After a long, dry period (not AA Bob!), I have returned. (Yes - I stold the line from McArthur - he's dead and won't mind.)
After losing everything to a prolonged freeze coupled with a power outage, I lost interest, heart, and a lot of money in fishcicles. Being on the top floor of an apartment building didn't help matters.
I have returned and am building my collectons again. For those of you who don't know me. I am an old killie fan - HEY! HO! TAKO! I have decieded to concentrate on SAA's this time around. I don't have anything but peat to show now but I have S. carlettoi and S. fulminantis ready to hatch and Rivulus cylindraceus just arrived from a friend in Arizona. My betta colonies are better stocked with a nice small colony of Beta picta and pairs of Betta coccina and Betta edithae almost ready to have their first spawns. These are mouthbreeder species and much easier to raise than those fussy old common bettas. I have had some recent luck with Itherina in that I save some eggs from my school tanks and actually have a small group of the little guys survive and now starting to spawn for me! I have two other genera of rainbow fish spawing at this moment. Today was water change day and the males are pushing the females into the mops. I'm glad I have a couple of snail tanks to dump the mops in. The babies are so small they need infusoria and lots of it. My snail tanks seem to work fine for this.
What am I looking for? Xiph's and Gambusia from good localities no aquarium strains!!!! My guess is that SA Livebearer show wil be my ony chance at these.
Well Howdy all - Merry new year and Happy xmas!
Stan 'Paleoguy' Perkins
After losing everything to a prolonged freeze coupled with a power outage, I lost interest, heart, and a lot of money in fishcicles. Being on the top floor of an apartment building didn't help matters.
I have returned and am building my collectons again. For those of you who don't know me. I am an old killie fan - HEY! HO! TAKO! I have decieded to concentrate on SAA's this time around. I don't have anything but peat to show now but I have S. carlettoi and S. fulminantis ready to hatch and Rivulus cylindraceus just arrived from a friend in Arizona. My betta colonies are better stocked with a nice small colony of Beta picta and pairs of Betta coccina and Betta edithae almost ready to have their first spawns. These are mouthbreeder species and much easier to raise than those fussy old common bettas. I have had some recent luck with Itherina in that I save some eggs from my school tanks and actually have a small group of the little guys survive and now starting to spawn for me! I have two other genera of rainbow fish spawing at this moment. Today was water change day and the males are pushing the females into the mops. I'm glad I have a couple of snail tanks to dump the mops in. The babies are so small they need infusoria and lots of it. My snail tanks seem to work fine for this.
What am I looking for? Xiph's and Gambusia from good localities no aquarium strains!!!! My guess is that SA Livebearer show wil be my ony chance at these.
Well Howdy all - Merry new year and Happy xmas!
Stan 'Paleoguy' Perkins
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