Re: [Killietalk] How do you breed your mop spwners?

["J. C." <hillbillynursery at yahoo_com>]

 No it is sort of like storing gardneri in damp peat.
The fry do not hatch until you place the mop into
water. The A lineatus(golden wonders) need a wetter
mop but still no water in the bottom of the bag bag.
It just saves a step of moving the eggs to wet peat
for storage to get the fry to hatch all at once. The
gardneri I had good results hatching 2 weeks spawn at
the same time. 3 to 4 days per mop as you need to dry
the eggs down so they develope slower on the mop. Like
most methods you have to play with it a bit to get
good at it. The golden wonders worked for a weeks
spawn(harvested twice) at once but they would not
stretch to 2 weeks worth of spawn for one hatching
without large losses of the first weeks batch. I love
it as I do not have fry hatching daily. I have a large
hatch at one time(well depends on how many eggs are
being laid).

 Here is David's site:
http://www.djramsey.com/tropfish/picking_eggs_mop_peat.htm

 That page has the info on it how to do this method. I
had to work with it a bit to get the golden wonders to
work. The A. australes seem to work just like the
gardneri so far(only one batch of fry).

--- Wayne Morrow <cwmorrow at gbronline_com> wrote:

> Now wait a sec. Are the fry flopping around in a
> baggie with a damp mop 
> and little water?
> Wayne
> 



		
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