Re: [RML] celebes 'bows and lampeyes

PETER.UNMACK at ASU.Edu
Sat, 23 Sep 2000 10:08:57 -0700 (MST)

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 Piabinha at aol.com wrote:

> > More or less how large are celebes 'bow eggs relative to say, G.
> > insicus or s. rubrostriata?
> > I have a mixture of Celebes 'bows and lampeyes and am pulling
> > quite big eggs. I suspect the lampeyes as they lay large eggs but
> > I'm getting as much as 16 in 2 days from a 2 cm fish (egg diameter:
> > ~ 1.5 mm). The Celebes 'bows are bigger than the lampeyes but
> > from my experiance with 'bows, bow eggs are quite small while
> > blueeye eggs are quite big? Yes???

Yes, blue eye eggs are typically larger than bows. Celebes 'bows are not blue
eyes, but I think they also have larger eggs than bows. Never messed with
lampeyes. Have to raise 'em to be sure!

> i'm confused about the term lampeye.

That's not surprising given how easy it is to confuse you. :-)

Tootles
Peter Unmack