BTW Adrian - just for the sake of the discussion ;-)
How do you feel about the possibility of keeping a combined colony of both
species together as breeders? They tend not to cross, unlike Rainbows, one
species spawns in the top of the mops and the other in the bottoms and the
fry are easily separated as soon as the colour comes in the tails. So
theoretically the breeder could use half the number of tanks ;-)
Regards,
Bruce.
Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
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> From: Adrian R. Tappin <atappin at ecn.net.au>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Connieae & Furcatus
> Date: Thursday, 23 April 1998 6:15
>
> At 07:30 22/04/98 +1000, Bruce wrote:
>
> >Because of the small number of eggs and relatively low fertility you
need a
> >small school of breeders to be sure of maintaining your population e.g.
> >10-12
>
> I would say 30-50 if you want to keep them for any length of time ;-)
>
> Adrian.
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