Re: [Killietalk] arnoldi story

[Wright Huntley <whuntley at verizon_net>]

The *Paludopanchax* sub genus seems to have always had some kind or 
other of breeding problems.

My current hypothesis is that maybe we are not always starting with 
males and females all of the same species. A little DNA detective work 
seems to be called for. Good student project?

Wright


RuevenM at aol_com wrote:

> Hi Ed,
>
>      Wow that's a good one -- sorry for the stress. At least the batesii were 
> easy and they are suppose to be the tough ones! There is something very very 
> odd with arnoldi eggs and it seems to have always been this way. I guess that 
> is one reason they never stay in the hobby. I guess we have to think of them 
> like N. furzeri with incubation times all over the map. Maybe like zonatus and 
> hoignei they need warmth -- 80F in peat storage. Being in Texas maybe mine 
> were stored warmer although I did not use an incubator like with zonatus and 
> hoignei. There just seems to be alot of reports on arnoldi eggs so maybe we should 
> start raising a warning flag?
>
> Bobby
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