Re: [RML] P. signifer Ross River

Bruce Hansen (bhansen at ozemail.com.au)
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:27:14 +1000

There you go Roy - you'll just have to stop selling this kind of fish to
people ;-)
Soon they'll get to expect it form everybody elses fish too ;-)

Most signifers seem to be good at egg eating Mach. Just for the record how
much salt do you have in there with them?

Regards,
Bruce.
bhansen at ozemail.com.au

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> From: Mach T. Fukada <tuhoitc at aloha.net>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: [RML] P. signifer Ross River
> Date: Friday, 24 October 1997 8:03
>
> Roy,
> these guys you sold me are developing way too fast. They are
> courting and laying eggs this morning. Males don't even have full color
or
> fins. I didn't place any kind of spawing substrate in the tank, but they
> were spawning on the tank sides (on a patch of algae). I can see that
the
> females are egg eaters and the eggs are good sized. Is this a common
event
> with the Ross River population? I put in a mop to see how the eggs turn
> out, but I don't quite know what to do with them right now.
>