Re: Gibbiceps & temperature

[Pete Johnson <petej@wordsanddeeds.com>]

On 9/11/97 7:25 AM, Mike Jacobs wrote:

>Pete........could your discussion with Uwe have some bearing on why the
>last 3 spawns of my A. sp'Pandurini' have not been successful......too
>hot????  The temp in the room since she began laying eggs has been in
>the low to mid 80's (converted garage in Florida with no air
>conditioning!).  Maybe when the temp. breaks we will have some
>fertility.  I have not been able to see them spawn (to see if "he" has
>an idea of the birds and bees) but 3 times she has laid oh.....30-60
>eggs just as red as a cherry, but to no avail.  3-4 days down the line
>they all are gone and fungused.  the very first batch she laid I took
>them out and treated them like angel eggs........fungused...big time.

Uwe is up in Sisters, OR, with David Saores and a coupla other Germans 
now, but before he left Soares saw your earlier message to me on this 
subject and suggested that the eggs are probably not getting fertilized. 
An inexperienced or blank-shooting male is probably the culprit.

>Uwe (Pete...is Uwe still there?).....I had a gentleman tell me that A.
>agassizi will not inter breed succesfully....without kowing for sure I
>just said OK.......I wanted to tell him to shove it but I thought I
>would ask.....Pete, feel free to throw in an opinion if Uwe isn't
>around.  His precise statement was..."If you think an aggie from Peru is
>going to breed with some aggie from Brazil, you're nuts."  quote,
>quote!!!   What do you think???

Just called Soares and he says that's nonsense. He suggests that it's 
possible that some extreme different forms of aggies -- Rio Tefe, for 
instance -- might not interbreed with "mainstream" aggies, but that 
geographic location does not make a difference.


Pete Johnson  /  San Jose, CA  /  petej@wordsanddeeds.com