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Re: [Killietalk] Was finding eggs in peat, now finding (catching) fryin peat

I do something similar. I cut a 1" hole in the side of a margarine tub, about 1/4 from the top. Place the peat in, put the cover on and immerse in a tank. The fry swim to the light. There always seems to be a few fry that like the dark, so you have to open it up and get the last few out.


Nick Ternes
Port Washington, WI
WAKO
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----Original Message Follows----
From: Daniel Katz <dskatz at optonline_net>
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To: killifish discussion list <killietalk at aka_org>
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Was finding eggs in peat, now finding (catching) fryin peat
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 09:09:51 -0500

Hi Jim, my solution to separating the fry from peat or coconut fiber is simple- let the fry swim out:

I wet my peat (or coconut fiber) in a glass jar which is shaped like a drum bowl. After the fry hatch, I place the jar in a water-filled 2 gallon plastic tank and tip the jar so that the peat stays in the jar, but the fry can swim out. After about a day or two, the great majority of the fry have left the jar. I then remove the jar and I use a baster to suck out the few remaining fry.

Dan Katz


----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Rae" <jimrae at pe_net>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:44 PM
Subject: [Killietalk] Was finding eggs in peat,now finding (catching) fry in peat


Hi everyone on the list! Question:

Heck with finding the eggs in peat, how do you remove the fry when they
hatch out?

I had hatched some F. fallax earlier this summer and found it somewhat
difficult to remove them. With a strong flashlight I could see them fine,
but it took me forever sucking them up with a baster and transfering them to
a growout container. But that was nothing to what I have now. I
experimented with some coco peat as substrate for some of my tanks - F.
gardneri Misaje and F. spoorenbergi - and removed it in late July. A week
and a half ago I wet the peat and many hatched but I find it many times more
dificult to get these fry than fallax since they are much smaller, and they
dart into the peat when I approach them with the baster while the fallax fry
tended to remain still for longer allowing me to slowly suck them up in the
baster without getting all kinds of peat in the baster. I've heard people
say just skim them up at the surface with a spoon or the like but they stay
down on the deck for the most part.

I am using shoe boxes for wetting the peat, filling them about to about an
inch below the top.  The peat is probably a half inch or so in depth.

Any suggestions for giving my back and neck a break?  i.e. are there more
effective ways?

Thanks

Jim Rae



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