Earl Blewett <micro at earlblewett.net> wrote:
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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Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Oklahoma State University
Center for Health Sciences
College of Osteopathic Medicine
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