Re: A. borelli (artificial hatching)

[David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>]

I agree with you Jeff and I too would like to preach this message. The
fact is I read and hear all to often of pulling eggs as common
practice perhaps we can help change this!
David



- ---WndrKdnomo  wrote:
>
> 
> In a message dated 4/6/98 3:26:02 PM, you wrote:
> <Most European and hence American Aquarists pull the eggs or young
away
>  from the female  >
> 
> <<I would like to think  that most Apisto keepers realize the 
> benefit of letting the fish raise their young naturally and 
> do not pull the eggs.>>
> 
> 
> I ,for one, would also like to think that most people let the
parent's try to
> raise their young. I also realize it is very frustrating to have
spawn after
> spawn disappear, either catastrophically all at once ( the "Big
Gulp") or
> excrutiatingly disappear one or two at a time (the "Midnight
Snack"). But when
> it all goes right, I don't think there is anything in fish keeping
more
> interesting and satisfying than watching a pair of Dwarf Cichlids
raising a
> brood of young, especially when there are other fish present (either
as
> dithers or in a community tank setting).  It always upsets me when I
read
> articles on dwarves that imply artificial rearing is the way to go,
and that
> if a pair eats their eggs or larvae once or twice, that they always
will.
> Very often, with improved conditions or just added experience, the
pair that
> seemed hopeless will turn out to be fine parents.
> I realize that I'm preaching to the choir , but the idea of pulling
the eggs
> as a matter of routine touched a nerve.
> 
> Jeff
> WndrKdnomo@aol.com
> 
> 
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