In nature in general, the more sex you have, the shorter your life:-(. The next question is by how much is your life shortened, look at Mick Jagger! :-0. I think that the answer to your question lies in whether you want your fish to live a longer or shorter time. Good luck with your acquisitions but be careful, these little fish can become seriously addictive. C:-)lin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank O'Carroll" <ocarroll@acm.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:35:49 +0900 To: apisto@listbox.com Subject: [[Grzegorz Prusinowski <gprusinowski@interia.pl>]] > This bounced because his email was not a member yet. > > ----- Forwarded message from gprusinowski@interia.pl ----- > > Date: 18 Jun 2002 16:46:32 +0200 > From: Grzegorz Prusinowski <gprusinowski@interia.pl> > Subject: frequent spawning > Message-Id: <20020618144632.9264026780@eri.interia.pl> > > Hello folks, > > I'm a starting apisto maniac from Poland. I currently keep > a. sp "Rio Mamore", n. anomala, m. ramirezi and had short stints > with a. cacatuoides, and some other species. > I've been reading the list for some time and now have a tickling > question of my own. > if the fish spawn very often - is it healthy for them? > it usualy means, that they like the conditions, but laying eggs > every second week could be quite a burden for the female's > organizm, that may perhaps lead to exhaust and a shorter life. > > I keep them all in the community tank, so the fry usually > disappears after a week or so and they start again - particularly > the nannacaras. the mamores have yet to mature a bit ;-) > > regards > > Grzegorz Prusinowski > (Greg - if you want it simple ;-) > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. > For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, > email apisto-request@listbox.com. apisto-digest@listbox.com also available. > Web archives at http://lists.thekrib.com/apisto > Trading at http://blox.dropship.org/mailman/listinfo/apisto_trader > C:-)lin They said "Smile, things could be worse." So I smiled, and sure enough... -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, email apisto-request@listbox.com. apisto-digest@listbox.com also available. Web archives at http://lists.thekrib.com/apisto Trading at http://blox.dropship.org/mailman/listinfo/apisto_trader