Well since I wrote that piece on the 12th, I had a request for some eggs from the Fundulopanchax oeseri GEMHS 2000-45 Bioko Island. So I was very happy to help and started to collect some eggs from the 15th, and this is what has happened so far.
15th - collected 14 eggs (all on sunken mops). 16th - collected 19 eggs (7 on floating mops, rest on sunken mops). 17th - removed 6 eggs that hsd turned white (not fertilised) and collected 20 eggs (only 7 again on floating mops).
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After no rain for nearly a month now here on the UK East Coast, I have run out of rainwater.
Except for my Aphanius Mento I have been diluting my very hard tapwater (400ppm) with 50% rainwater. I had not diluted it any more as I knew that rainwater availability could be a problem in this area. So I am now looking at installing a RO system to help me to improve things. Does anybody have any suggestions for good companies in the UK to supply one of these? I know that I have been very remiss in doing these daily blogs, but things have been very slow what with the lockdown for the Coronavirus.
Tonight though I wet a number of my containers for non-annual killifish where the eggs have been stored on top of a wet coir/peat mix which were collected around 29/2 to 6/3/20. Will let you know how things turn out tomorrow. 13/4/20 and have removed the following fry from the small containers and placed them into larger ones, along with some Java Moss and Ramshorn snails and started to feed a mix of newly hatched BBS and Banana Worms. 1. Fp lacustris - 1 fry 2. Fp oeseri - 11 + 13 = 24 fry (2 containers) 3. Fp gresensi - 5 fry 4. Fp marmoratus - 6 fry 5. Fp spoorenbergi - 7 fry (with some unhatched eggs still in the container) The water has been left in the incubation containers to see if anything else hatches over the next 2-3 days. At which stage the water will be drained off and the containers set up for collecting more eggs. 14/4/20 collected some more fry this evening, 1. Fp oeseri - 4 fry 2. Fp spoorenbergi - 2 fry (only 1 transferred as the other was hiding somewhere in the peat) |