Re: beauty contest?

[Steve <hutchins.33@osu.edu>]

At 08:35 PM 1/26/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Steven Hutchins wrote:
>
>> Side question, does anybody out there have any experience
>> spawning maculatus?  I know there was debate for a while on whether they
>> were cave or open spawners and I have this area in my tank that looks like
>> something is making a pit in the gravel beneath an overhanging rock.  Any
>> ideas?  Just wondering.
>>
>> STeve
>
>D. maculatus spawns on rocks, broad leafs, etc.  I've seen five or six
spawns, but
>the females always eat the eggs.  I can tell a female has eggs because her
>ventrals get a bright yellow-orange.
>
>I think I'm going to finally get a batch.  Yesterday a new female spawned
on the
>submersible heater in a community tank.  I unpluged that heater and added
>another.  The spawn occurred in a 40 gallon community tank (with very soft
water,
>lots of Java Fern, no extracts, and a pH at 4.4!).  My importer shipped
the last
>batch to me in a pH in the 5's.  Unlike the others before, this female
(with help
>from the male) are diligently guarding the eggs.  If she's eaten any, I can't
>tell.  I'm pulling the eggs tomorrow since I don't want to lose any in the
gravel.
>
>--Randy
>
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I'm glad to hear of your success Randy.  Keep me updated

STeve