Nothobranchius rachovii Beira 98

[hobbit6003]

JY,

I'll be damned!!!

So, what's the deal here?

Kenny

[stormhawk]

Beats me! I'm boggled as well.

[RonWill]

Show me the eggs and we'll talk.

I found eggs, so did Zul. We could discuss about this further. Need not be damned, just buy me dinner... your treat? (there are females in the batch... told you so)

Anyway, the whole lot is going to EcoCulture tonight. Those who are in need of mates, now you know where to find them.

[keehoe]

With the kind of feeding we all been used to. Even female will colour up like a male. But guys, thats not a good sign. Female might die faster or stop producing eggs if they started to colourup.

Thats the experience that i had with my F* N.Rachovii Nicuadala. I was collecting viable eggs until it colour up and die.

Kenny, i can't show you the egg. I can only show you the fish. The eggs from the previously dull colour female had grown into adult male. Do you happen to have access to lab personel or test equipment for hormon related food item? I got feeling that it is what we feeding the fish make made that happen.

[stormhawk]

Okay bad news. Lost the breeding trio along with some of my other fishes. I managed to get one collection of peat and hopefully that will yield some eggs that I've not been able to spot yet. I still have the two young males. Whoever wants them for breeding let me know, otherwise they'll be part of my community tank.

[RonWill]

Kee Hoe,
Due to changes in work schedules, I no longer feed my fishes as much as I used to but diet has basically remained the same, ie. tubifex and daphnia, once daily and 'fasting' on Sundays. If the females still color up, then there's not much I can do about it and no, I didn't gut load the tubifex with asthaxantin or other hormonal stuffs. The RACs didn't take to Tim Addis's pellets either.

I collected a small batch of eggs from the breeders and only time will tell if these eggs are viable and/or whether the females still 'color up'.