I feed a rotating diet of Omega1 Flake, frozen brine shrimp, frozen blood
worms, and a soft pelleted krill breeding conditioner manufactured by HBH.
Most recently the temp has been 76F but I've previously tried at about
80-82F. I'll bump the temp up again and try your suggestion about the
divider (if I can find/make one) - that makes a lot of sense.
Thanks much
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: <PETER.UNMACK at ASU.Edu>
To: <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [RML] Another unsuccessful attempt to breed incisus
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, william taylor wrote:
>
> What are you feeding your incisus? What temperature do you have them at?
>
> It sounds a little like your females just aren't in spawning condition, or
the
> conditions aren't quite right. I would seperate the sexes for at least a
> week, maybe two and feed them well on good quality food. I've always
found
> the best thing is mosquito larvae which are probably hard for you to get
at
> this time of year. Try some frozen foods and live brine shrimp. That
will
> give your female a good rest and time to develop better breeding
condition.
> Make sure your temperature is around 80oF (26oC) or maybe even slightly
> higher. I always put a divider in the tank to seperate the sexes, that
way I
> didn't have to stress either fish by catching them and transferring them
to a
> new tank (if you do this, I'd always shift the male, not the female).
>
> Tootles
> Peter J Unmack peter.unmack at asu.edu
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