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Title: Longest incubation of eggs out of water? Post by Ryan Clinton on Mar 29th, 2018 at 12:24pm
After seeing so many questions in general about the minimum/suggested time to incubate annual killifish eggs in peat, I got curious about the opposite:
What is the longest that you've incubated eggs out of water and still hatched out viable fry? |
Title: Re: Longest incubation of eggs out of water? Post by Tyrone Genade on Apr 16th, 2018 at 10:13pm
This varies from species to species.
The most impressive for me was a packet of N. guentheri peat which was 6 months old and bone dry. I wouldn't have bothered to wet the peat if I didn't see eyed-up eggs in it. N. furzeri regularly go 9 to 12 months. The most impressive story I've heard involves a packet of Pronothobranchiys seymouri that laid behind a shelf in a fishroom for 26 years and yielded viable fry. I have a packet of korthausae eggs that is now about 9 months in incubation. I kept it in my office draw (66-68 oF). No sign of development. Same for some cardinalis eggs which are now about 6 months old. If you keep the eggs below 68 oF they seem to go into diapause I and remain there. For how long, I don't know... yet. The critical thing is to make sure they don't dry out. That is what was so amazing about the guentheri eggs. The peat was bone dry. |
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