Re: Bad mom!

[Len/Geo <szucs@total.net>]

Hi Bob

If the fishes are spawning every 8 or 9 days after the previous spawn.
Are you using a RO. unit?
I want to start breeding Apisto & Pelvicachromis seriously. Is a R.O.
unit the way to go?

Thanks again

George

> The parents will usually spawn about 8 or 9 days after the previous
> spawn is
> free swimming, but this depends on a number of factors relating to
> age, diet,
> a broad spectrum of water conditions, and the individual fish
> themselves.  I
> would wait no more than six days, and it is easier to move the
> parents,
> although if the tank is on an upper shelf, the fry can be siphoned to
> a lower
> tank with reasonable ease.[there's a long sentence for you!!]  I
> suspect that
> siphoning the fry is the prefered method by most of the folks on this
> list,
> but that is based purely on conjecture, and not any formal survey.
> Perhaps
> we could get an informal poll going from anyone who cares to answer.
> Perhaps
> somene has had trouble with one method or the other that we may find
> useful.
>  I was having trouble with belly-sliders the first couple times I
> siphoned
> the fry, but I seem to have solved that by filling at least 60% of the
>
> receiving tank with water from the original spawning tank.
>
> Bob
>
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