Re: [RML] Melanotaenia praecox, found around Siewa

Rainer Schneck (Rainer.Schneck at Skynet.Be)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:16:53 -1000

Hi Bruce,

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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

>
>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.
>
>Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
>
>Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
>
>

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Rainer

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