I was inspired by @Back in the fold 's adventure with annual Nothobranchius, and by reading Bela Nagy's recent book on hunting for Nothos in East Africa. So I bought some eggs, and got ... 2 males. The wetting of the bag of peat gave a few other fry that looked wrong and died fast.
The eggs had come from a breeder in Holland, so travel could have affected things. I contacted him and got some more of these Nothobranchius palmqvisti.
Try one gave no hatch. I thought they were overdue, but redried the peat and tried again a month later, after the expected date for hatching written on the bag of peat. I was again rewarded with nada. Nothing. Zip.
I had gone through the peat looking for eggs to see how they were developing. The problem is my vision for tiny things in close is not great, and I don't have much experience with this type of fish breeding. I put the peat away for 6 weeks, and then being a sucker for punishment, tried yet again.
This time I have a hatch of about 10 fry - more robust than the previous ones, and foraging almost immediately. I think I'm in business here.
I'd almost given up, but I shouldn't have even considered that.
This is one of the first 2 males, all grown up.
The eggs had come from a breeder in Holland, so travel could have affected things. I contacted him and got some more of these Nothobranchius palmqvisti.
Try one gave no hatch. I thought they were overdue, but redried the peat and tried again a month later, after the expected date for hatching written on the bag of peat. I was again rewarded with nada. Nothing. Zip.
I had gone through the peat looking for eggs to see how they were developing. The problem is my vision for tiny things in close is not great, and I don't have much experience with this type of fish breeding. I put the peat away for 6 weeks, and then being a sucker for punishment, tried yet again.
This time I have a hatch of about 10 fry - more robust than the previous ones, and foraging almost immediately. I think I'm in business here.
I'd almost given up, but I shouldn't have even considered that.
This is one of the first 2 males, all grown up.
