Re: [RML] Set up/SPAM
HH (Harro.Hieronimus at t-online.de)
Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:28:05 +0100
Adrian Tappin schrieb:
> At 11:58 13/11/98 +0100, Harro schrieb:
>
> >Then the fish must spawn directly before the prefilter! Otherways it's not
> >explainable as the eggs stick normally to the substrate.
> >Best regards
>
> The wonderful thing about the aquarium hobby is that not everything that
> happens has a easy answer.
> I don't know what the fish do but I do know the sponge prefilter ends up
> with eggs on it.
>
> Bruce will know the particular tank I'm referring to - its 6 feet long by 2
> feet wide and 15 inches high. I'll let you do the metric conversions Harro.
> Anyway the tank did contain about 100 Goyder River Trifasciatas. The tank is
> bare except for a light covering of gravel on the bottom. The tank was being
> used just to grow the fish on. No plants, no spawning mops, no nothing!
> except a trickle filter that has an overflow at one end of the tank. So I
> guess they just spawn in midwater? and I don't know if the eggs were fertile
> or not as I never tried to hatch them.
>
> I remember one time there must have been at least 100-200 (or more) eggs as
> the sponge prefilter was completely covered.
>
> Adrian.
>
> Adrian R. Tappin
> "Home of the Rainbowfish"
> http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
>
Maybe the fishes crowd before the prefilter and must spawn there because they
feel such lonesome in the empty tank ;-))
BTW, I seem to be quite more familiar with the non-metric systems than some
Americans or Aussies seem to be with the metric one...
Best regards
Harro Hieronimus, Solingen, Germany
harro.hieronimus at t-online.de
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