Re: elizabethae spawnings

[David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>]

My experience with A.elizabethae is with tank raised
fish from Europe. I also found them rather easy to
spawn pretty much like an agassizzii but smaller. I
found the fry easy to raise with frequent water
changes and a clean environment. I used good floating
plant cover as well as several caves, java moss and
pieces of driftwood. I raised the fry on bbs and in
well water with pH 5.5 and 15 us/cm.

Dave Sanchez


--- David Soares <apistodave@bendcable.com> wrote:
> Elizabethae is a tough one to keep you guys easy to
> spawn but then
> what --one suggestion you are on the right track by
> keeping changes to a
> minumum but also when grown up dont move fry move
> parents---F1's almost
> impossible to spawn when i got the furst ones 6
> yearts ago from Uwe they
> were wild and spawned easy i put fry in grawing tank
> and just when an inch
> long lost about 300 in 3 days
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray" <rbnw34747@blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: <apisto@listbox.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:35 AM
> Subject: Re: elizabethae spawnings
> 
> 
> > ok george-thanks for the info a mental note has
> been made----scouse RAY
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Geo" <szucs@videotron.ca>
> > To: <apisto@listbox.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 3:38 AM
> > Subject: elizabethae
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Ray
> > >
> > > I`m George from Montreal who is spawning the
> elizabethae.
> > >
> > > I been breeding them for  1 & 1/ 2 years now.
> > >
> > > I have the pair in a 15 gallon tank,with gravel
> ,plants, coconut shells
> > and a
> > > box filter
> > >
> > > I use R.O water 80% and the rest is tap,which
> isn`t that hard  either
> (120
> > ppm,
> > > PH 7.0)
> > >
> > > P.H is under 6.0 and hardness is around 20 ppm
> > >
> > > The spawning  part was very easy for me,but
> keeping the fry`s alive was
> > very
> > > hard
> > >
> > > At first I had a very high date rate of
> fry`s,over 90%
> > >
> > > The hardest part for me, is that the fry`s are
> very delicate to water
> > > changes,the first 2-3 months
> > >
> > > Very small water changes
> > >
> > > I did breed the off spring once so far,only  8
> fry`s
> > >
> > > Good Luck
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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