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plesnerParticipant@mikev said:
Powdered food seems to help with young snails… and they need A LOT of calcium so I’d guess water changes will be beneficial even for your hard water… otherwise they compete with each other for Ca and nobody gets enough, thus most die.I believe they eat ramshorns too, at least there were very few ramshorns surviving in spixi tanks.
By moving the Aselone spixi into several of my tanks with tiny livebearers (Heterandria formosa, Neoheterandria elegans and Phallichthys quadripunctatus) all of which are regularly given powdered foods, the total number of snails seems to be growing at a steady rate and a lot faster than before. That was really a helpful piece of advice.
plesnerParticipantNo, I was saying that I have a group of M. ocellatus from Guangzhou.
plesnerParticipantI have a group of Macropodus ocellatus from Guangzhou. I hope to breed them this summer. It’s a very beautiful fish, which I had been wanting for ages. I’m amazed at the amount of live foods they can eat. At an age of 8 months, mine have been close to their maximum size for some time now. It turned out that I have 6 males and 3 females, but that should work fine, as they do not seem to be very aggressive.
I like the M. hongkongensis too, but unfortunately they do not seem to be available here.
March 21, 2014 at 4:53 pm in reply to: Genetics of Sexual Development: An Evolutionary Playground for Fish #352939
plesnerParticipantI would love to read this one, too.
March 6, 2014 at 5:53 pm in reply to: The origins of adipose fins: an analysis of homoplasy and the serial homology of vertebrate appendages #352869
plesnerParticipantMe four, please. Thanks in advance.
plesnerParticipant@Rüdiger said:
Jupp, that makes two of us Matt!!!But isn’t it almost too much to hope for??
Any particular reason you and Matt are hoping they’re Danio auropurpureus? Aren’t they supposed to be quite easy to breed?
January 17, 2014 at 5:18 pm in reply to: Population differentiation and speciation in the genus Characidium (Characiformes: Crenuchidae): effects of reproductive and chromosomal barriers #352604
plesnerParticipantI’d be very interested in reading this.
January 17, 2014 at 5:16 pm in reply to: A new and unique species of the genus Aphanius Nardo, 1827 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae) from Southern Iran: A case of regressive evolution #352603
plesnerParticipantI would love to read this too.
plesnerParticipantThank you Michael.
I do feed them a lot. I don’t change water on the young snails that often. A clutch or two of them were put in 54 l/14g tanks. Our tap water is slightly basic and very hard (occasionally referred to as liquid calcium).
I don’t keep any cories and it does seem to be a decent alternative to apple snails, which are no longer legally available within the EU. I did know about their tendency to eat eggs (and snails – apparently even assassin snails). I will make it a rule only to keep them with livebearers and other fish which are unlikely to leave eggs in the aquarium.
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plesnerParticipantIt’s a very nice fish. I kept them some 10 years ago. I got them at the same time as Danio erythromicron and Microrasbora rubescens which are also from Lake Inlé. All three species were kept and bred under similar conditions – and all of them seem to be about as easy to breed as your typical Danio.
Compared to other wild caught specimens I’ve seen, these look rather nice.
July 4, 2013 at 5:30 pm in reply to: Comparative life histories of fishes in the genus Phallichthys (Pisces: Poeciliidae) #351408
plesnerParticipantI’d love to read this one, if it becomes available.
plesnerParticipantVery nice Matt. An interesting read/view and most certainly added to my list of places I’d like to visit.
plesnerParticipantMe too. Didn’t supply an email address in order to win a digital subscription to Amazone Magazine. It’s already included in my ordinary subscription.
plesnerParticipantI’d love to read it too, if possible.
March 30, 2013 at 11:25 am in reply to: Water pH during early development influences sex ratio and male morph in a West African cichlid fish, Pelvicachromis pulcher #350557
plesnerParticipantMe too, please.
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