RE: [Killietalk] Filter for gardneri

["Earl Blewett" <Micro at earlblewett_net>]

>>as i mentioned earlier in the month i am going to start a well planted 10
ga.
tank with 2 pairs f. garnderi.  WHAT TYPE OF FILTER SHOULD I USE?

Dear Matt,

I have my garderni (or Fp. nigerianus Makurdi, depending on the taxonomy you
follow) in a planted 10 gallon. I have an undergravel gravel filter driven
by a powerhead. There is a lot of current. I have found that it is less
important whether you have a foam filter (I strongly favour Azoo filters see
Drs. Foster & Smith) versus undergravel but how much plant cover you have. I
have Salvinia and Najas right now and produce quite a few fry. I am too lazy
to put collect eggs and my fish spawn everywhere but the mop. I had
excellent production when I had Java moss.

Another tip, when I started taking water from mid-tank instead of cleaning
the gravel with a extension, my  fry production went up four fold.

A final thing about Fp fry in general. The parents are usually pretty good
about not eating fry but the larger fry will either out compete or bully the
smaller fry. My solution is to take any fry that I can net out of the tank
when I see it. If it is too small and slides through the mesh of the net, it
isn't a problem.

It is worth catching and raising fry, if just in a 1 gallon ice cream pail.
Although GAR aren't worth posting on aquabid etc., I took a young male and 3
females to a local "real" pet store and they were happy to exchange them for
a can of cyclopeeze, sticker price $11.

Further meanderings

It is worth raising excess fry. I have been giving killies away at the state
aquarium club to encourage interest in these fish. Between Bob Alston and
myself we have saturated Oklahoma with N. korthausae Mafia Island TAN 02-05.
I have >250 of weekold N. eggersi Ruhoi Red (AS) fry right now and will be
taking a lot down to the next OK City AC meeting next weekend to give away.
I see one of my "victims" is now an AKA member and on killietalk as well.
Hi, Kyle and Monica.

There are a lot of different "right" ways to raise a colony of Fp. gardneri.

Good luck,

Earl


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Earl Blewett Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Oklahoma State University
Center for Health Sciences
College of Osteopathic Medicine
1111 W 17 St. Tulsa, OK 74107

Email:   micro at earlblewett_net
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-----Original Message-----
From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org]On
Behalf Of Matt Shelton
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 1:30 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: [Killietalk] Filter for gardneri


Hey guys and gals,

  I REALIZE I
NEED A SPONGE FOR NOT LETTING THE FRY GET SUCKED IN BUT WHAT KIND AND
MODEL???
i HAVE A FULLY SUBMERSIBLE Tetra Whisper for a a 10 ga.  Any ideas would be
helpful


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