While I’m admittedly not an expert on Nothos, maybe you should elaborate more on exactly what you are looking for.  Obviously it’s something that Brian Watters professed or used so please expand your request and good luck.

Brian Watters used a method where he left annual eggs in the peat spawning containers in tanks for an extended period. Supposedly this caused the eggs to go in a prolonged state of diapause so they could be hatched out much later. In other words annuals with an egg incubation period of lets say 3-4 months could be stretched out to 1-2 years with no ill effects. I am looking for more detailed info on his method.

Hello,

An exhaustive search of my emails has not provided the email I was looking for where Prof. Watters described his method of Notho breeding and peat harvest.

If memory serves (a big if), he would harvest peat after long intervals in the aquarium. He would also use large volumes of peat so the peat can become quite anoxic. In theory this results in the eggs doing into deep diapause and the eggs will develop over a much longer time span. By this method a fish like korthausae where eggs can develop in 6 to 12 weeks will now take 4 months to 18 months! The big benefit of this method is that you don’t have rapid development and end up being inundated with fry; also that because the eggs incubate longer you can maintain more species in the long run.

I hope that helps.

Thanks Brian, great explanation.  It’s good to hear from you again.

Thanks Brian, that’s what I have been doing also lately. Sorry for the late response, had some health issues.