Could you do us all a favor and post a photo or two of your Tadpole
Madtoms? I collected a few Madtoms this
past weekend and they don't look like freckled but I haven't seen a good
(profile view) picture of the Tadpole.
John
Todd Crail wrote:
>Well an excavation has begun, and I wonder if it ain't cause they'd like a
>little privacy.
>
>I have two large tadpole madtoms, N. gyrinus, the female of which, looks
>more like a small bullhead :) They were small last year, but they sure
>grow fast on krill (since last May when I brought them in my care). She's
>alway kept to herself under a couple pieces of limestone I stacked at an
>angle, and never shared the space with any of the 5 madtoms I have in there
>(the smallest of which sits in a back corner, head down, because all the
>other good places are taken ;)
>
>This last week, one of the males moved in and they've really moved some
>sand. Little dunes at the front and back. I checked tonight and they have
>really cut a chasm out in between a rock that must have been buried in the
>sand and the right piece of their "tent". I can only assume that he was
>invited in, since she's chased off intruders all the rest of the time.
>
>Anybody bred gyrinus before? I'm assuming they'll use the flat part of the
>rock to lay eggs and fan them there. They're guarding the cubby like crazy
>(no one even bothers to go near it now), so I imagine I can get a hatch and
>then pull some of the fry to another tank. Yes, I'm a low maintenance kind
>of "breeder". Usually, fry in my care become food, but this looks like fun
>;)
>
>And granted the eggs are fertile because they really didn't get all that
>cold. Low temp this winter was 65 F. So I'm not extremely hopeful, but it
>does look like all systems go at this point.
>
>And on a completely different continent... I started the stock of the 30
>gallon Amazonian tank this Saturday. The blue rams already laid. Time to
>go look all that up. I can make money at that to pay for my native habit ;)
>
>Todd
>
>It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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