>When do you collect your fish eggs? I work during the day I seem to miss
>out on the amorous activities of my fish and never find anything in my well
>grown java moss that I have everywhere. I suspect they all get munched on
>by the time I get home.
Yolonde,
When I was working I used to check my mops both in the morning and evening
(before I left for work and when I came home). These days I usually only
check them once each day usually in the early afternoon. With connieae I
find the best time to check the mops is late morning as this is the time
that I have found the most eggs. With rainbowfishes it depends as I have
found different species seems to spawn at different times of the day. If you
can check the mops after that time you will get the most eggs as most of
them will eat some of the eggs. I often just sit in front of a spawning pair
or group watching. As they start spawning the others just hang around
waiting their chance to nibble on the developing smorgasbord. My mops are
usually larger than most others I see and the reason is that with a large
mop the stands spread out more and because of the buoyancy of the strands
the spawning pairs can get right inside the mop and the eggs are thus
protected from the vultures! Most of my mops are made from half an 8-ply
ball. They are about 20-25cm long when folded over into a mop and then
attached to a piece of styrene foam to float. With some species I just drop
the mops on to the gravel. Most of my breeding is also in bare 36x18x18"
tanks, filtered with undergravel filters.
Adrian.
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Adrian R. Tappin
"Home of the Rainbowfish"
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
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