RE: [Killietalk] raising fry

["Al Anderson" <killiman at iquest_net>]

Lee knows how to feed his fish.

killiman at iquest_net
Al Anderson
6246 N Rural
Indianapolis IN 46220
317 253 2170

-----Original Message-----
From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org]On
Behalf Of LeeH920226 at aol_com
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:31 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] raising fry


In a message dated 2/9/05 9:27:05 PM, Paul_Jablinski at notes.udayton.edu
writes:

<<
Maybe someone can help me.  I have just hatched out four different species
of killies.  I would like them to grow fast.  I have the fry now in shoe
boxes.  I put about 30 fry in each box.  First, is that too many fry in
each box?  Secondly, if I kept that many in each box, how often would I
have to change their water for them to grow fast, and not be stunted for
lack of space.  And if I fed them twice a day on micro worms and brine
shrimp, how often would I need to change their water? >>

I ran an experiment once with Austrolebias bellottii fry in shoe boxes.
Everything was identical with about a dozen fry in each. In one box, I
manually
changed the water about 30% every other day, my usual practice which
sometimes
was neglected. The other box I hooked up to my automatic water changing
system.
It was changed about 20% twice a day. The fry in the shoebox that was
changed
twice a day grew three times as fast as the other box. Not statistically
sound, but enough to convince me to hook up every container I possibly could
to
automatic water changing. In another experiment I ran at the same time I had
3
Aphyosemion australe fry in a similar shoe box hooked up for automatic water
changes as above. In three months those fry turned into a trio which were
producing young in the shoe box.

Lee Harper
Media, PA USA

To join the AKA see http://www.aka.org/pages/join.html
Archives are at http://fins.actwin.com/killietalk/


To join the AKA see http://www.aka.org/pages/join.html
Archives are at http://fins.actwin.com/killietalk/