Not the best time in the world at the moment, but I hope that you all stay safe and isolate yourself from the affects of the virus on yourself and your families. A lot of us killifish enthusiasts are elderly, so may feel the affects more than the younger generations, so take care.
I think that by the end, as long as I don't get very sick, then my garden should be completely weed free and my tanks all looking pristine (but maybe not), as all activities away from the house are being suspended for the foreseeable future. Maybe I could also write on here more often, but that could be taking it a bit too far. Keep well.
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Today I collected over 20 eggs of Fp gardneri lacustris so this species seem to be doing well in my fishroom after a very slow start, as I now have adults, fry and eggs in storage.
Also collected a few eggs of Fp spoorenbergi and Fp oeseri though have lots of these in the fishroom at the moment. Hopefully, when the BKA website has the online "Egg and Fish" list up and running I will be able to offer some of these to BKA members that are interested. Before I left the fishroom yesterday I caught a pair Fp marmoratus Mbonge and put them into a smaller tank on their own, with a sunken mop.
Now 24 hours later, I have collected 10 eggs from the mop and placed onto damp peat, so it is early days yet, but it looks as if the adults in the main tanks are eating most of the eggs that are laid, and maybe just leaving the newest ones for me to collect. Day 2 was not so successful, as only collected 1 egg. Plus 1 egg fungused on top of the peat that was removed. Day 3 missed. Day 4 a bit better but still only 4 eggs collected. All other eggs were fine. Though 14 eggs is a lot better than I have previously experienced with multiple pairs in a larger tank. So maybe I will isolate a few more pairs, as I have a some spare small tanks that will be okay to house a pair for a few days. Look for a future post on the outcome from this. Day 5 gave 6 eggs. Day 6 gave 5 eggs, but 2 white/fungussed eggs were removed from on top of the peat Day 7 another 5 eggs collected. So that is enough for this container, 1 weeks worth of eggs, which should be ready to hatch in 4-5 weeks. So sometime around mid-April. Well I wet some more eggs yesterday that were stored on damp peat, and today have a number of fry of Fp gardneri lacustris and Chromaphyosemion volcanum Ekondo Titi CB3SR 07/21 both of which are very welcomed as the number of adults I have are limited. Therefore it would have been very easy to have lost either species in my fishroom.
So for the non-annuals, as well as the two lots of fry already mentioned, I have young fry of Fp spoorenbergi and Fp oeseri GEMHS 2000-45 Bioko Island plus a small number of Fp marmoratus Mbonge. The latter being most worrying as I have only been able to collect a small number of eggs even though I have 25-30 adults in the tank, evenly split between males and females. The other species that is worrying is Scriptaphyosemion guignardi Mamou as again I am not collecting many eggs, and the M:F ratio in the tank is approx. 1:4 which cannot be helping. In the 4-5 years that I have had this species I never used to collect eggs, as there were always small fry swimming with the adults but recently that seems to have stopped. Not sure what happened, as I do not believe that I have changed anything in their setup. So new fry from the eggs I wet are,
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