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
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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