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F. batesii Re Wet [by sbinder]

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:59:57 -0000

West African Killies:: F. batesii Re Wet
Hi All,
What is the normal incubation period for the eggs of this fish? Has a re dry of the peat and wetting in 2 weeks proved to be worthwhile?
Regards,

Sandy

Re: Infusoria culturing [by bcooper]

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:01:37 -0000

Foods & Feeding:: Infusoria culturing
Presumably hung up in customs. They can be very slow. For the 2009 convention we had a box sent from Europe by International Express. They got to NY in 2 days then sat in customs for a week. Nothing we could do or say seemed to be able to shift it. In fact, they could not even find it. It seems that items surface when they surface. We lost a number of the fish, unfortunately.

If the package is identified as containing fish eggs, customs might involve Fish and Wildlife. You are supposed to get them inspected.

Barry

Re: Nothobranchius rachovii [by scottdavis]

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:03:54 -0000

African Annuals:: Nothobranchius rachovii
You are aiming at one of the icons in the hobby. :) If you are a pretty experienced hobbyist or have kept other killies, go for them. If you are pretty new to both the tropical fish hobby and to killies, you might try a run with gardneri eggs or something of that sort first. If you have raised fry and hatched bbs (baby brine shrimp) and done well with those fry, assuming that you keep the water clean and consistently warmish (76-78 F...) you will very probably do well with the "racs."

You may get a message from someone off list. I hope that you do. However this site is modestly used and the traffic may not include someone who is currently keeping N. rachovii.

I looked at the last few AKA F&Es (Fish and Eggs Listings) and was shocked at how no one there seems to be keeping racs.

Still if I were you I would look for an AKA affiliate club (check the link above), contact them, attend a meeting and ask around. Or just ask their contact person.
See the link at the top of this page.

I would also check the F&E listing archives (over in the column to the left on this page). One might also look down the pages in this forum for mention of N. rachovii in

Affiliate Club Auction News

Show Results

One even might look through articles on this site or in AKA publications. Check the JAKA Index, again listed to the left on this page.

If you are an AKA member, submit a request also to the Fish and Eggs listing.

Try the classifieds on this page too. Maybe...

Another possibility is to post a request (a freebie) with Killie Trader. See
http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/killietrader

Include generally where you are from: ie northern Illinois, USA.

If you try www.aquabid.com be careful doing business overseas. Insist that the eggs you are purchasing have been laid & collected within the last month. The probability is that they will have gone through fewer of their developmental stages or diapauses and will be more durable.

Otherwise they may never hatch.

Don't have your vender label the package live fish or fish eggs. "Keep at room temperature" may be ok.

The US fish and Wildlife people have decided that a foreign shipment of more that seven fish is a commercial shipment. One is then asked to have an import/export permit ($100), fill out paperwork, get them inspected (about $135). Not doing this may get one fined and the shipment will be confiscated. If the fish are lucky, they may get sent to a public aquarium.

The Chicago port of entry F&WL people have concluded that eggs should be counted and inspected the same way. (I can't wait until they x-ray guppies and count the embryos.) Two individual are supposed to have been fined $300 and $1000 for labeling their packages and having the temerity to bring killie eggs into the country as has been done here and around the world for almost 60 years.

Agencies like the F&W in this economy have been asked to charge inspection rates that pay for the process. A decade ago they inspected club shipment gratis, just doing their job to see that no endangered fishes or dangerous/invasive exotics were included in the shipment.

Understanding how tight financial resources are for everyone these days, I grudgingly agree that inspections of fish should be paid for.

But one doesn't know where this process will end. This fall local high school student's parents were asked to include $1000 per student in the student fees if the kids wished to be in the band. I can imagining soon dialing 911 and hearing a recorded voice answering, "checking your credit card ceiling."

Re: Notho egg incubation times [by lwaybright]

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:05:32 -0000

African Annuals:: Notho egg incubation times
I usually acelerate the development by using 28*C water and high humidity.
It has some drawbacks like reduce hatching window and sometimes more belly sliders but the latter problem has never been bad enough to not use the acelerated method to me.

I like acriflavine as an antifungal/bateriostat but I have never used it with annual eggs. I use it with many SA Dwarf Cichlids but at the earliest stage I can detect embryological development I immediately change to water from the breeding tank. Prolonged exposure of the eggs to acriflavine definitely increases teratogenic side effects.

Re: SKLIK 2010 Results [by scottdavis]

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:41:52 -0000

Show Results:: SKLIK 2010 Results
Go to Google.com and click on "more". Then click on "even more". Continue down the page in the second column until you get to "translate". I have to click on it a couple of times to bring it up - don't know why.

It may be worth your while to just bookmark that page for future reference.

http://translate.google.com/?hl=en#ru|en|

One can highlight a passage, copy it and paste it in the blank or just type/copy in the URL as is.
http://www.killiadictos.com/descargas/SKLIK2010.pdf

One then selects a language and clicks on translate. I got lucky and guessed Russian on that one.

Sometimes internet translators encounter figures of speech and present some pretty outrageous nonsense. However one can often get the gist of a message, show show results, articles, forum comments, Facebook posts and other items.

I was pleasantly surprised to happen upon a Japanese group's site on Crypts, actually part of a larger site on aquatic plants. Sometimes one has to be a little creative in guessing what the translated word is. Script on that site's translation is Crypt for instance. But I was pleased by what a person could learn from

http://www.rva.jp/plants/cryptocoryne ... tocoryne_intro_sasaki.htm

Re: N.korthause RK red - N.hengstleri MZL 2005 -14 Nossoro [by lwaybright]

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:41:20 -0000

African Annuals:: N.korthause RK red - N.hengstleri MZL 2005 -14 Nossoro
Many Notho eggs may be incubated at 28*C and hatched in 6 weeks at the other extreme. The drawbacks to accelerated incubation are at least two fold. 1. You may hatch more belly sliders and 2. The window of hatching opportunity becomes smaller and it is easy to wait a week or two too long and get very few fry.

Re: Rivulus iridescens vs. Rivulus christinae [by lwaybright]

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:18:00 -0000

South American Killies:: Rivulus iridescens vs. Rivulus christinae
Not a relevant response but I saw 12 Rivulus iridescens eggs listed by a French breeder on aquabid and the starting price was $100. That is the most expensive price for killiefish eggs i have ever seen. Appears to be a pretty species but
not for that price!

Re: sympsonichthys suzarti [by lwaybright]

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:11:57 -0000

South American Killies:: sympsonichthys suzarti
I saw photos of S. suzarti in aquabid.com egg listings.

Re: Simp. filimentosus [by lwaybright]

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:08:26 -0000

South American Killies:: Simp. filimentosus
Many of fish found in the Pantanal are found throughout this large wetlands so I don't know why some of these could not occur in the small portion of it that extends into bolivia but i would think they would be restricted to the SE corner of Bolivia where a portion of the panatanal at high water manages to flood. But Killies get transplanted by odd means like mud sticking to the legs of wading water birds so it would not be that great of a stretch of the imagination for some to have reached beyond the limits of the Pantanal.

Re: Pterolebias bokermanni [by lwaybright]

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:00:01 -0000

South American Killies:: Pterolebias bokermanni
Good question and is related to another thread. I would like to know the same information.