Hi I just wanted to share some information on my experiences with Diapterons. I know some of you have started keeping them in hot steamy Singapore and I wanted to encourage you to continue to do so. I live in hot steamy Florida which may be the USA equivalent to your climate well somewhat. It does get very hot and humid here for most of the year 90's plus and very humid too. The winter my fishroom gets down to the low 70's for about 2-3 months. Well my Dipaterons have slowed down noticebly. their appetites have been much reduced. I see far less aggressive behaviors as well. When the temperature was at 78 f I saw very aggressive courting, feeding, etc etc etc. The temperature is 69 f and I have seen breeding come to a halt for me anyway.
A good friend and breeder sent this for me to read.
http://fins.actwin.com/killietalk/mo.../msg00571.html
Seems we may have to rethink much of what we know about Diapterons. I feel the cold is a bit over rated. Until I can go to Gabon myself there are many questions I would like to investigate. I hope I may give some of you hope that you can also keep Diapterons. I am waiting for summer to return so I can get mine producing again!
Thank you very much for this link!
It's funny because a portuguese friend of mine, recently wrote an article about his diapterons.
He had a large number of diapteron's eggs just after giving them daphnias for a couple of days...
All those guys keeping diapterons are really lucky... A real pearl!
Ruben Isidoro
APK42 KT140 SAA160 GAK51 NMG15
Just wanted to add an update on my Diapteron cyanostictum LEC 94/3 location. After going dormant when the temperature went below 69f I warmed them back up to 74f. After a week of this and heavy feeding I placed a trio in a breeding tank and I was able to collect a dozen eggs from a trio in one day! I have never gotten more then 3-5 eggs a week from them before so this has been very exciting. They have also become far more active and are eating aggressively compared to when they were kept below 70f. I will try and keep you posted on my experiments as I feel this can lead to some new techniques. I found Diapterons kept under 70f eat very little and are not active. Breeding seems to to stop for me and is very slow for those that do have success at such low temps. How are your baby Diapterons doing in sunny Singapore?
Hi!
My name is Regard (Richard) and I live in Scandinavia, Sweden. My friend, and one of our senior master mega very skilled breeders told me about diapteron that the temperature don't have to be in lower 70'ies as long as the oxygen level is ok. The problem, according to him, is that when temp rise the ox goes out the door. He use oxydators to solve this little problem. Have you the same experience?
I also want to know if some one have something for sale? I had a couple of D. cyanostictum LEC 94/3 but the heat took them out (or low ox rate?)
Regards!
ps. nice to meet someone else who's diapteronatic! ds.
Ricard Hulteke
Sweden
Nice to meet you Ricard. Regards from the USA I have the very same location! D.cyanostictum LEC 94/3 I also have found that O2 may be a big factor. I use degassing filters that saturate the water with oxygen. I currently am breeding and rearing my LEC in 76 f water it warm up more as the summer hits here in hot steamy Florida. I am very happy to discuss Diapterons I would love to hear more of your experiences. Welcome to this very friendly forum all the people here are very nice and hope to hear more from you.
Dave
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