Re: question raised by last night's speaker

["Paul Carey" <careyfam3@attbi.com>]

Erik,

Sorry  I have been so silent lately, My system has been offline so i set up
a spare computer.

Thanks,

Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
To: <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:14 AM
Subject: question raised by last night's speaker


> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Charter wrote:
>
> > Next up: I was a little surprised last night when Mr. Lange mentioned
that
> > his schedule for water changes in his fry tanks is 10% weekly.  I felt a
> > little like a chump, as I have been changing 50% daily.  (This is my
first
> > foray into on-purpose fish breeding, so I end up feeling like a chump
> > rather often!)
> >
> > Obviously this is a question that has no single correct answer, but I'm
> > curious: what's your fry tank water change schedule?
>
> We don't generally distinguish between our fry and adult tanks..  we end
> up doing 20-50% every 2-4 weeks for all tanks.  The Lake Tanganyikan fish
> get 20%, the apistogrammas get 50%.  We get away with this "extended"
> interval because of the floating plants.  I suspect most of our fish would
> be dead if we didn't have all the floating plants.
>
>   - Erik
>
> --
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
>