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Fw: Babies making babies
----- Original Message -----
From: George Davis <gwd at magpage_com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 04:34
Subject: Babies making babies
> I had a young pair of E. annulatus that I raised from eggs in java
moss
> from 7/8/00. The male is maybe one inch. The pair was raised in one
liter
> peanut jar and fed exclusively on live indoor raised daphnia. I took
the
> pair out of the jar on 9/23/00, leaving the java moss. This morning I
noted
> the first itty bitty little new ANN. Hard to believe from parents just
> started 7/8.
> I raise daphnia indoors in cut off 2 liter bottles. The daphnia get
fed
> green water from a 15 gallon tank containing a goldfish and a couple other
> straggler fish. Some of the daphnia jars develop quite a bloom of
> infusuria. I will change out half the water in the ANN container, then
> replace it with the infusuria water run through a net to catch the larger
> daphnia to feed to larger babies. The tiny ANN take three or four weeks
to
> get much size, then they literally explode in a growth curve. From that
> point on, they gain size quickly. I gave up hatching brine shrimp about
two
> years ago since I have been having success with the daphnia. Have now had
> an uninterrupted supply of indoor raised daphnia for three years. Many
> articles suggest not feeding an exclusive daphnia diet. These ANN were
> raised and bred on nothing else. I do supplement frozen earthworms from
my
> garden and live mosquitoe larvae for other larger killies.
> Anyway, I am a pleased Papa this morning.
>
> George Davis
> Wilmington, DE
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Meyer <bmeyer at parkland_cc.il.us>
> To: <killietalk at aka_org>
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 19:33
> Subject: Re: Keeping eggs warm.
>
>
> > One of the best investments that I have made is the purchase of an egg
> incubator. I use a Hovabator chicken egg incubator. Most farm stores
sell
> them for about $35 . It is about 18 inches by 18 inches and maybe 6
inches
> high. You can store 100 bags of eggs in the incubator. The thermostat
> allows you to adjust to within one degree. Low power usage and relatively
> safe. ..bob
> >
> > >>> rcraft at mtco_com 10/02/00 04:03PM >>>
> > Mark I have a large styro that was used to ship photographic film in
> inside this i put a 1/2 gallon bottle of water with a submersible heater
set
> at 68 degrees then just store my eggs in the styro until they are ready .
> >
> > WORKS GREAT FOR ME.
> >
> > Ray Craft
> > Morton ,Illinois
> >
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