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New Fishies
#1
Guest_itsme_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 10:25 AM
Register for NANFA Con 2014. See you there!
#2
Guest_gerald_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 10:50 AM
#3
Guest_itsme_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 10:55 AM
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#4
Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 12:00 PM
And you've organized everything by fish type, making it much easier to browse. Great list
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#5
Guest_itsme_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 12:14 PM
#6
Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 12:50 PM
I am saying this because I really want you to produce like a bajillion elassoma okatie. That fish is so rare, I can't remember more than three aquabid auctions of them in the past three years. April starts in one week so that means that by like the first week of May you could have 100 per 5 adults per bucket. *nudge nudge* The last aquabid auction for okatie (April 2013) went for $35 for a single pair of them
http://www.aquabid.c...ative1365776843
I have no room to breed okatie myself, so I must live vicariously through others.
#7
Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 12:59 PM
#8
Guest_itsme_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 01:13 PM
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#9
Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 01:17 PM
I find that pulling the adults is the real important thing. In a standard shaped aquarium, it's like: Pull the adults after a month to a month and a half? 100 babies. Don't pull the adults? No babies. I'm not sure why it makes such a big difference.
With the bucket tank's only three inches of water and the floating ceratophyllum it's super easy to just set the plant tissue in a container off to the side, scoop the adults out, put the plant back in, done. I didn't even feed those fry at all that first month and a half, just added a spoon full of flake food once every four days or so for the plant's sake. There's something about three inches deep of water that encourages microfauna.
Edit:
Forgot to mention: No water changes, ever. I just topped it off to keep it around 3 inches deep.
Also, no filter.
Or substrate.
#10
Guest_itsme_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 01:22 PM
#11
Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 04:35 PM
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So, on a different note. I was looking up info on okatie to answer a question for someone who saw my post and is thinking of buying them, and as I was looking up info I see they're classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. http://www.iucnredli.../details/7129/0
What's the legality for you selling them? I don't know how that works.
#12
Guest_Dustin_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 05:03 PM
#13
Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 05:20 PM
#14
Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 05:31 PM
#15
Guest_Dustin_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 05:31 PM
This being said, I don't foresee these fish being listed as state or federally protected in the near future. Now, boehlkei is a very different story.
#16
Guest_itsme_*
Posted 27 March 2014 - 10:38 PM
#17
Guest_Erica Lyons_*
Posted 28 March 2014 - 09:34 AM
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