Re: eggs and fungal infection

[mjacobs2@tampabay.rr.com]

Interesting Happening!!!......egg...fungus!!!!!..........the other day I was 
cleaning tanks and fooling around and in one of my tanks I have 3 types of 
fish......1) a type of mop spawning killifish  2) a tetra from Peru that the 
hobby hasn't seen yet and 3) a type of wild cacatuoides..........with the 
likkifish in the tank there were 3 spawning mops in the tank........a piece of 
styrofoam with yarn wound around it so the killifish can lay their eggs in the 
mop..........I had taken 6-7 eggs out of the mop several days before and was 
going to do that again.........I took out the mop.....squeesed it in my had 
until it was quite dry and put them in a butted diah and took them to my table 
and was going to sit sown and pick eggs (we killifish guys are a bit nuts like 
that.....we do that in our sleep)........one thing or another happened and I 
didn't get to the picking for maybe 15-20 minutes..........not a problem with 
killifish eggs..........I opened up the strands of the first mop and found 
several killifish eggs and went to the second mop.......a couple of eggs were 
there but I noticed way up top close to the knot and the TOP of the surface of 
the water was a bunch of red things......smallish......egg kinda things but not 
really eggs I didn't think......I kinda flicked a bunch off of the mop with my 
fingers and then decided.......maybe the tetras had spawned.......these are 
wild fully grown tetras and no one has them maybe they have reddish 
eggs........how nifty..........so I picked off the remaining 20-30 eggs I could 
find and put them in water like killifish eggs and wondered if this was really 
stupid............they were out of the water for 20 minutes.....I had my 
fingers all over them but what the heck............I looked 2 days later and 
there were 12 hatched fry..........they were NOT tetra size, they were apisto 
size..............folks........I'll raise them to full size but they were the 
WILD CACATUOIDES that had spawned at the TOP of the water surface in a 
killifish spawning mop.........there were clay pots and clay "apisto" 
spawning "things" all over the tank..........they chose to spawn there.....!  
Just when you think you have seen it all along comes something  
else!!!!....I've seen apisto's la egs all over the place but it has always been 
a solid spot.......not in the soft "tentacles' of a killifish spawning 
mop!!!......sorry about the lenght of the post........I thought it was a fun 
thing!

Mike





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