Re: NANFA-- ommata fry

Henry Deford (hdeford_at_home.com)
Thu, 5 Oct 2000 07:47:15 -0400

Oh, ok a 30g. That still is HUGE for those little guys. I do see your point
of having a huge tank so you don't have to mess around with picking the eggs
out of the mop. The fry get to hatch on their own and swim free. If I had
the tank space I would do that but I am putting them in a 5 1/2 gallon.

Thanks,

Henry Deford
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark B" <mbinkley_at_earthling.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- ommata fry

> At 4:33 PM -0400 10/3/00, Henry Deford wrote:
> >Wow that is cool that you saw them spawn and that you can see the eggs. I
> >didn't know that they would lay the eggs on plants. I am getting 3 pairs
of
> >ommata's from Ray in the mail soon so I hope they also will breed.
Exactly
> >how many gallons is that tank that you are using? So they are the only
fish
> >in the tank? It seems like a huge tank for such a little fish.
>
> The dimensions of the tank in inches are 60 x 10.5 x 10. So it's a little
> less than three ten-gallon tanks - about 30 gallons. They are the only
> fish in there - I think three females and two males...plus the fry. I
like
> the idea of a "colony" setup like this that allows the killies to spawn
and
> the fry to grow up in the tank with the adults. Hopefully, this will
> eliminate the need to harvest eggs to hatch separately, thus saving time
> for me. Right now, I'm attributing the survival of the ommata fry to the
> length of the tank and the dense plants. The more ground area, the less
> likely the fry will be found by the adults. I am, however, worried about
> the hydra snagging the newly hatched fry. I may move the adults to
another,
> clean tank and let the fry grow out in the old tank, and then sterilize it
> later.
>
>
> Mark Binkley
> Columbus Ohio USA <))><
> mbinkley_at_earthling.net
>
>
>
>
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