Re: NANFA-- more sunfish spawning [long]

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Sat, 9 Feb 2002 12:10:32 -0500

Hiya, Raymundo. Thanks for the report. My Peterson's doesn't list redspot
sunfish. Could you have meant to type redbreast or redear?

Thanks.

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. W. Wolff" <choupiqu_at_wctc.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:41 AM
Subject: NANFA-- more sunfish spawning [long]

> In my last report I relayed how the one 75 gallon that had a warmouth, a
> pair of Mississippi valley strain dollar sunfish and a trio of redspotted
> sunfish had some action going on. Well, the dollar pair have another group
> of wigglers. The fry from the last batch have all ended up fish food for
the
> other suns. I should have siphoned some off to raise, but time just flies
> by. Anyways, I know with this pair I have more than a second chance ( plus
I
> have a half dozen quarter size young from the pond they were in this past
> year coming along). The redspotteds spawned once again, and once again
the
> male ate his eggs. If he doesn't want to find out what the inside of a an
> Alligator gars stomach looks like , he better straighten up. Seriously, I
> think he is just nervous with all the activity. Maybe another chance with
> them too? If nothing the garden ponds will be more conducive to a
> successful spawn.
>
> In a thirty gallon which holds a spotfin shiner, a pair of golden shiners,
a
> mimic shiner, and four banded sunfish also has some activity. One of the
> male bandeds has a nest made. The shiners are just for eating duckweed
and
> algae. They do well so they get to stay ( though my bowfin pair would like
> them to stop by for supper). I don't know if any of the other three
bandeds
> are females, since they are all very large and old and its hard to sex
this
> particular group. I hope so, I had a spawn of these last year with some
> different smaller ones, that ended up probably being lunch for daddy
banded.
>
> My bantam pair that share a tank with a mudsunfish and some brassy minnows
> are seeming to show some spawning activity. The male seems to have a nest
> hidden down in some driftwood root gnarl. The female though is not showing
> any ripeness. I hope they do something this winter. They spawn often all
> season outdoors ( the rest of their colony is still out in the gar pond)
but
> I have not yet found any young. Don't know what the problem is, since the
> bluespotteds did the same ( although I did not see it) because there are
> alot of young of them.
>
> All conditions are the same as before, 14 hours of artificial day light,
and
> a few hours earlier of natural filtered daylight, temps in the mid 70's, a
> diet of mostly frozen shrimp the past week and a half, and the tanks are
all
> set up roughly the same. They both have power filters on a " low setting"
> ( aka plugged with moss) , driftwood chunks filling half of the space,
java
> moss covering the wood, and assorted other plants either floating or
sitting
> in the moss, like java fern, coontail, water sprite and the like. It's
> nothing really special, and I think anyone interested could easily
duplicate
> what I am doing.
>
> Ray
>
>
>
>
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