N. orthonotus

[nonamethefish]

I received a little surprise package in the mail today. Among the 4 bags of eggs were 2 of Nothobranchius orthonotus(2 diff locations). To say the least I am a bit surprised. Anyone have any experience/tips for these? They sound like one of the more problematic species. The eggs were sent by Bob Morenski.

[TyroneGenade]

N. orthontus are not that tricky once you guess the correct time to
hatch them. The eggs can eye-up pretty quick but not hatch well...
About 4 to 6 months seems to work. The best advice is to wet small
portions of the peat till you get a good hatch.

Raising the fry isn't hard. They pretty much grow before your eyes on
bbs. From about 2 weeks on they can be fed chopped blood worm and the
like. If given enough space they are not as murderous as reported to
be. These fish are BIG and don't like being crowded. 10 fins per 2025
square centimeters seems to work fine.

With that said it pretty much up to the fish how they will do.

Good luck

[nonamethefish]

Great info! The sender put a date 6 months from collection date on
there,but I guess I will be prepared to try some sooner. One(I believe
it is Twange?...need to check bag) is due in January, another, known
as MOZ 98 is set for May. I may trade one of the bags away as I doubt
I would have the space for keeping the 2 locations seperate. How
different are these 2 locations? I'm assuming if you accidentally had
a female move from one tank to the other ID would be impossible?.

Have you kept them?

Will the fry cannibalize each other if asst. sizes(created by the wetting small amounts of peat) become apparent?

[TyroneGenade]

Hello

For the record Brian corrected the location codes as Nhangau MT 03-4 and MOZ 99-8. I think both are red populations and would look more or less the same. That said, there can be a lot of variation in the populations as regards the intensity of the red, the spotting etc...

There will be NO WAY yo tell female of different populations apart. Keep them seperate at all times!

The fry grow fast but at a uniform rate. We had 12 fry and have 10 adults. One fry just died and another was sucked into the filter...

tt4n

[nonamethefish]

Also, when you mentioned wetting small amounts of the peat....couldn't you check to see that the eggs are eyed up?

Here is a N. orthonotus Nhangua MT 03-4 egg



How many of these could a ten gallon safely house?