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Re: Maintenance (was Re: N. adoketa)



Gary,

I usually don't have more than one tank set aside for any species. My grow out
tanks take whatever is available. I often mix species in them if they are the
same size, but I always, always, make sure that they belong to 2 very different
looking species - usually an ancestral form with an advanced form. My problem it
that it takes about 10 years to have 3 generation go through my tanks. For
example, I have a pair of A. hippolytae that produce fry and I bought them wild
caught in the spring of 1997. The same goes for my A. sp. Rotpunkt (Blue-cheek).
My Anomalochromis sp. Guinea are still going strong and I got them as young
adults in the fall of 1997. I have reserve pairs of each of the above to replace
their parents but the parent are happy and don't want to die (such a problem,
huh?).

Mike Wise

Frauley/Elson wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> Can I do a little poll here? I've made it to the 3rd generation with a
> few apistos, and more with Pelvicachromis, but I find maintaining
> cichlids difficult because of space and warmth. I usually figure you
> don't know a fish til the third generation, but while that sounds nice,
> I have a lot of impressions based on small samples of one or two
> generations.
> I maintain two killie species, and one of them is well into its eighth
> year, which is a start, but I can keep a killie maintenance program
> going with 8 unheated 5 gallon tanks. I can't do that with apistos.
> So my question to the list is this:
> How many of us actually maintain species consistently beyond 2
> generations, and how many tanks are used per maintained species?
> -Gary
>
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