Re: Feeding fish in the field

["Nagy Béla" <nab at mail_matav.hu>]

Brian R. Watters wrote:
>Firstly, note that I said nothing about fish "eating their eggs due to
>starvation in the bags". The females often drop their eggs
>spontaneously, presumably from shock, but do not then eat them in the
>bags. At least I have never observed this to be the case. The eggs will
>simply start to decay in the bags and must be removed ASAP before the
>water gets fouled.


I observed in my N. korthausae group setup that one of the females dropped
spontaneously about 10-15 eggs to the bare bottom. Then she did eat them
all.

Bela

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