Re: [Killietalk] Couple of questions

["Al Anderson" <augustand at sbcglobal_net>]

They like to eat wood and need the fiber in their diets like you need your 
brocolli.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Payne" <paynedds at earthlink_net>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Couple of questions


> Bev Doyle, who passed away a year or so ago, produced farrowellas on a
> regular basis in her angel/discus operation near Newark, Ohio. She had a
> spring water source and all her tanks were flow-through, so water
> parameters were constant and fresh. She always had blanched vegetable
> matter for them to munch on, mostly zucchini and cukes. They were
> produced from groups of adults, 5-6/ tank. The male seemed to protect
> the egg mass that looked like caraway seeds on the glass, and he would
> "crack" the eggs when they matured to release the fry. Great
> glass-cleaners, but, as Bev told me, that's not enough to support them.
> I had them in several plant spawning killie tanks and they did not seem
> to affect the egg production in mops, so I doubt they ate eggs. Mostly
> vegetarian diet.
>
> Now I know why I couldn't keep them going. I changed 40-50% of the water
> weekly in my tanks.
>
> Tom Payne,
> gloomy Galena, Ohio
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