Re: [Killietalk] RE: Fungus grazing Asellus now egg incubation and algae eating shrimps

[David Sanchez <barbax2 at yahoo_com>]

I adopted my technique from a few members of the
Killies.com forum. It is all archived there so I
suggest you see for yourself what they do. However
since you asked what I do I will see if I can answer
that. I have a few heavily planted tanks devoid of all
life just plants. I place a plastic container in these
tanks with a 150-micron screen on the sides as to
allow the free flow of water in and out. The water in
the tank is peat and oak leaf treated. I add a few
sprigs of Java moss to the container and I then add
eggs I collect from a spawning. I separate my prs and
then spawn them once or twice a week. I add a couple
of Japanese black shrimp, or that what they were
called when I purchased them anyway. These I have had
excellent results with. They clean the eggs and will
not eat the good eggs. I also allow a flow of water
from an irrigation spray to drip in from above the
container. I beleive Whright also advocates the use of
snails which I have not as of yet tried. I can tell
you make sure to experiemnt with a few eggs first as
not all shrimps will work like for example the North
American Ghost shrimp will eat eggs and even small
fish!

Dave sanchez



--- Joe Scanlan <drkillinut at charter_net> wrote:

> David Please educate us with your techniques.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Sanchez" <barbax2 at yahoo_com>
> To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] RE: Fungus grazing Asellus
> 
> 
> >I am experimenting with several species of small
> algae
> > eating shrimp to aid in egg incubation. I learned
> of
> > this at www.killies.com forums. SO far I am very
> > impressed with the results. Our killie friends in
> Asia
> > have some very cool techniques I have come to
> adopt
> > myself.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > --- "Koran, David HQ02"
> > <David_Koran at hq02.usace.army.mil> wrote:
> >
> >> When I attended the AKFB Convention last year I
> >> visited Marc Bogarts and
> >> stayed with Henri DeBruyn where they showed me
> the
> >> use of some of our "pests"
> >> to aid in the fishroom.  In Marc's set up he had
> >> active Asellus cultures in
> >> his breeding tanks.  Asellus I think are referred
> to
> >> as "fish lice" but in
> >> the killie tanks they scavenged his mops and fed
> on
> >> the fungused or bad eggs
> >> and didn't seem to be making a dent in his egg
> >> production.  Henri introduced
> >> copepods (ostropods?) into his fry containers. 
> It
> >> was not that the fry ate
> >> the copepods but he fed a mix of very small
> daphnia,
> >> microworms and newly
> >> hatched brine shrimp into his stacks of fry
> >> containers (my memory is a little
> >> foggy but many of these containers were plastic
> >> boxes with a hole near the
> >> top so you inserted the dropper in each and gave
> it
> >> a few drops or a squirt).
> >> What the copepods did was scavenge the uneaten
> brine
> >> shrimp and microworms
> >> making the time between water changes longer.
> >>
> >> Dave Koran
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: "wusong" <wusong at drunkenbastards_com>
> >> Subject: RE: [Killietalk] maroxy
> >> To: killifish discussion list
> <killietalk at aka_org>
> >>
> >> Does anybody remember the old TFH article about
> >> Asellus (the common FW
> >> isopod) doing a good jod as "egg custodian" in
> >> aquariums?  It seems they
> >> attack fungus and leave healthy eggs alone.  If
> my
> >> memory serves me
> >> correctly, the article's author did quite a few
> >> trials and found Asellus
> >> significantly reduced egg mortality.
> >>
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