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 Aug 22 2009, 07:05 AM
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Poosible to breed them in captivity? Have a decent group, ( 7 ) and was just hoping...... Who else keeps these guys? Thank you in advance. -------------------- Catching them, eating them, or keeping them, I love fish!
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Aug 23 2009, 10:49 AM
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QUOTE(iwade4fish @ Aug 22 2009, 08:05 AM)  Poosible to breed them in captivity? Have a decent group, ( 7 ) and was just hoping...... Who else keeps these guys? Thank you in advance. I used to keep a small school of these, but no breeding. Would assume the water was too hard. From what I have read they will spawn in clean, soft water. Other recommendations are to have a dark colored substrate, temperature 80-90 Deg F, and no egg stealing tankmates. Eggs are dropped into the substrate during a spawn and hatch about 3 days later. -------------------- "If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again." ~Groucho Marx~
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Aug 25 2009, 07:17 AM
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Thanks for the info. That temperature is almost like bath water. Got soft water from my shallow water well. We'll see what happens! -------------------- Catching them, eating them, or keeping them, I love fish!
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Dec 26 2009, 12:42 PM
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My father had a pair drop eggs in the water but they were eaten before they hit the substrate. That pair was over 4 years old. Tank water was around 80 degrees F. No success in hatching due to tankmates. -------------------- www.tropical-fish-success.com
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Mar 30 2010, 07:49 PM
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Any update?? How are they doing? -------------------- |
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Mar 31 2010, 03:33 PM
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QUOTE(Heather @ Mar 30 2010, 07:49 PM) Any update?? How are they doing? Well, not good. My mbuna addiction had left me with one large Silver Dollar that my wife sold last week. The guy called three days later and said it didn't make it. So much for that endeavor. Still have the Ikola colony spawning, as Heather knows from the other forum, and that should keep me busy for a long time. Looking at some RR's at ther moment. Evil addiction, this hobby is! Thanks for the spawning info though, will lock it up in this thing I call a brain.LOL -------------------- Catching them, eating them, or keeping them, I love fish!
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Apr 1 2010, 10:41 AM
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QUOTE Still have the Ikola colony spawning, as Heather knows from the other forum, and that should keep me busy for a long time. Congrats on that. 
-------------------- Clean water makes for happy fish!
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