at this time, can you tell me how your experiment is going, I noticed the pictures on your op Page and you got little babies everywhere it seems like. Thank you
Doc, I don't live on R2R. You only posted 30 minutes ago!No answer, I hope the virus didn't take Ron out. Bummer he will be missed
It's a long story. But this is it in a nut shell.
I had 3 rounds of babies in my old DT. I never saw spawning or deliveries, just new babies.
So about 3 months ago I set up a 16g RFA breeding tank with 30+ RFA (some probably to young or small to propagate). I had 3 spawns (2RFAs, 2 more RFAs and finally 1 last RFA) over 18 days. Curiously, each one 9 days after the one before it. And 37 days after that first spawn I got 3 babies. So 28 dyas after the 2nd spawn and 19 days after the 3rd spawn. I believe the first spawn was responsible and IMHO the gestation period seems to be 30 to 40 days... but that's just my experience.
We don't know why the crazy low birth number. I had a salinity issue before the spawning events. It could be that sparked a premature spawning? Or it may have damaged the sperm or egg viability?
So I'll continue on.