > understand
> > the mechanism, it's now my standard hatching method.
> > Dan
> >
> >
>
> Well Dan, anecdotal or not, my hatch failure rate is high enough that I'll
> try anything. So instead of shoe boxes next time, I'll try using glass
jars
> with loose caps and putting them in the bottom of my (very cool) barrel of
RO
> water. If you're getting hatches nearly 100% of the time, then that's
> certainly worth trying. If it doesn't work for me, then other factors are
at
> work in my fish room.
>
> Robert J. Goldstein, Ph.D.
> Robert J. Goldstein & Associates, Inc.
> Environmental Consultants
> 8480 Garvey Drive
> Raleigh, NC 27616 USA
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>
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