> Probably if I sealed and filled the living room I could set up a
> natural set-up even for large cichlids. The current adminstration
> might
> beg to differ.
>
<grin>
> What rainbows especially lend themselves to this sort of
> propagation?.
> Which have been successfully reproduced that way? Are there any
> "tricks
> of the trade" which rainbow people use which might differ from what
> killie or livebearer people would use?
>
Not that I'm an expert or anything, but I have a 3' by 18" by 16" tank
with about 15 swordplants, 2 lrg anubius', some bolbitus and a heap of
val floating around on the surface. This was my "holding tank" (because
it has a slow leak in it) for some of my plants after my recent shift.
Into it went about two dozen P gertrudae from the Olive Rv. (Eastern
Cape York, north of the Pascoe Rv system). Since then I have a dozen or
so fry hovering around the plant matter at the top of the tank. So far
(about 3 weeks later) 3 individuals have survived and now are 10mm long
with another 3 5-8mm long.
So far I don't mind :-) them breeding themselves.
G
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Davis
>