Re: [Killietalk] Notho surprise

["John N. Alegre" <lists at johnalegre_net>]

On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:50, Pjeversman at aol_com wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2004 I collected a bag of peat from my N. guentheri. and put it
>  in storage.  When it was time to wet the  peat, I already had two  batches
> of guenth's and didn't need any more fry. So, I ignored them.   On Nov 30 I
> decided to wet the peat, just for grins :).  On Dec 1, I  had 3-4 fry
> swimming around.  That was an 11 month incubation period!   I still have a
> few bags of peat lying around.  I may try to see how long I  can stretch
> out the time and still get fish.
>
I'm sure Brian will make a comment here, so I don't really want to say too 
much, but there is some effect of how aerobic or anaerobic your peat is when 
you first dry it.  

Brian presented some data at the convention and I have been experimenting, 
mainly out of my strong tendency toward procrastination.  Being lazy about 
collecting your peat appears to widen your hatch window.  I have started to 
collect once every 6 weeks on species that I am not trying to put out in any 
quantity and indeed I am seeing such results.  Last week I got some foerschi 
fry out of a bag of peat that was 10 months old.  This peat was collected 
after I had been down recovering from knee replacement surgery last December 
and had been in the tank for about 8 weeks.

John Alegre


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