Subj : Mama Mbuna Releases 11th Spawn
To   : Jeff Snyder
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Jul 23 2010 02:16 am

 JS> Between yesterday and today, Mama Mbuna has released her 11th
 JS> spawn. I have no idea how many fry she released, being as I was not
 JS> sitting in front of my aquarium at the time of the event; however,
 JS> during the past hour or so, I have been able to spot two or three
 JS> of the newly-released fry. As with female #2's recent fry release,
 JS> I don't have high expectations for survivors from this release
 JS> either. There are now simply too many hungry fish in the tank. One
 JS> thing is for certain. With so many females now in the tank -- who
 JS> are all Mama Mbuna's children -- there is sure to be some
 JS> undetermined number of fry in the tank at all times.

/me thinks i'd be setting up a special birthing tank for them to spit their 
young'uns out in and then moving them back to the main tank whils't the babies 
grow up enough to survive in the main tank... what would it take? a 20 or two? 
;)

i've done the same with corydorus' some 4 or 5 years ago... that is, until one 
of my sons grabbed my main female for his 10 tank and let an algea bloom take 
over :(

)\/(ark

 
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