RE: Cacatoos question

["Stepanova, Lilia" <Lilia.Stepanova@stjude.org>]

I feed them mostly beef heart and variation of dry foods. They seem to love
it, and I spawned a lot of fish on this diet. I will try the thing with
temperature at the time the next storm comes here.
Thanks

Lila


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Scott Olson [SMTP:olson7@hotmail.com]
> 
> Just a couple of suggestions:
> 
> Are you feeding frozen or live foods?  You might try live whiteworms or 
> blackworms, live or frozen bloodworms, frozen glassworms, etc.  And if you
> 
> have live baby brine shimp, these are a great tonic/conditioner for adult 
> breeders, as well as fry.
> 
> One other thing you might try is slowly raising the temp in the tank to 
> perhaps 85 or 86f., then with a large (1/3 or so) water change, lower the 
> temperature by perhaps 6 or 8 degrees.  This simulates the effect of a 
> tropical rain storm, and can trigger spawning.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> >From: "Stepanova, Lilia" <Lilia.Stepanova@stjude.org>
> >Reply-To: apisto@listbox.com
> >To: "'apisto@listbox.com '" <apisto@listbox.com>
> >Subject: Cacatoos question
> >Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 22:18:04 -0600
> >
> >  Hi guys,
> >
> >I have 3 pairs of cacatoo apistos triple red in 90g with 3 small angels
> and
> >hatchets. Females are always bright yellow, for several months now, but
> no
> >spawn!
> >The same water spawned me blue rams, borelii, some larger cichlids, mixed
> >with RO - nannochromis. For some reason it does not work with cacatoos.
> >Any insight? water is ~8 pH, hardness ~ 50 ppm.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Lilia
> >
> >
> >
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