I've got about 8 pair of mature Aphyosemion bivittatum Funge available myself, the location code was listed as C91 but that seems a tad brief... Also have a few fish that I believe you bred and put in the box exchange with NW Killies, so I can give you back your line of spoorenbergi :) which I very much appreciate thank you very much. Great fish, much more colorful than in pictures. I am not a huge breeder myself but would rather do a few fish well than have a whole bunch of fish and just babysit them because I don't have time to really take good care of them. Dot, sometimes it's tempting to go hog wild and get every last species, and I have done it, but that seems too much like something I would have to attend a 12 step meeting over :) So I say good for you if you just do one or two species. I am trying to get back to just keeping a few species so I can have more spare time. Don't really remember what that is anymore:) My funge did nothing about reproduction or produced infertile eggs for months and then went on a breeding spree. I moved to a different city, maybe the liked the water here better (Olympia: It's the water). Anyways, all of a sudden they bred like crazy and I had too many. So if you really want a lot of them they may reciprocate in spades sometime soon... I think they may have fragile eggs that don't do well with handling. I was pulling the mops with the eggs and incubating the mops in plastic boxes in distilled water when I started getting the eggs to hatch. Don't know if the parents' fertility was the issue or my handling of the eggs, but most of the eggs I had picked with my fingers rotted. Good luck settling in Wright, moving stinks! Congrats on the job.
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:58:54 -0700 From: "True Chameleon" <dotkolo at hotmail_com> Subject: Wright's Funge babies
Save me some baby
Funges for when I can keep fish again (soon, I hope).
Wright,
I actually have some babies, one from the pair I got at BAKA and six from eggs from aquabid.
My only killi is Funge, so there is zero chance of mixing. I know I am not setting the world on fire with my breeding skills, but I at least haven't killed these off. :-)
Let me know when you are in the area and I will give you a pair and a spare.
Regards, Dot
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