Re: oh another question

["Raymond Wong" <myapisto@hotmail.com>]

Hello Kathy and everybody else! I forwarded this message to the list also..

who's big john? or is he reading this? care to comment about consqeuences of 
moving parents instead of the fry and the other way around? would the 
parents need to adapt to the new tank you've just moved them to before they 
spawn?
thanks
Raymond Wong



>I use oak leaves, and if needed the sea chem buffer to drop the pH
>(haven't needed the later in 3 years since we moved to an area with softer
>water).
>
>I move parents, I am not in this though to crank out fry, I have heard of
>other list members doing that, also heard of it the other way around.
>
>Now in Erik's 75 gallon planted tank, we remove fry....don't want to use
>that tank for fry grow out.  Moving parents you do risk stressing them and
>breaking the spawning cycle....so if you want to crank out lots of fry
>then siphoning the fry may be better.
>
>Ask Big John, or post to the list, we haven't touched on this one for
>awhile....I think.
>
>Kathy
>
>
>On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Raymond Wong wrote:
>
> > Hmm... moving the parents.. would it take 2x or more as long for the 
>pair to
> > 'adapt' to new conditions of a different thank than the ones they bred 
>in?
> > Raymond Wong
> >

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