Re: Boardmeeting

["cartwright" <scottnvix@attbi.com>]

Hi everyone,
    Well, I have three people (Kathy, Anne and Clay) who have expressed
interest in the fish but I don't know who responded first.  Kathy said she
would pass so someone else could get the fish so I guess it is up to Clay
and Anne.  Did you want to draw straws? :)
    Clay, the fish are the "smaller shell dwellers", they seem to have a
pleasant disposition (in comparison to many other Rift Lake Cichlids) and
they are easy to spawn and care for in a 20 gallon tank with snail shells
and sand.  Unfortunately they need more care then I am currently giving
them.  When I was paying more attention, they seemed to spawn every month or
so and I fed the babies with a "turkey baster shot" of frozen baby brine
shrimp once a day.  That level of care allowed about 2 to 3 babies to
survive from each spawn (I'm assuming there were more eggs laid in the shell
but I didn't look) and I had about 10 to 12 of the little dudes/dudettes
(including three pairs that had each selected their own shell to defend).
Since then my care has been erratic and this last pair has gone through a
sort of "Darwinian bottleneck" :) as a result of a somewhat hostile
environment....  But they do seem to be healthy and I think that many of the
previous fatalities were due to these two "roughing up" the others because
the food had gotten a little scarce..... hmmmmm..... they deserve a good
home :)

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>
To: <gsas-board@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:12 PM
Subject: RE: Boardmeeting


> Scott,
>
> I think the fish would be really neat to have....are these the smaller
shell
> dwellers or the rather large nasty disposition ones?
>
> Clay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cartwright [mailto:scottnvix@attbi.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 12:02 PM
> To: gsas-board@thekrib.com
> Subject: Re: Boardmeeting
>
>
> Hi,
>     I was planning to attend the board meeting tomorrow and I wanted to
give
> away a matched pair of shell dwellers (Neolamprologus multifasciatus).  Is
> anyone interested in these two fish?  See you tomorrow...
> Scott
>
>