Re: Borellii fry

[David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>]

Nice job Tomoko I tell people I can raise many Apistos
to maturity in 3-4 months and they give you this
amazed look. Its a wierd thing your e-mail brings up
for me. I find when I raise a harem of borelli in a
larger planted tank I get a dynamic very similar to
the one you described. Yet when I breed them as a pair
in a 10 gallon tank I find that if I leave the fry
with the female for extended periods it seems to me it
wears the female out a bit. I find that these females
live about 2 yrs and seem to burn out after being with
fry for extended periods. When I look at such females
compared to ones I have in one of my show tanks, the
show tank females seem to live longer and look
healthier overall. I must add that the "wearing down"
of the female seems to occur when you leave the female
in with the fry after the school breaks up. Has anyone
else observed this?

Dave


--- Tomoko Schum <tomokoschum@knology.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I keep my borellii fry with their parents as long as
> I can.  I had four generations of fry with parents
> until new free swimming fry (4th generation) started
> disappearing.  After I moved most of the older fry
> to 10G, the trio spawned again.  The older fry that
> are still remaining in the breeding tank keep a good
> distance from their little siblings since they get
> chased a bit here and there by the two mothers. My
> heavily planted tank also offers a lot of hiding
> places for older fry.  
> 
> In 10G fry tank, I found barely three month old
> females guarding a small number of fry.  It was
> totally unexpected!  Must be all those live food
> I've been feeding to them.
> 
> Tomoko
> 


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