RE: [RML] Bollbitis

Earl Blewett (micro at earlblewett.net)
Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:51:45 -0600

Dear Gary,

You're not the Tulsa Zoo Gary L. are you?

<<Again, what is "low hardness"??? If I remember water in your neck of the
woods is like rock, 450 ppm or more? >>

My tap water is very hard, a lot of killie eggs won't hatch in it although
the adults do fine. I cut my Ps. annulatus water by 75% with good DI water
from work. I hate hauling home the 5 gallon jugs. Most of my adult breeding
tanks are 50% DI/tap. The tank I am growing the bolbitus in is also 75% DI
with SeaKem equilibriate.


<<Have you ever made the drive to the Oklahoma City club? I know, the wrong
university :-) but at least there are fish folks there, including Dean
Hougen. I think they are still having monthly meetings>>

I'm a member of the OKAA (since most of the people in the club aren't from
OK City the names is morphing slowly). I drive down most months and dump a
lot of killifish on people at the monthly auction. A friend in the club
breeds rainbows (and killies) and I bought 9 M. boesemani from him for $2 at
an auction. The dwarf rainbows go higher, $6 - 9 for a bag of six fish. It
kills me not to bring home bags of fish each meeting. I know Dean and
Cynthia, next meeting is at their house. The club is going strong with a
serious BAP program. Since I really only do killies I won't rise to far in
those awards but there are a lot of neat fish being brought in for the BAP
auction. I am on my 6th set of I. werneri fry, I can't seem to get them to
live past a week.

We have a branch of the OKAA in Tulsa and have had a few meetings.

<<You might consider something like Najas grass for the annulatus. They
like a lot of light anyway. >>

I have litterally gallon of Najas, and it is so many tanks I would like a
change.

Best wishes,

Earl

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Earl Blewett Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Oklahoma State University
Center for Health Sciences
College of Osteopathic Medicine
1111 W 17 St. Tulsa, OK 74107

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