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[Killietalk] Re: Killietalk Digest, Vol 10, Issue 16

Message: 3
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 07:45:18 -0700
From: Wright Huntley <whuntley at verizon_net>
Subject: Re: J. floridae (was [Killietalk] Conditioning breeders)
To: killifish discussion list <killietalk at aka_org>

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Subsequent to that article, I have bred a number of different pupfish,
and found that the most effective spawning material was a sunken wad of
filter floss that a male usually "adopted" as his own and flashed the
girls to get them to wallow with him in it. In a big tank, the other
males gave him room, but he was eager to have any females join him in
his "pillow." Amazing how easy it is to see and pick amber eggs from
white polyester pillow-stuffing (aka filter floss at 1/10 the price). :-)

I have had a pair of the flagfish in two of my 29G heavily planted tanks, and while the pair would hang out together, I never saw them make any spawning motions and certainly never saw any eggs. I figured there were too many egg-predators in there for them to have a chance (MTS, shrimp, cichlids, cories, other killies) so wanted to pull them out and give them a chance in a quieter environment. To avoid the MTS, I put them first in a 3G tank with lots and lots of java moss (thinking they'd lay eggs in the moss, and I'd pull that out to put in another tank for raising fry), and fed a variety of foods including lots of spirulina flake and herbivore pellets, but they didn't do anything, and no eggs or fry were seen in the java moss.

Then I read the spawning articles again and decided to give them a gravel substrate to try to see if they'd like that, but they aren't having any of that either.

This weekend the fish I got at the MASI auction will be done with quarantine and can be moved from the q-tank, so I can try giving the flagfish their own 3G honeymoon tank with gravel, plants, and some filter floss.....and a slightly higher temperature.

And maybe a little romantic music?


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