Breeding bowfins
#1 Guest_PrimitiveJaws_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 12:12 AM
What are your comments and ideas on this.
PS. This has alot of potential to work so please only positive comments thank you.
#2 Guest_Joshaeus_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 05:34 AM
#3 Guest_PrimitiveJaws_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 08:15 AM
Anybody everherd of that? is it anything like letting koi hibernate ?
Edited by PrimitiveJaws, 10 September 2013 - 08:19 AM.
#4 Guest_centrarchid_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 09:12 AM
#5 Guest_gzeiger_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 09:24 AM
#6 Guest_centrarchid_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 09:56 AM
#7 Guest_EricaLyons_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 06:09 PM
Look at koi. If they are pretty from above and can get along in a group, you can market them as pond fish. Butterfly koi are an example of a selected-for long fin variety.Where are you going to find adequate demand for a 24" plus fish? Just my 2 cents...
It helps that koi are easy to yarn mop spawn (meaning you can remove the fry and hatch them in a bucket) and with thousands of eggs you can easily sort through the fry for the 100 or so you want to raise to juvenile. How do bowfins breed? Bottom spawners? Floating plant spawners? Caves? How many eggs do they lay in a spawn?
#8 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 06:34 PM
#9 Guest_EricaLyons_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 06:42 PM
About the dead vegetation spawning, I was just reading this interesting article about yarn: http://fish-etc.com/knowledge/1174-2
I bet in a bare cement pond like http://forum.nanfa.o...tive-fish-pond/ you could put a yarn mop in there and leave a retrieval rope on it. Then, every few days, you could lift it up using the retrieval rope and check it for eggs. If there are eggs on it, you could put the mop in a little bucket and select the dozen or so most lightest/darkest/reddest fry. Put a new mop in the pond, repeat. Are the eggs adhesive? If not that might not work.
Can you describe how you raised your bowfin? I've never read a breeding report from this species. That would be really interesting.
#10 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 06:55 PM
I have a dozen or more in my pond. I did not get a spawn this year, at least not a swarm that I could find. I am going to put about 15 pounds of fatheads and golden shiners in in the next couple weeks with hopes of conditioning them well for a spring spawn.
#11 Guest_PrimitiveJaws_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 10:03 PM
#12 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 10 September 2013 - 10:43 PM
#13 Guest_centrarchid_*
Posted 11 September 2013 - 09:49 AM
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