RE: holy fry batman! free-swimmers!

["Williams, Ryan M." <rmwilliams@kraft.com>]

Congratulations!  Nice to hear that someone is having some luck.  After 8
spawns my Rams still love the taste of eggs.  One of these times when I have
the time I guess I'll have to try artificially hatching them. :(

Ryan
Chicago
where people are dying from the heat (literally)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Andrew Faust [SMTP:afaust%ghcp.com@internet.kraft.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 29, 1999 11:34 AM
> To:	'apisto'
> Subject:	holy fry batman! free-swimmers!
> 
> zoiks, zounds, and yipes!
> 	This is going to sound a lot like JohnW's post yesterday:
> 	I got up this morning, and I was checking out the denizens before
> feeding. I noticed the male was hanging out by the driftwood, much higher
> in
> elevation than he is wont to do. Then I noticed one of the females, who
> has
> hardly showed her face since being brought home ~2 weeks ago - she was
> hovering near the ground in front of a rock overhang. I saw her make a
> quick
> dash at the male and then return to her spot. Then I noticed the tetras
> were
> all in the far third of the tank. How odd, I thought - they have
> individual
> territories distributed across the whole volume of the tank.
> 	I looked back at the female. She sure is yellow. Now's my chance to
> get a good look at her. Nice dark lateral line (sortof a dashed line,
> really) and super- and sub-orbital stripe; dorsal blotches; caudal spot;
> front few rays of dorsal fin black; and wow, front half of her ventral
> fins
> are really black. Never noticed that before. Look at her fan the ground.
> Hey, what's that stuff moving around...oh...my...god! I've got babies! I
> had
> _wondered_ if that's what she was doing back in that hole behind the
> plant.
> 	<in a near frenzy> I'd been meaning to get a sponge put on the
> intake of my filter, now I'm really stuck...ok, wife, give me some nylons.
> I
> quickly put the toe of an old stocking on the intake. Checked the filter
> box
> - nope, nobody there.
> 	Initial estimate: somewhere around 30.
> 	I must tell you I really didn't want to come to work today.
> Hopefully Mom will keep the wolves at bay; I have pretty good confidence
> she
> will, simply judging by the fact that she and the fry were there this
> morning. I fed the tank their regular food, so maybe the rest of the crew
> won't get hungry for fry-on-a-stick.
> 	Meanwhile Dad's got another lady, hopefully she'll keep him occupied
> for a while.
> 	whew, well maybe I can get some work done today...NOT. I've got to
> research fry on the Krib now; how fast do they grow, when can I take them
> to
> the shop, (and how), etc.........
> 
> <cigars to everyone> thanks for listening <grin>
> Andrew
> 
> 
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