Re: [Killietalk] peat pellits

[Fred Behrmann <athensaquatics at juno_com>]

Hi Nick,  They are not all divers. For divers I use glass vases(no need
for marbles) and for ploughers, the majority, cover the entire bottom of
the 10G. Work ahead with your boiling and make your diving containers
full to 3" from the top ,but the water right to the top. Insertion into a
10G is free of disturbances then(to the peat).You are absolutely right
about pouring it from the bag into the boiling pot: I often wondered if I
was giving myself "brown lung" over these frigging fish. But then in the
dollar stores they sell 3 form fitting masks(nose and mouth) for a$1. I
don't use them but I do have them. While I was off working I would come
home and the box filters would be covered with the stuff so you know
there was plenty of activity while you were gone because it does" whip
up." I love to watch the divers go into it completely immersing
themselves. Then in a short time the head of the male appears and he
comes out. The female determines when the action will take place(very
similar to humans, regardless of what you machos think).      I was
always impressed by how many "plant people" are into fish also. Seems to
be a similar theme.    Sincerely, Fred  
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:18:26 -0600 "Nick Ternes"
<woodland_gardens at gmail.com> writes:
> How do you keep it in a spawning container?    Milled sphagnum 
> doesn't
> settle out of water very quickly.  (hell, it doesn't settle out of 
> the air
> quickly either, dust masks are required when using it during any 
> automated
> horticultural process)  That would be one black tank if used for
> Austrolebias or other divers.  Even my nothos get coarse peat all 
> over the
> tank.  While I will agree that because of it's softness it would be 
> an
> excellent storage medium, I couldn't imagine using it as a spawning 
> medium.
> Of course I'm a spoiled horticulturist who gets free high quality 
> coarse
> peat every spring.
> 
> Nick Ternes
> Oostburg, WI
> WAKO
> AKA
> 
> On 12/11/06, Fred Behrmann <athensaquatics at juno_com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Richard, Does anyone use Nodampoff Brand horticulturally 
> milled
> > sphagnum moss? I think it's the best stuff available for true 
> annuals! I
> > gave a talk a few years ago at Danbury Aquarium Society(DAS) and 
> the TWO
> > members(William Cole, Anton Vuckich) who wanted to try their hand 
> at
> > breeding a true annual killiefish got the same results from using 
> this
> > brand as I had been. HUGE hatches. I'm so impressed by this stuff 
> that I
> > gave my $68 per 1000 ( 1972 price) box of peat pellets away. The 
> Mosser
> > Lee product was costing me $27 a 2 bushel ( 7 lbs.) bag. It is 
> from
> > Michigan ( not Canada) and so pure (all above ground parts ,no 
> roots)
> > that it MUST be boiled to accept water but when it does it can 
> hold 40
> > times it own weight in water. It even squeezes different than the
> > Canadian crap. Much softer, more like a newly made 100 strand
> > Acrylic(Orlon is a Dupont registered name) Mop. Like Rosario says 
> "
> > someday I'm gonna write a book".   Now her comes the commercial 
> but
> > without the disclaimer;  Get your ass over here and I'll give you 
> a trial
> > size portion.    Sincerely,  Fred Behrmann
> >
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Sincerely,
Fred Behrmann
Athens Aquatics
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