Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vol 40, Issue 1

[Charles & Sue Harrison <csharrison at inkmaker_net>]

I have had this fading experience with avichang 
and think the fallax and a couple others as well. 
A change of water, massive, and additional love 
foods sometimes brings them around.  Adding fruit 
flies or love blood worms to their diet never 
before given sometimes  swings things around. 
These fish do put out the energy in making eggs, 
they don't have much time to fill the mud with 
new eggs in natural environments.
  Keith, you might add these to your husbandry - 
can't hurt and it could make a difference with 
these dirt spawners.

Charles H

>This leads me to ask a more direct fallax question.  My females, not
>the male, have somewhat recently started to lie around on the bottom
>almost like at 1 year they have decided to become belly sliders.  I
>was thinking thismight be because they are physiologically spent from
>egg production and are just declining.  Then I saw the article and
>thought "oh, maybe they are annuals, too." This seems not to be the
>case. Do you think if I separate them that the females will recharge
>and recover?  I also thought it might be the 66F temps that have
>beset them this fall, but I've added a heater, and at 72F I'm not
>seeing any change.  Help??!
>
>Keith
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