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NFC: Sv: Fw: madtom news
Hi
What do you meen by heavy conditioning and what
temperature do you use for spawning.
I have some N. miurus that I would like to have
spawning, any suggestions?
They have overwintered fairy cold and are now
living in 17-22 C.
Martin - DK
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:45 PM
Subject: NFC: Fw: madtom news
Greetings from the CFI Center for
Higher Madtomology!
Another birth announcement! We have over 100
little Noturus "stigmosus"!
These are from parents collected in the
Hatchie R. last year.
We've been working with a variety of ways to
produce better results in
rearing madtoms. Looks like this way is about as
good as it gets! Let Daddy
do it.
This is the first time we've let
a male stay with a clutch and hatch them. He
deserves a good pat on the
back!
Our heavy conditioning (started very early in the season) seems
to be paying
off. We had a Smoky madtom pair spawn earlier in the season,
but
unfortunately disturbed the nest shortly after it was spawned. Madtoms
still
are proving to be very difficult to handle for the first day or so.
We have pairs of yellowfins, Smokys, pygmys, brindleds, stone cats and
others
set up to spawn. Hopefully some of these will do as the stigmosus
did. We are
going to avoid looking for nests for at least a couple of
weeks to see what
will happen.
Anyway, the little stigmosus have
absorbed their yolks and are starting to
feed.
What a beautiful
madtom!
J. R. Shute, Co-Director
Conservation Fisheries, Inc.
3709 N. Broadway
Knoxville, TN 37917
865-689-0231
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