Re: [Killietalk] no eggs from australes

["Edd \"Catfish\" Kray" <edd at catfishnthecrawlers_com>]

Point: this is the problem with an "organized" conservation, captive
breeding program. No matter how hard you try, sometimes the darn fish just
don't cooperate. You can go 10 generations with no problems and then all of
a sudden, they won't breed and the strain is lost. The one place they don't
refuse to breed is in their natural habitat...and even there the large
number of individuals of the species  makes that happen. I'm sure even in
the natural habitat there are males with no interest.

My opinion: get as many pairs into as many fishrooms as possible if you want
to see them around in 10 years. Because eventually, YOUR pair will refuse to
breed.

Edd Kray
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Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 8:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [Killietalk] no eggs from australes


In a message dated 2/17/06 1:21:48 PM, LeeH920226 at aol_com writes:

<< Reports will be due whenever something happens.
 >>

Well, something has happened. None of the eggs have shown any development
and 
most have just disintegrated without fungusing. So I collected over 220 eggs

and have nothing to show for it. You may recall that these are a strain of 
australe that I have kept for many years. I also have another strain, that
under 
the same conditions, is producing many eggs and fry. The good news is that I

have 3 fry that are about a month old from prior to my concerted efforts and

one fry that is about two months old. So, if I am not able to solve this
riddle 
with this generation of breeders. I may have a chance at another generation.
I 
will try some alternate approaches such as not handling the eggs, incubating

on peat and lowering the hardness of the water.

Lee Harper
Media, PA
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