New issue of JAKA: Nothobranchius

[Innesfan]

The latest issue of JAKA arrived in the mail today and it's a Nothobranchius issue. Every article. And as is to be expected, some dazzling photos. Here are a few. There are many more.

 

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I was particularly thrilled to receive my copy this weekend . It hits at exactly the right time for me . I was particularly interested in the article “ Getting Started with Nothos “ by Bob DeKeulenaere . His description of the mob spawning method of multiple females and males guarding their own spawning jar is close to what I did with my guentherii and I got the results he talks about . Indeed , everything he writes I have seen with my own eyes with little variation . I didn’t cull my fry in the gruesome manner he did his though . Today I took the bulk of them to my favorite LFS and kept a nice bunch for myself to raise my next batch . They are only eleven weeks old and fully sexually mature .

 

[Innesfan]

Did you notice the typo on the cover for the "Getting Started.." article?

Glad your LFS took the fish. Despite all my years in the hobby, culling is still something that makes me uncomfortable especially when it's just for population control.

 

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Did you notice the typo on the cover for the "Getting Started.." article?

Glad your LFS took the fish. Despite all my years in the hobby, culling is still something that makes me uncomfortable especially when it's just for population control.

Yes I did notice that typo . “ Grtting “ . As an old printer / pressman we were trained to spot those in case the proof reader missed one . A customer could refuse to take those and cost the company a reprint .
Culling is something I’m very careful to NOT have to do . I think we are doing the entire animal kingdom a grave wrong in how we care for our pets and farm animals . We feed them wrong and don’t take their reproduction into account . I was very glad the pet shop took my excess and that someone will be able to buy and appreciate a fish that may not have ever been seen in my town before . I’m the little kid that cried when I saw a baby guppy get eaten and I still get creeped out by it . But I must confess to having fed goldfish to piranhas I used to have . . . . once and once only . The memory still disturbs me and the royal chewing out I got from my Dad is still a vivid memory .