Re: [RML] Melanotaenia praecox, found around Siewa

Michael Martin Haas (michael.m.haas at netcologne.de)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 11:28:49 -1000

Bruce Hansen <bhansen at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>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"

Damit bestaetigt sich meine Ansicht, da§ man absolut darum bemueht sein
sollte
moeglichst kleine (moeglichst wenig) Fische in moeglichst gro§en Becken zu
halten!
That's german. Do you like it? :-)

I will try to translate in english (please just take the sense)
Keep small fish in big tanks.

Thank's a lot to all of you.

Michael