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if you agree, I'll put the information about the possible age into my
agelist:-)
http://users.skynet.be/rainschn/fishage.html
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>In nature I. werneri are a rapidly breeding inhabitant of warm weedy swamps
>and are food for almost every thing else with a mouth big enough so very
few
>get to grow huge. In captivity if you keep them in big tanks or ponds with
>good water quality, warmth and plenty of live food they will live for 3 or
>more years and eventually get to around 3 inches TL. Bob Gray in Sydney
kept
>them in schools in 6 ft tanks and fed them lots of microworms and he had
>some "monsters"
>
>
>Regards,
>Bruce.
>
>Bruce Hansen, A.N.G.F.A., Advancing Australian Aquatics.
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>Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
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>Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
>
>
--Rainer
International Rainbowfish Association - IRG- http://www.aquanet.de/vereine/irg/GEIRGHP.html
New newsgroups about rainbowfishes news://www.dedenet.de/aquanet.regenbogenfisch news://www.dedenet.de/aquanet.rainbowfish
My one :-) http://users.skynet.be/rainschn/fishage.html >