Re: [GSAS-Member] Peacocks and Darios?

["Susan Welenofsky" <welenofsky@comcast.net>]

Be sure to check the cave to make sure the fry have hatched first before
netting Daddy Gudgeon out. They won't make it without him.

Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com
[mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of Betty Goetz
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:54 PM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Peacocks and Darios?

I think Susan W. may still have some peacock gudgeons to offer. Susan??
They are gorgeous! They spawned in one of those little pottery caves that
Dave Sanford's kids do. I swear I didn't see either of them from Sunday to
Wednesday when I saw the female swimming around again and the male popping
his head out of the cave occasionally. If they are both out of the cave
today, I'll try to net them out and pop them into the planted 10 gallon on
the bottom of my 2-tier 10 gallon rack which theoretically leaves the fry
to grow up in their own tank. We'll see. Both these tanks have been
planted and fish free for months, so I'm hoping there's lots of teeny
critters in there for the fry to get started on until they can take larger
live food.

Dario dario is supposed to be super simple to spawn. The advice I see most
often is to take a small bare tank and fill it with java moss, pop in a
pair, and remove them in a week or two to another tank...leaving fry to
grow up in the first tank. I've heard of folks doing a sequential thing
until they have more fry than they know what to do with. Again, we'll see.

Betty Goetz

>Since Susan W.'s peacock gudgeons spawned within days of receipt and I
> 'might' actually have both sexes of Dario dario sometime in the
> foreseeable future...
>
> Well hey, if this means you've extras to part with, keep me in mind!  I'd
> love to start playing with these two! :-)
>
> Phil


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