Re: Artificial Hatching of Ram Eggs

["gkadar" <gkadar@idirect.ca>]

John Wrote:
does mother nature leave a night light on, oh the moon i can hear it
now, but really under all that natural vegatation in the wild do you
think there is any light getting in there, i dont think so.

I never leave a night light on and have no problems with mom and dad
finding their fry.

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I don't think that this is really the point.  In their natural environment
these fish have about an hour while the sun is setting to get their
youngsters 'put to bed'.  In an aquarium the light just snaps off.  Also,
having lived in the Tropics, I can tell you that the starlight and the
moonlight are very strong.  Even during rainy season there isn't the static
cloud cover that we can have here.  Clouds pass over an area, torrential
rain comes down for 10 to 15 minutes and then the clouds are gone again for
a while.  It's totally different from what we experience here in North
America around 40 to 44 degrees latitude.  That's why one always 'walks with
an umbrella' down south.  One never knows when one will get dumped on and
even then, it's always for tremendous but short bursts. No gentle pitter
patter of raindrops that's for sure.

Gabriella
who never went looking for Keyhole cichlids or even guppies for the entire 2
1/2 years she spent in Trinidad. :(  Lost opportunities.  Did see kids
netting for guppies in drainage ditches though.





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