Re: [Killietalk] "Where Have All The Killies Gone"

["Ron @ FAR EAST" <ronwill at starhub_net.sg>]

> From: Barry Cooper <bjc3 at centurytel_net>
> My point is that eggs collected soon after short spawning
> periods will typically have shorter incubation periods than those collected
> from peat that has been in the tanks for weeks (or in my tanks, sometimes,
> months).

Dear Dr Cooper,

Sorry if I don't comprehend it all, but why would it be so?  Don't eggs
begin some sort of embroyl development even while they're, for lack of a
better word, embedded in submerged peat?

Going by what you've said, would _intentionally_ leaving these submersed
eggs (for months) be a way to delay/extend hatching time?  Won't the
eggs develope fungus?

Regards,
Ronnie Lee
Singapore

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