Well Poppas Jayhawks have spawned again (on the silicone) in the 40B!
These two are solid pair as I believe this is their third time for me!
I have never followed the rules completely but my passion and patience for these guys has "let me" keep them isolated from all others still!
My longest QT unless we count species only tanks that are permanent QTS IMO?
I think I should move the other 6 today and see how the hatch turns out?
Gillie mentioned temp or water parameters having influence on sex of fry in another thread,so I wonder how to skew this intentionally?
It has been found that both temp and water hardness can skew ratios one way or the other.
I kind of think the yellow rams were a result of the water hardness,lack of or the make up of my remineralising and think many of them turned out to be huge males.
I screw with getting my water the way I want I think enough already so maybe lowering the temp?
I keep my rams @ 82-84 in all tanks.
I am thinking that 50-80 TDS is the magic range as I have not had a bad batch of eggs since lowering from 120-140.
I use ;calcium chloride(kent turbo calcium),baking soda,epsom salt to remineralise my ro water.
I mentioned that one of the LFS in my area is loaded with females and said they can't get males from their supplier(segrest farms).
Is Fla. water really that different?
I find it hard to believe they(segrest) put any special effort forward in their breeding(if they even breed their own).
Also as mentioned I believe I got the water better now and have a tray of eggs ready to be pulled from a pair I was ready to add back to community group for 'lack of action'!
Their first spawn I believe(in breeding tank) and they are being champion parents taking turns tending the eggs.
I just need to pull eggs until I have enough fry to let a pair try to raise the fry,even to free swimming.
This method used to work so good for me but has not ended well for free swimmers in some time.
For now I will keep practicing the artificial hatch method.