Well it is six weeks approx. since I have entered anything onto the website, but have been very busy in the garden and the fishroom (but that I will discuss in a later blog). Anyway at the end of May I purchased 15+ eggs of Aphanius mento Zengen from a good killifish breeder in Spain. I started to get worried when nothing had arrived after a week, but on the 8th day they came safely through the post. Well packed and and 18 eggs were sent, with 3 showing a bit of cloudyness but no fungus, so I had my expected 15 viable eggs (see pictures below). Well I used the old technique to add some previously prepared water (my hard tapwater plus some salt and epson salts). This old technique uses a strand of wool to slowly add drop by drop the water from one container to another. It is said that "a picture is worth a thousand words", so look below to see how this was done. The first fry hatched yesterday, 6th June, which was removed to a separate container with the same quality of water, and now I am waiting for the rest to hatch.
I will keep you updated. I am hoping that when the fry are a reasonable size, and I can transfer them to a container in the garden for the rest of the summer.
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