[Killietalk] arnoldi story

[Allan <Ed_Dantes at linkline_com>]

> Here is another story on how I got arnoldi fry.


I received my arnoldi from Bobby, (thanks for the frustration, hopefully 
one day I can get even with you ;).

Bobby sent me 3 pairs, I put peat in with them right away and started 
collecting eggs.  After 2 weeks I would place the peat in water and wait a 
few days nothing happened.  After a week I would dry the peat and try again 
after 2 weeks, and then try again.  This would go on till week 11 where I 
would just reuse the peat again.  I did this for about 6 months before I 
gave up.  I never got a single fry the entire time.

Here goes for the fun part.

After my last bag of peat had been wet at 11 weeks I put the peat in with 
some Nothos.  I took the peat out after several weeks and dried the peat 
for 8 weeks.  When I put the peat into the water I got about 20 fry.   I 
figured that they were all Notho's.

After about 2 months it was pretty obvious that there were 2 different 
species of fish in the tank.  As it turned out I have 2/3's of the fish are 
Arnoldi and the remaining are Nothos.

Those arnoldi eggs  went 11 weeks as arnoldi and then another 8 as 
Nothos.   You guys can figure out what happened but I think that I will let 
my arnoldi go closer to 20 weeks before wetting them next time I have adults.

Allan

Just my $.02 worth.



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