Re: Fwd: iron and eggs

[Frauley/Elson <fraulels@minet.ca>]

Ed Pon wrote:
 So can you go into detail about what
> it is that your Nanacara Taenia and cacatoides were having so I can try
> it out?  Thanks.
> 
Hi Ed,
	Actually, they're having sex, which seems to please them mightily.
	On a more constructive note - taenia breed like anomala - they're dead
easy. The only problem is they do put the spawns in weird places, so you
can miss it. They hide a lot to begin with, even with schools of dither
fish. They guard the eggs well, but seem really incompetent at guarding
wrigglers. I've taken to stealing the wrigglers, or they just vaporize.
	Diet: frozen bloodworms daily, flake in the afternoon, occasional live
brine shrimp or whiteworms, maybe weekly at best. I already gave the
water details in the previous posting. Plants seem essential - I keep
them in jungles. My weird trigger was a miniscule dose of chelated iron.
	The cacas were guarding 3 month old fry (!) and hence weren't spawning.
I moved them to a community, but the 'iron' trigger was immediate. I
don't think it was coincidental. Maybe. 
- -Gary